#freemahmoudkhalil — Public Fediverse posts
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New Legal Documents Show #MarcoRubio Targeted #Students for #OpEds and #Protesting
Rubio accused students including #MahmoudKhalil of supporting terrorism, but records unsealed after litigation by The Intercept undermine his claims.
by Jessica Washington, January 23 2026
Excerpt: "The students won their case last year, but until Thursday, the trove of documents remained under lock and key after the judge agreed to seal the records on the State Department’s behalf. At the request of The Intercept, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, Massachusetts District Judge William G. Young ultimately unsealed the records, revealing intimate details about the State Department’s persecution of students speaking out in support of #Palestine."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/23/mahmoud-khalil-palestine-protest-rubio/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/TCxn3#USPol #FreeSpeech #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Authoritarianism #FreeMahmoudKhalil #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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https://newstimes4all2025.blogspot.com/2025/06/us-judge-orders-release-of-pro.html
#MahmoudKhalil
#FreeMahmoudKhalil
#ProPalestinianActivist
#JusticeForKhalil
#FirstAmendment
#ImmigrationRights
#ICERelease
#StudentActivism
#ColumbiaUniversity
#ReleaseKhalil
#FreeSpeechMatters
#ImmigrantJustice
#LegalVictory
#ProtestSupport
#RightToAdvocate
#PoliticalPersecution
#HabeasCorpus
#ImmigrationDetention
#ActivismWins
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Marco Rubio and the Administration really fear the voice of Mahmoud Khalil.
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #DefundICE #impeachTrumpnow -
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Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident and recent Columbia University graduate student, has not been charged with any crime.
Now this Louisiana Judge, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz, wrote in a 106-page decision that he wants him to present further legal arguments for why he should be released.That sounds the other way around to me; charge him first and present legal arguments why he is jailed ánd why he's transported to another state.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/28/mahmoud-khalil-ruling-deportation-unconstitutional-00373865 #FreeMahmoudKhalil
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Mahmoud Khalil: Jailed Activist Testifies Before Immigration Judge and Holds His Child for First Time
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/23/mahmoud_khalil
#AbolishIce #Stopthedeportations #immigrantrights #Palestine #genocide #gaza #trump #fascism #MahmoudKhalil #freemahmoudkhalil
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFr12kXR36A
#MahmoudKhalil Testifies Before #Immigration Judge and Holds🎉 Child for First Time
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WATCH: IDF FIRES on EU Diplomats in West Bank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KaXbIUgFO4 #Israel #IDF #Westbank #EU #diplomats #ColumbiaUniversity
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #MahmoudKhalil
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"Acting President #ClaireShipman was met with loud jeers at Columbia College’s graduation ceremony. Just minutes in, students erupted in chants of “Free Mahmoud”, demanding the release of jailed Palestinian activist #MahmoudKhalil ✊
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mh5lZJnwwgY #Israel #Gaza #genocide #studentprotest #ColumbiaUniversity #ICE #Trump #resist #fascism #FreeMahmoudKhalil
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#MahmoudKhalil has been kidnapped and detained in Louisiana for more than 2 months and he missed the birth of his first child
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This Is #Palestine pod | Justice for Mahmoud Khalil
Diana Buttu speaks with Dr Noor Abdalla, a Syrian-American dentist and the wife of Palestinian student activist and political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil
#USpol #USpolitics #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #FreeMahmoudKhalil #stateRepression #politicalRepression #studentProtests #ICE #ICEdetention #civilRights #civilLiberties #politicalPrisoners @palestine
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#ICE Admits They Didn't Have a Warrant When They Arrested #MahmoudKhalil
"ICE has admitted it detained Mahmoud illegally and without a warrant—to justify it, they are now flat out lying with an absurd claim that he tried to flee," said a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
by Eloise Goldsmith
Apr 25, 2025Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-warrant-mahmoud-khalil#FreeMahmoudKhalil #CommonDreams #ReaderSupportedNews #FreePalestine #FreeRumeysaOzturk #FreeKilmarAbregoGarcia #FreeMoshenMahdawi #Fascism #StopDeportations #USPol #TurdReich #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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“I welcomed our son into the world earlier today without Mahmoud by my side. Despite our request for ICE to allow Mahmoud to attend the birth, they denied his temporary release to meet our son. This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/mahmoud-khalil-ice-noor-abdalla-birth
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“I hope this writing will startle you into understanding that a democracy for some — a democracy of convenience — is no democracy at all. I hope it will shake you into acting before it is too late,” he wrote.
The administration is deporting Khalil for nothing more than his beliefs, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio explicitly admitted in a memo turned over as evidence in his case."
https://truthout.org/articles/mahmoud-khalil-writes-from-prison-democracy-for-some-is-no-democracy-at-all/
#MahmoudKhalil #FreeMahmoudKhalil
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BestoftheLeft Edition #1704: "Weaponization and Capitulation: Trump vs Immigrants, Universities, and Media"
🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or at bestoftheleft.com/1704
🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On how racism and anti-intellectualism are a self-inflicted injury to society
💙 bestoftheleft.com/support
#podcast #progressive #progressives #progressivepolitics #politics #uspolitics #columbiauniversity #lawfirms #TrumpDOJ #tariffs #freemahmoudkhalil #dueprocessforall #constitution
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A protest of more than one!
#PortlandME #PortlandMaine #April19th #MaineResists #FreeMahmoudKhalil NOT A #ProtestOfOne ! -
National @50501movement is asking folks attending 4/19 #HandsOff events to center message #FreeKilmarAbregoGarcia
#FreeMahmoudKhalil
#StopDeportationsThere's a lot going on, y'all & it's all so dire 🤦🏻♀️
But if #TheTurdReich can deport anybody they want we're all seriously f'dhttps://mastodon.tacoma.community/@EvergreenResistanceTacoma/114344358290880364
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#Harvard professors sue #Trump administration over funding cut threats
by Katie Cole, April 14, 2025, #WBUR
"The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration Friday over what they call an 'unlawful and unprecedented' attempt to use federal funding cuts to restrict #FreeSpeech.
"The #DepartmentOfEducation announced in late March that it would review $8.7 billion in federal grants and contacts given to Harvard, alleging that the school failed to prevent #antisemitic discrimination on campus.
"The Trump administration then unveiled a broad set of demands on April 4 the university must agree to in order to keep getting federal funding, including cutting all diversity, equity and inclusion programming, and modifying any programming and departments that 'fuel antisemitic harassment.' The administration gave Columbia University a similar set of demands in March, which the school agreed to.
"The lawsuit by the professors' group, filed in #Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct, which prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. The court filing says the law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.
"The group said in a press release that the administration's actions are in effort to create a chilling effect among universities and faculty to stop speech that the president does not like.
" 'Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important,' said Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard law professor and the secretary-treasurer of the school's #AAUP chapter, in a statement. 'But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics.'
"The lawsuit says that the actions by the administration have 'already caused severe and irreparable harm by halting #academic #research and #inquiry at Harvard.'
"This is the second suit that the Harvard AAUP chapter has filed against the Trump administration this year. The first was a joint suit with other chapters, including one from Columbia, over federal efforts to deport #MahmoudKhalil and students that engaged in #ProPalestinian #activism."
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/14/harvard-aaup-trump-funding-cuts-lawsuit
#SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarian #Authoritarianism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #TrumpIsABully #DEI #Erasure #Censorship
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Mahmoud Khalil's Lawyer: Trump Admin Is Delaying in Federal Court While Racing to Deport Activist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5gAteUnwI #Trump #ICE #MahmoudKhalil #MarcoRubio
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5gAteUnwI
#MahmoudKhalil's #Lawyer: Trump Admin is Delaying in #FederalCourt Whilst Racing to 'Deport' (aka 'Removed, Kidnapped, no due process) Activist
#StopTheKidnappings #StopDeportations #DUEPROCESS #Law #USLaw
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THIS IS BULLSHIT! (AND ILLEGAL!!!)
Pressed for evidence against #MahmoudKhalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
By Jake Offenhartz, April 10, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — "Facing a deadline from an immigration judge to turn over evidence for its attempted deportation of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, the federal government has instead submitted a brief memo, signed by Secretary of State #MarcoRubio, citing the Trump administration’s authority to expel #noncitizens whose presence in the country damages U.S. foreign policy interests.
"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against #Israel’s treatment of #Palestinians and the war in #Gaza.
"Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs.
"He said that while Khalil’s activities were 'otherwise lawful,' letting him remain in the country would undermine 'U.S. policy to combat #AntiSemitism [sez the folks who do the #Nazi salute] around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.'
"'Condoning anti-Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy objective,' Rubio wrote in the undated memo.
"The submission was filed Wednesday after Judge Jamee Comans ordered the government to produce its evidence against Khalil ahead of a hearing Friday on whether it can continue detaining him during immigration proceedings.
"Attorneys for Khalil said the memo proved the Trump administration was 'targeting Mahmoud’s #FreeSpeech rights about #Palestine.'
"'After a month of hiding the ball since Mahmoud’s late-night unjust arrest in New York and taking him away to a remote detention center in Louisiana, immigration authorities have finally admitted that they have no case whatsoever against him,' the attorneys, Marc Van Der Hout and Johnny Sinodis, said in a joint statement. "
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34
#TrumpIsABully #FreeMahmoudKhalil #IllegalDeportations #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarianism #BibiIsAWarCriminal -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACQ-2nTbos
#WWLTV (1hour ago)
Judge gives feds 24 hours to PROVE case against jailed #student #MahmoudKhalil or DROP IT!!!!
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[Thread] So, I was at the #SouthPortlandME #HandsOff rally. Not as big as the #PortlandME or #AugustaME ones (I hear Augusta one was HUGE), but we still made an impact! I brought extra signs and found folks willing to hold them up! That's where I needed to be!
#SouthPortlandME #MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism #FreeMahmoudKhalil #WaterIsLife #FundLibrariesNotSpaceX #MainePride -
#Jewish #ColumbiaUniversityStudents Chain Themselves to #ColumbiaUniversity Fence to Protest #Khalil Detention
"As Jewish students, we grew up learning about the rise of #fascism, learning about how important it is to stand up when you see #injustice in the world," said one #protester.
by Julia Conley, Apr 02, 2025
"'We are here in protest of that to demand that the university tell us which trustees, which members of the university administration, are responsible for this so we can demand immediate consequences for them and hold them accountable for what they've done to our peer,' said the undergraduate student.
"Shea added that Jewish students were leading the protest because 'the attacks on our international students, on students of color, have been so fierce, so dangerous, so disproportionate that we are the only students who can be here right now taking this risk.'"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-student-protests
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #AlirezaDoroudi #RumeysaOzturk #YunseoChung #KseniyaPetrova #Disappeared #Orwellian #MemoryHole #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ICE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqnKIc5pHw&list=PLneypbodq-jYq9a6Y8BjobC6KJOIBLCZB&index=3
Jewish Students Chain Themselves to #Columbia Gates to Protest #ICE Jailing of #MahmoudKhalil
#NotInOurName ✡️ :anarchismhebrew:
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-student-protests
Jewish students Chain Themselves to #Columbia Fence to Protest #MahmoudKhalil Detention
by #JuliaConley 2 April 2025
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Wonderfully powerful address from #Macklemore that I can truly identify with on a personal level.
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So, I posted the photo where I'm holding up a #FreeMahmoudKhalil sign on #BlueSky... 2 reposts! And they were both my friends irl. So yeah. Tell me that Blue Sky isn't mucking about with the algorithms? They most certainly are! But I'll stay on it just to keep up with #MaineProtests. Anyhow, now we know. Proving that the #Fediverse is the place to be!
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#BrunswickME - #BowdoinCollege students stand firm in support of detained #ProPalestine organizer at #ColumbiaUniversity
by WGME StaffSun, March 16th 2025
BRUNSWICK, Maine (WGME) -- "Pro-#Palestinian students at Bowdoin have no plans to shy away from speaking out after a pro-#Palestine student-organizer at Columbia was detained.
"#MahmoudKhalil, a permanent U.S. resident, was arrested a week ago after his involvement in protests at Columbia University.
"He's being held by immigration in Louisiana but has not been charged with a crime.
"Olivia Kenney, a student-organizer at Bowdoin, is currently in New York protesting for Khalil's freedom.
"She tells us his detainment and the expulsion of students across the country is not deterring students from taking action.
"'I am seeing people on campuses across the country and in New York continuing to rise to the occasion. I heard from some of the expelled students who were speaking yesterday and talking about how you can expel a student, but you can't remove their conviction, you cannot remove commitment,' Kenney said.
"Justice Department lawyers have argued the U.S. Government is seeking Khalil's removal because Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reasonable grounds to believe his activities or presence in the country could have 'serious adverse foreign policy consequences.'
"Rubio says the U.S. will likely revoke more student visas in the coming days."
Source:
https://wgme.com/news/local/bowdoin-students-stand-firm-in-support-of-detained-pro-palestine-organizer-at-columbia-united-states-louisiana-new-york-justice-department-marco-rubio-trump-israel#
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#Protest held in #PortlandME to support #PalestinianActivist
March 18, 2025
PORTLAND (WGME) -- "A rally in downtown Portland was held Tuesday afternoon, protesting the detention and proposed deportation of a #Palestinian activist.
"Community leaders turned out in support of #MahmoudKhalil, a permanent U.S. resident and student who was arrested a week ago over his involvement in #ProPalestine protests at #ColumbiaUniversity.
"He's accused of distributing pro-Hamas propaganda, including flyers bearing the group’s logo and organizing protests that disrupted classes and harassed Jewish students.
"Khalil is currently being held by immigration officers in Louisiana but has not been charged with a crime.
"The State Department is looking to revoke his green card.
"His attorneys have filed a lawsuit challenging his detention, arguing his rights were violated.
"'This is a travesty of justice,' #FaisalKhan of the #CarolinaPeaceCenter said. 'A stain on the moral conscience of the United States. And yet, the American public remains largely silent. How much longer will the silence continue, I ask? How much longer will people turn away from the suffering of innocent lives. Silence is complicity.'"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/protest-held-in-portland-to-support-palestinian-activist/ar-AA1Bcl7i
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeMahmoud #PortlandMaine #MaineResists #MaineResistance #USPol -
"According to the doctrine’s principles, judges should avoid ruling on whether or not #immigration laws are constitutional, even when it appears they are not."
The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against #MahmoudKhalil
#PlenaryPowerDoctrine #USlaw #immigrationLaw #USpol #USpolitics #deportations #massDeportations #immigrantRights #civilRights #civilLiberties #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #PalestineSolidarity #StateRepression #FreeMahmoudKhalil @palestine
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#ColumbiaUniversity Apologized to #MahmoudKhalil in May 2024 for One-Day Suspension
#MarcoRubio justified Khalil's arrest using the same #protest-related charges Columbia brought against him — but dismissed a day later.
by Isa Farfan, March 19 2025
Original article:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/19/columbia-mahmoud-khalil-suspension-gaza-protests/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/4Oelc
#FreePalestine #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeMahmoud #USPol #Gaza #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #Authoritarianism -
Judge orders #MahmoudKhalil's case transferred from #Louisiana to #NewJersey
March 19, 2025
Excerpt: "Rejecting the administration's bid on Wednesday, District Judge Jesse Furman ruled that, since the district of New Jersey was 'the one and only district in which Khalil could have filed his petition" seeking his release from detention, the case must be transferred there rather than Louisiana.
"The judge also upheld his 10 March order barring Mr Khalil's deportation while the case continues, but did not rule on his lawyers' request for immediate release.
"The US justice department has not commented on the ruling.
"Mr Khalil's lawyer Samah Sisay said in a statement on Wednesday that the government moved him to Louisiana to avoid having the case heard in New York or New Jersey.
"'Mr Khalil should be free and home with his wife awaiting the birth of their first child, and we will continue to do everything possible to make that happen,' Ms Sisay told Reuters.
"Mr Khalil's wife, who is a US citizen, is eight months pregnant.
"His lawyers have argued that he was exercising #FreeSpeech rights to demonstrate in support of #Palestinians in #Gaza and against US support for #Israel. They accused the government of 'open #repression of student #activism and #Politicalspeech'.
"Trump has previously stated that foreign students found to be 'terrorist sympathisers' would face deportation.
"Mr Khalil has not been charged with any crime.
"On Wednesday, Trump deputy chief of staff #StephenMiller said the administration believes "that any foreign nationals visiting our country are prohibited from supporting any designated terrorist organization" such as Hamas."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwygldgjkgyo
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeMahmoud #SilencingDissent #Authoritarianism #ResistFascism #ResistAuthoritarianism -
Mahmoud Khalil speaks out from the ICE detention facility in Louisiana:
"Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all."
https://writer.oliphant.social/dispatch/a-letter-from-mahmoud-khalil
#FreeKhalil #FreeMahmoudKhalil
#CivilLiberties
#HumanRights
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3/4 “I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention – imprisonment without trial or charge – to strip Palestinians of their rights,” he said.
“I think of #Gaza hospital director and pediatrician #DrHussamAbuSafiya, who was taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.”
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@MikeImBack -- #FreeMahmoudKhalil -- They don't get that their #2A rights are rooted in their #1A rights. Too many #MAGA #Gunowners don't get that if you take away peaceful protest and there is no other way to change your government, you are left with violence. They will then come for the guns in the name of public safety.
