Mahmoud Khalil is suing Trump to release communications between the administration and anti-Palestinian groups.
Immigration Judge Jamee Comans has ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to either Syria or Algeria, in a move seen widely as retaliation for Khalil’s Palestine activism.
This past weekend, thousands gathered in Detroit for the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine. This year’s guiding principle: Gaza is the Compass.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and Boston Consulting Group helped design a plan to displace Palestinians under the guise of aid. But resistance to this violence is rising, from BDS to American classrooms.
Mahmoud Khalil is seeking $20 million in damages from the Trump administration, alleging that he was falsely imprisoned. Khalil says he would use the funds to assist others targeted by Trump’s crackdown.
“The wave of repression that the Trump administration initiated with my detention was intended to silence the movement for Palestinian liberation,” Mahmoud Khalil told a rally outside Columbia shortly after his release. “But they completely failed.”
A federal judge ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be released on bail. The former Columbia University student and Palestinian activist has been held by the Trump administration, in a Louisiana detention facility, since March.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot detain or deport Mahmoud Khalil based on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s determination, in a decision hailed by his legal team as “a huge win.”
In a recent speech, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt compared Gaza protesters to ISIS and celebrated the Trump administration’s crackdown on universities.
Rev. Nyle Fort writes a letter to Mahmoud Khalil’s and Noor Abdalla’s newborn son, Deen. “Even genocide cannot exterminate our will to live. This is what makes you dangerous to the powers that be. For you are proof of irrepressible life.”