March 13, 2025

Pro Palestinian Green Card Activist Arrested Protesting at Columbia U.

 

Activist Arrest

  • 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.