- ICE investigators have searched the internet for campus protesters whom they could accuse of supporting Hamas. Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and Columbia graduate, was the first they arrested.
- Protesters gathered outside a Manhattan courthouse yesterday for the first hearing in Khalil’s case. A judge ordered the government to let Khalil speak privately with his lawyers, which he had not been allowed to do.
- Administrators at Columbia University told students who were not U.S. citizens to avoid publishing work on Gaza or risk punishment from the Trump administration.
- Yale suspended a pro-Palestinian scholar after an A.I.-powered news site accused her of having links to terrorists.
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