‘The Encampments’ is a powerful and intimate look inside the student-led divestment movement that brought some of the nation’s most powerful institutions to their knees, and inspired thousands across the country to demand an end to the Gaza genocide.
On the same day ICE posted a social media graphic saying it is working to keep “illegal” ideas out of the US, a Louisiana immigration judge ruled the Trump administration could deport Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil for opposing the Gaza genocide.
The Trump administration’s new “Joint Task Force October 7” appears to be yet another weapon in the White House’s war on Palestine activism.
In a hearing in New York City on Wednesday, Mahmoud Khalil’s attorney’s said they have not been allowed to have contact with him since his detention. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s rationale for detaining Khalil continues to change.
They can deport every last one of us, but they cannot erase the spirit of Palestinian resistance. That is what they fear.
Welcome to Power & Pushback, Mondoweiss’s new newsletter tracking the rise and repression of the Palestine movement.
Three Columbia University students filed a lawsuit against the school, citing dozens of instances where the school targeted the plaintiffs over their pro-Palestine activism, including suspension and housing eviction.
“Despite the McCarthyite environment, the new anti-speech policies, the attempts to throw the book at students for minor violations of such policies, the student movement is still going strong,” says Palestine Legal attorney Radhika Sainath.
Columbia President Nemat Shafik suspends three deans over text messages, and Biden resumes sending 500lb bombs to Israel.
I cannot help but be moved by the wave of protests taking over college campuses across the country. But the protests aren’t the story. Gaza is.