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.