I wrote:
Tucker Lieberman, Why Was Palestinian Student Leader Mahmoud Khalil Detained?
The meaning of ‘shalom’ I know is ‘peace.’ A political arrest isn’t peaceful. Medium, Mar 12, 2025
Here's follow-up info over the past week:
They arrested another Palestinian student of Columbia, Leqaa Kordia, as well as an Indian one, Ranjani Srinivasan. They accused Ranjani of ‘supporting Hammas’ (ICE misspelled Hamas). www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
— Elia Ayoub إيليا أيوب (@ayoub.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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“Jewish leaders need to ask themselves if they’re willing to allow our community to be used in this way to dismantle democratic norms,” said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. “If the answer is no, their condemnation of this arrest should be loud and swift.”
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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The Disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil: Civil rights attorney Edward Ahmed Mitchell and journalist Meghnad Bose discuss the profound implications Khalil’s case raises for free speech and due process. The Intercept Briefing (📢 podcast), March 13 2025
Why Trump Is So Desperate to Keep Mahmoud Khalil in Louisiana: Government lawyers would be happy to avoid a legal precedent set in the case of Ravi Ragbir during the first Trump administration. Shawn Musgrave, The Intercept, March 14 2025
If pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli protests is considered a form of terrorism, then anti-Musk protests will be considered terrorism too. Trump has said so.
Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas", Marc Caputo, Axios, Mar 6, 2025
Khalil Gibran Muhammad on LinkedIn: three federal agencies sent a letter to Columbia University that lays out conditions for future federal funds.
A Love Letter to the Student Movement Repression of the Palestine movement is now here, so what must be done? Four practical steps for the next phase. Carrie Zaremba, In These Times, March 17, 2025
Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) March 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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"Hundreds of Jewish professors, scholars and students have signed a letter condemning the Trump administration for canceling $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University and threatening other universities."
— Matt Shuham, Hundreds Of Jewish Academics Condemn Trump Attacks On Universities: “The knock-on effects of this will be catastrophic,” one co-author told HuffPost. HuffPost, Mar 19, 2025
2,500 Jewish Academics Call Out Trump: Over 2,500 Jewish academics and students denounce Trump for cynical claims of antisemitism. Arturo Dominguez, Medium, March 20, 2025
BREAKING: Judge Furman transfers Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas case to New Jersey, where he was when the petition was filed, rejecting government requests to dismiss the petition or transfer it to Louisiana, where he is now. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
— Steven W. Thrasher is here to protect students (@thrasherxy.bsky.social) March 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Columbia University Caves After Threats From Trump Columbia University agreed to implement a suite of policy changes Friday, including overhauling its rules for protests. AP, HuffPost, Mar 21, 2025
Former Columbia law professor @katherinefranke.bsky.social says the Trump administration held the school ransom by freezing $400 million in funds and demanding drastic changes on campus. "Columbia considered it and did more than what the ransom note demanded, for which it got nothing in return."
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org) March 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Now this is happening
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
— Clint Smith (@clintsmithiii.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
— Congressman Stephen F. Lynch (@lynch.house.gov) March 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
University Of Alabama Student Detained By Federal Immigration Agents. The Trump administration is continuing to target noncitizen university students. Marita Vlachou, HuffPost, Mar 27, 2025
The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.
— Eman Abdelhadi (@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Khalil was able to dictate an essay:
"Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil rebuked what he called the school’s “repression playbook” that has opened the gates for higher education and the federal government to target dissent on campus and abduct students like him for their pro-Palestinian advocacy.
Khalil, a green card holder married to a U.S. citizen, was taken by federal immigration agents on March 8 for his role in helping lead last year’s antiwar protests on Columbia’s campus. While his court case plays out in New Jersey, Khalil remains held without charge in a Louisiana detention center — where he dictated to his attorney a searing op-ed for the Columbia Spectator that published Friday [April 4]."
— Sanjana Karanth, Mahmoud Khalil Rebukes Columbia For Targeting Dissent With 'Repression Playbook', HuffPost, April 6, 2025
US Is Quietly Revoking Student Visas From Harvard to Stanford, Alicia A. Caldwell, Yahoo Finance, April 7, 2025
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) April 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Sec. of State Marco Rubio has written in a memo that Mahmoud Khalil is subject to deportation because “the alien's past, current, or expected beliefs” have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.” His position is potential thoughts are grounds for deportation
— Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb.bsky.social) April 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs, Jake Offenhartz, AP, April 10, 2025
Judge Rules That Columbia University Activist Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported: The Trump administration argued that the legal U.S. resident posed a national security risk because of his involvement in protests, even as it admitted his conduct didn't break any laws. Associated Press, Apr 11, 2025
Another rabbis' letter--this from over 100 Chicago-area rabbis, proud to be one--protesting the horrors being carried out these days in the name of "combating antisemitism." Published in the Trib today. Full list of signatories in the second skeet. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/l...
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@theradr.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Deborah Lipstadt, Biden’s former antisemitism envoy, claims that Trump is protecting democracy by targeting student protestors. I’m losing my mind.
— Elad Nehorai (@eladn.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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New court filing tonight shows that Yunseo Chung, a Columbia student who participated in pro-Palestine protests, was named alongside Mahmoud Khalil in Secretary Rubio's letter terminating their status as legal permanent residents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) May 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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