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  1. I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with #Trump
    Rashid Khalidi

    from #TheGuardian #Guardian
    Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

    Columbia’s capitulation has turned a #university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in #Gaza, a crime in which #Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #DueProcessForAll
    #StopTheDeportations
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Israel #Palestine #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #news #press @palestine

  2. Judge says US effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is likely unconstitutional

    from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
    By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
    Updated 6:58 PM EDT, May 28, 2025

    NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said the #Trump administration’s effort to deport #MahmoudKhalil because of his pro-#Palestinian activism at #ColumbiaUniversity likely violates the #Constitution.

    In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil — that his beliefs may pose a threat to U.S. foreign policy — could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement.

    apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
    #NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
    #ReturnKilmarAlbertoGarcia
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics
    #news #press @palestine

  3. #Georgetown scholar recalls terror and ‘mockery of due process’ in immigration jail

    from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
    By OLIVIA DIAZ and BEN FINLEY
    Updated 6:34 PM EDT, May 23, 2025

    "Then Khan Suri had to use the plane’s bathroom. He said the guards refused to unshackle his wrists.

    “They said, ‘No, you have to use it like this or do it in your trousers,’” #KhanSuri recalled of the trip, taking him to a Louisiana detention center. “They were behaving as if we were animals.”"

    apnews.com/article/badar-khan-

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression #ICE
    #NoDeportationForBadarKhanSuri
    #NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
    #NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw #GeorgetownUniversity
    #BadarKhanSuri #Palestine
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  4. Graduates Boo #Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught Year

    Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, noted the absence of #MahmoudKhalil, a graduate who continues to be detained by immigration authorities.

    from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
    [gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]

    By Sharon Otterman
    May 21, 2025 Updated 4:08 p.m. ET

    "The celebrations at smaller graduation ceremonies on Tuesday were also punctuated by anger directed at Columbia administrators. At the graduation for Columbia College, the university’s main undergraduate school, some students repeatedly interrupted Ms. Shipman’s remarks with loud jeers. At one point, they chanted “Free Mahmoud.”"

    nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregio

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
    #NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Gaza
    #news #press @palestine

  5. Freed from #ICE custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers

    from #AssociatedPress #APNews
    By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
    Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025

    "NEW YORK (#AP) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the #Palestinian activist #MohsenMahdawi strode across the graduation stage at #ColumbiaUniversity on Monday morning, savoring a moment the #Trump administration had fought to make impossible.

    Draped in a keffiyeh, Mahdawi, 34, paused to listen to the swell of cheers from his fellow graduates. Then he joined a vigil just outside #Columbia’s gates, raising a photograph of his classmate Mahmoud Khalil, who remains in federal custody."

    apnews.com/article/columbia-un

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
    #NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  6. In #Graduation Speech, #NYU Student Condemns U.S.-backed #Israeli War in Gaza

    University Withholds Student’s Diploma, in Latest Flashpoint over Free Speech on U.S. Campuses

    from #WorldOutlook
    May 16, 2025

    [contains transcript of his speech]

    “We commend Logan for using this opportunity to demand an end to the bloodshed in #Gaza,” said Afaf Nasher, executive director of CAIR-NY, a Muslim civil rights organization. “We demand that NYU formally release Logan’s diploma, which he rightfully earned, and suspend any disciplinary proceedings against him.””

    world-outlook.com/2025/05/16/i

    #StopGazaGenocide
    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
    #NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  7. #Indian academic held over pro-#Palestinian views released from #ICE jail

    Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in March

    from #TheGuardian #Guardian
    Marina Dunbar and agency
    Wed 14 May 2025 17.47 EDT

    "US district judge Patricia Giles ... said that the ruling was effective immediately with no conditions and no bond. She added that #KhanSuri’s release was “in the public interest to disrupt the chilling effect on protected speech” during the hearing."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
    #NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
    #NoDeportationForBadarKhanSuri
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  8. Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, released from Louisiana jail

    PhD student arrested in March for political speech released on Friday after federal judge’s ruling

    from #TheGuardian #Guardian
    Maya Yang and Noa Yachot in New York and agencies
    Fri 9 May 2025 19.32 EDT

    "#RümeysaÖztürk, the #Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech, has been released from the Louisiana detention center where she was being held in what she and her lawyers had argued was a breach of her constitutional rights."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  9. Court orders detained #Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to #Vermont

    Lawyers say the Turkish national, who has been held in a Louisiana Ice center for two weeks, was illegally detained

    from #TheGuardian #Guardian
    Sam Levine and agencies
    Wed 7 May 2025 12.35 EDT

    "A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a #Turkish #TuftsUniversity student from a #Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated.

    A judicial panel ... ruled in the case of #RümeysaÖztürk after lawyers representing her and the US justice department presented arguments at a hearing on Tuesday."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  10. #Democratic lawmakers call for release of #Tufts student from #ICE detention

    Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley exhort authorities to free Rümeysa Öztürk, calling her treatment ‘repression’

    from #TheGuardian #Guardian
    Anna Betts
    Fri 25 Apr 2025 13.02 EDT

    A group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald #Trump administration to immediately release the #TuftsUniversity graduate student #RümeysaÖztürk, praised her “unwavering spirit” and warned that the White House is engaging in “repression”.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
    #ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  11. Michigan's #Democratic AG Under Fire After Armed Agents Raid Homes of Palestine Defenders

    "We are totally convinced that, but for their viewpoints, these students would not have been targeted," said one attorney.

    from #CommonDreams
    Brett Wilkins
    Apr 23, 2025

    " Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed their way into the #Michigan homes of pro-#Palestine student organizers on Wednesday in what the state attorney general's office said was a vandalism probe—but critics called an attack on dissent against #Israel's genocidal assault on #Gaza. "

    commondreams.org/news/michigan

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
    #ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #StopGazaGenocide
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics #DanaNessel #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  12. ‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails

    Delegation visits jails where #MahmoudKhalil and #RümeysaÖztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ #Trump

    from #TheGuardian #Guardian
    Dani Anguiano
    Tue 22 Apr 2025 20.31 EDT

    "#Öztürk, a #TuftsUniversity PhD student, and #Khalil, a graduate of #Columbia, have been detained for more than a month since US immigration authorities took them into custody. Neither have been accused of criminal conduct and are being held in violation of their constitutional rights, members of the delegation said."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
    #ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #politics
    #news #press

  13. Detained #Turkish student must be transferred from #Louisiana for hearing, judge rules

    #RümeysaÖztürk was taken by #immigration officials over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for op-ed

    from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
    via #TheGuardian
    Fri 18 Apr 2025 18.40 EDT

    "A federal judge on Friday ordered that a #Turkish #TuftsUniversity student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana be brought to #Vermont by 1 May for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

    #Release Rümeysa Öztürk
    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #DefendRuleOfLaw
    #USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  14. Harvard University punished with $2b funding freeze for defying Trump

    Freeze followed a letter sent on Monday to the Trump administration saying it rejects the government’s demands

    from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
    By Syma Mohammed
    Published date: 15 April 2025 21:30 BST

    "The freeze, representing 35.9 percent of #Harvard's $6.4bn operating expenses, immediately followed a letter on Monday from #HarvardUniversity lawyers to the #Trump administration, stating that it rejected the government’s demands.

    The letter, issued by Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and LLP King & Spalding LLP, said that “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”"

    middleeasteye.net/news/harvard

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #FreeMahdawi
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #USA #US #USPolitics
    #news #press @palestine

  15. 'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': #ICE Arrests Palestinian #Columbia Protest Leader

    "He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech," said Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyer.

    from #CommonDreams
    Julia Conley
    Apr 14, 2025

    "A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group #Betar named #ColumbiaUniversity student #MohsenMahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of #Palestinian rights defenders, #Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen. "

    commondreams.org/news/mohsen-m

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
    #repression
    #FreeMahdawi
    #StopTheDeportations
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  16. US: #TuftsUniversity student detained for pro-#Palestine views transferred to Louisiana

    The #Turkish national's lawyer said she had been moved to the southern state but a judge ordered her to remain in Massachusetts

    from #MiddleEastEye #MEE

    By Syma Mohammed
    Published date: 26 March 2025 21:18 GMT

    "Masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) agents approached and physically restrained the #Tufts University doctoral student while on the street in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Wednesday before taking her into custody for “pro-Palestine” views. She is being held at the South Louisiana Processing Center."

    middleeasteye.net/news/tufts-u

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #repression
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
    #SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
    #EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
    #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
    #USA #US #USPolitics
    #news #press @palestine

  17. #Georgetown Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by #ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens

    #BadarKhanSuri was detained by #DHS agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-#Israel groups.

    from #DropSiteNews
    Archit and Murtaza Hussain
    Mar 19

    #Suri's arrest comes after an exceptionally public media campaign targeting his wife, #MaphezeSaleh, by pro-Israel groups. Saleh, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian background, is the daughter of #AhmedYousef, a former political advisor to the #Hamas-led government in the #Gaza Strip, after the group gained control there in 2006. #Yousef has been a writer and commentator on Hamas in recent years for major Western media publications, including the New York Times and The Guardian.

    dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown-

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #repression
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
    #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
    #USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  18. #Georgetown Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by #ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens

    #BadarKhanSuri was detained by #DHS agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-#Israel groups.

    from #DropSiteNews
    Archit and Murtaza Hussain
    Mar 19

    #Suri's arrest comes after an exceptionally public media campaign targeting his wife, #MaphezeSaleh, by pro-Israel groups. Saleh, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian background, is the daughter of #AhmedYousef, a former political advisor to the #Hamas-led government in the #Gaza Strip, after the group gained control there in 2006. #Yousef has been a writer and commentator on Hamas in recent years for major Western media publications, including the New York Times and The Guardian.

    dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown-

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #repression
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
    #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
    #USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  19. #Georgetown Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by #ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens

    #BadarKhanSuri was detained by #DHS agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-#Israel groups.

    from #DropSiteNews
    Archit and Murtaza Hussain
    Mar 19

    #Suri's arrest comes after an exceptionally public media campaign targeting his wife, #MaphezeSaleh, by pro-Israel groups. Saleh, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian background, is the daughter of #AhmedYousef, a former political advisor to the #Hamas-led government in the #Gaza Strip, after the group gained control there in 2006. #Yousef has been a writer and commentator on Hamas in recent years for major Western media publications, including the New York Times and The Guardian.

    dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown-

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #repression
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
    #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
    #USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  20. #Georgetown Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by #ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens

    #BadarKhanSuri was detained by #DHS agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-#Israel groups.

    from #DropSiteNews
    Archit and Murtaza Hussain
    Mar 19

    #Suri's arrest comes after an exceptionally public media campaign targeting his wife, #MaphezeSaleh, by pro-Israel groups. Saleh, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian background, is the daughter of #AhmedYousef, a former political advisor to the #Hamas-led government in the #Gaza Strip, after the group gained control there in 2006. #Yousef has been a writer and commentator on Hamas in recent years for major Western media publications, including the New York Times and The Guardian.

    dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown-

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #repression
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
    #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
    #USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine

  21. #Georgetown Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by #ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens

    #BadarKhanSuri was detained by #DHS agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-#Israel groups.

    from #DropSiteNews
    Archit and Murtaza Hussain
    Mar 19

    #Suri's arrest comes after an exceptionally public media campaign targeting his wife, #MaphezeSaleh, by pro-Israel groups. Saleh, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian background, is the daughter of #AhmedYousef, a former political advisor to the #Hamas-led government in the #Gaza Strip, after the group gained control there in 2006. #Yousef has been a writer and commentator on Hamas in recent years for major Western media publications, including the New York Times and The Guardian.

    dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown-

    #DefendAcademicFreedom
    #repression
    #DefendFreeSpeech
    #ProtestIsNotACrime
    #DefendStudentProtesters
    #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
    #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
    #USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
    #news #press @palestine