Columbia alumni rip up diplomas to protest activist Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/columbia-alumni-diplomas-mahmoud-khalil #USuniversities #Israel-Gazawar #MahmoudKhalil #USimmigration #USnews
Columbia Prof. Breaks Down the Mahmoud Khalil Case (w/ Katherine Franke)..#MahmoudKhalil https://youtu.be/c-guB121R6Y?si=f9cpwNXCZeSitXtP
#US must immediately release Palestinian rights-activist #MahmoudKhalil and stop threats of #deportation against foreign residents, say #UN experts | OHCHR
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/03/us-must-immediately-release-palestinian-rights-activist-mahmoud-khalil-and
Interview: "The Encampments”: New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests
Mahmoud Khalil, who was chosen by the university as a liaison between the administration & students, has since been detained by immigration enforcement.
“Columbia has gone to every extent to try to censor this movement" ~producer Munir Atalla
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/28/the_encampments_columbia_university_documentary
#trump #fascism #MahmoudKhalil #uspol #TheEncampments #columbia #racism #islamophobia .
#ICE Got Warrants Under “#FalsePretenses,” Claims #ColumbiaStudent Targeted Over #GazaProtests
The law behind the warrants bars concealment of people in the country illegally, yet the students were legal residents living on campus.
by Shawn Musgrave, March 28 2025
"Earlier this month, while hunting for #ColumbiaUniversity students to deport over their ties to #Gaza protests, the #Trump administration convinced a federal judge to sign off on search warrants for two students’ dorm rooms — then raided the residences with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
"As details about the warrants have emerged, however, so have allegations that federal agents misled the court and secured the warrants under 'false pretenses,' as one of the students whose room was searched, #YunseoChung, claimed in a lawsuit challenging her deportation.
"The warrants were predicated on probable cause that Columbia was 'harboring' students who were in the country illegally, court filings indicate. Chung, however, is a lawful permanent resident, notwithstanding the Trump administration’s efforts to deport her based on her arrest and citation at a Gaza sit-in. She has lived in the U.S. since she was 7 years old.
"'The basis for this entire operation is constitutionally invalid.'
"'The idea that they went before a federal magistrate judge and said, ‘We have to search Ms. Chung’s residence for evidence of Columbia harboring her’ — that shows they’re willing to lie to a judge,' said Nathan Yaffe, an immigration attorney.
"Yaffe represents both Chung and the other Columbia student who was targeted by the search warrants, #RanjaniSrinivasan, who left the country in mid-March.
"Most of the materials relating to the search warrants remain under seal in federal court, and Columbia declined to comment on them, citing student privacy protections. ICE did not respond to The Intercept’s questions about the warrants.
"'If the government falsified information to get the warrant, that is its own bundle of serious problems,' said Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, an attorney at #HumanRightsFirst who also represents Chung. 'But even if not, the basis for this entire operation is constitutionally invalid.'"
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/28/ice-warrants-columbia-students-gaza-protests/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/ruFDs
#MahmoudKhalil #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri #MomodouTaal #ResistICE #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #Project2025 #ProjectEsther #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurdReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism
Usa: liberare Mahmoud Khalil / Amnesty International
Il sig. Khalil è stato preso di mira per il suo ruolo nelle proteste pro-Palestina, ma ha solo esercitato i suoi diritti alla libertà di espressione e di riunione pacifica. L’08/03/25 le autorità USA lo hanno arrestato senza accusarlo di reati.
Il sig. Khalil risiede regolarmente negli Stati Uniti, si è laureato alla Columbia University ed è sposato con una statunitense.
Firmate tutti, svp
Les avocats d’un étudiant palestinien dans le viseur de Trump dénoncent une affaire «kafkaïenne»
Les motifs du placement en détention, début mars de #MahmoudKhalil, jeune diplômé de l’université Columbia, ont été débattus, vendredi 28 mars, devant un tribunal du New Jersey. Ses avocats, qui s’efforcent de le faire libérer, mettent en cause les dérives de l’administration Trump.
Interview: "The Encampments”: New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests
Mahmoud Khalil, who was chosen by the university as a liaison between the administration & students, has since been detained by immigration enforcement.
“Columbia has gone to every extent to try to censor this movement" ~producer Munir Atalla
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/28/the_encampments_columbia_university_documentary
#trump #fascism #MahmoudKhalil #uspol #TheEncampments #columbia #racism #islamophobia .
‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/ice-detention-centers-immigration-asylum #Trumpadministration #USimmigration #MahmoudKhalil #Mississippi #USpolitics #Louisiana #Worldnews #USnews #Texas
#PineAndRoses #NewEngland #DSA protests #ICEDetentions
Posted by #MaineDSA and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025
"Last week, the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine organized a protest of ICE detention of #ColumbiaUniversity student leader #MahmoudKhalil. Since then, ICE has operated as the #Trump Administration’s #SecretPolice, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to #FreeSpeech and protesting the U.S.-sponsored #genocide in #Gaza. The list includes #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri, #MomodouTaal, #RanjaniSrinivasan, as well as #farmworker organizer #AlfredoJuarezZerefino. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember #WesPelletier spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.
New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk
"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts.
"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 #ICEArrests in Massachusetts, as well as the #doxxing of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website #CanaryMission.
"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic #CivilRights in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful #PoliticalActivists or undocumented #migrants seeking safety, jobs, and a better life.
"We must stand up against this brazen attack on #Palestine, #FreeSpeech, and the #RightToProtest.
"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of #imperialism.
"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights.
In Solidarity,
#BerkshiresDSA, #BostonDSA, #BostonUniversityYDSA, #CapeCodDSA, #ConnecticutDSA, #MaineDSA, #NortheasternYDSA, #RiverValleyDSA, #SimmonsYDSA, #SouthernNewHampshireDSA, #UpperValleyDSA, #WorcesterDSA"
Source:
https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #Resistance #District13 #District13Resists #Fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism
3 Yale profs ditch school for U of T amid Trump education crackdown
One professor said Columbia University's decision to follow a series of government directives, including a crackdown on student protests, played a role in his decision to leave.
#education #politics #Trending #USNews #ColumbiaUniversity #MahmoudKhalil
https://globalnews.ca/news/11103251/yale-toronto-trump/
3 Yale profs ditch school for U of T amid Trump education crackdown
One professor said Columbia University's decision to follow a series of government directives, including a crackdown on student protests, played a role in his decision to leave.
#education #politics #Trending #USNews #ColumbiaUniversity #MahmoudKhalil
https://globalnews.ca/news/11103251/yale-toronto-trump/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVYd_CWiuv8
'TheEncampments: New #Film on #MahmoudKhalil & #ColumbiaStudents Who Sparked #GazaProtests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5wuFrVgZQE
#StatusCoupNews LIVE #PeoplePower
#FreeMahmoudKhalil NOW!!
The protest in outside the federal courthouse in #Newark #NJ
#Immigration ofcls also detained #Palestinian activist & #Columbia graduate #MahmoudKhalil – a #GreenCard holder – earlier this month in front of his pregnant wife, Noor, a US citizen. Other students detained by immigration ofcls include #BadarSuri, an Indian postdoctoral fellow at #Georgetown University, after #DHS accused him of having ties to Hamas.
#FreeLelo #ICE Detained Activist Farmworker Alfredo Juarez Zeferino in #MountVernon #Washington on Tuesday morning.
He was initially held in a secret ICE facility in Ferndale, WA, then transferred to ICE facility in #tacoma WA.
#AlfredoJuarezZeferino is Washingtons' #MahmoudKhalil
#Troublemakers
Folks in Somerville, MA. I hope to see you at City Hall soon.
US: #NewJersey school slammed for 'anti-#Palestinian' assignment on activist #MahmoudKhalil
Educational advocates and parents said the student project was an attempt to manipulate students with false information
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Azad Essa
Published date: 27 March 2025 20:05 GMT
"...in the prompts provided by the teacher, Khalil is described as a supporter of terrorism; is accused of having celebrated the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023 on southern Israel; and students who took part in the protests at Columbia University are described as "Hamas students". "
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-new-jersey-school-slammed-anti-palestinian-assignment-paper
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
"Columbia student #MahmoudKhalil remains in the hellhole of a notoriously brutal private prison in #Louisiana for daring to speak out against the #Israeli slaughter of Gazans.
And #Columbia student #YunseoChung, who’s been a legal permanent resident of the #US since she was 7 years old, is in hiding while her lawyers sue to prevent her arrest for also speaking up about the violence #Netanyahu is inflicting on people in #Gaza."
https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74
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