Student protestors across the country are adapting their strategies to Trump’s crackdown on the pro-Palestine movement, but it’s safe to say the activism is not slowing down.
Columbia University issued suspensions, expulsions, and temporary degree revocations to students connected to the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall, as ICE agents reportedly arrested a second Palestinian Columbia student on Friday.
The fight to free Mahmoud Khalil is not merely about preserving First Amendment rights, it is about whether we will allow our government to criminalize resistance to its complicity in human rights abuses and genocide.
In a stark escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign against Palestine activism, on Saturday night, ICE agents raided the home of Mahmoud Khalil and detained the activist who had been among the leaders of Gaza protests at Columbia University.
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According to a new report, a total of $12.3 million was spent on “managing” UCLA’s protests around the school’s Gaza solidarity encampment last year. Additionally, there were over 200 arrests, and more than 10 degrees were withheld from students.
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.
Documenting one year of revolt from the occupied West Bank to the East Coast.
Militaries need universities to develop technologies of war. Student researchers who are vital in developing these technologies are uniquely placed to disrupt them.
Palestine has ignited our planetary consciousness once again, and it is the student movement that refuses to let genocide become our new normal. They know that the fight for Palestine is a fight for us all.