The judge rebuked the Trump administration Wednesday, and Khalil expanded his civil suit against Columbia University to name Attorney General Pam Bondi, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and others.
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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist involved in organizing at Columbia University, is the result of more than a year of pro-Israeli think-tank propaganda and lobbying efforts to tie the students to Hamas and erode free speech protections in the United States.
Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil speaks out from Louisiana immigration detention for first time
Israeli-American billionaire Miriam Adelson is the largest financier of Trump’s three presidential campaigns. Tax documents reveal that she is directly overseeing a social media campaign targeting Khalil and Columbia University
Columbia, which manages & awards the Pulitzer prize, put someone who advocated killing Arab civilians in a position of power, helping determine who in journalism is worthy of its highest award, and creating an atmosphere on campus that makes clear to its Palestinian students that they are unworthy of normal protections under the laws of war.
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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a Cornell University professor and two graduate students. The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of two Executive Orders used by the Trump Administration to target and deport international students advocating for Palestinian freedom, rights, and liberation under the guise of protecting national security.
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