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.”
The Trump administration has imprisoned several students over their activism for Palestine. While many of their names are known to us, one Columbia University student’s story has gone underreported. Her name is Leqaa Kordia, and this is her story.
The FBI visited U.S. journalist Ken Klippenstein’s home after he published the embassy shooting suspect’s so called manifesto. The intimidation of the journalist is part of the wider Trump crackdown on speech and the pro-Palestine movement.
Read the inspiring remarks Columbia University Palestine activists gave at an alternative graduation ceremony, the “People’s Graduation,” in honor of their expelled and suspended comrades.
Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman was repeatedly met with a loud chorus of boos and “Free Mahmoud!” chants as the school held graduation ceremonies this week.
The Trump administration’s assault on Palestine activism may seem unprecedented, but the parallels to the post-9/11 “War on Terror” are chillingly familiar. However, this attempt to quash dissent will fail, because you cannot deport a movement.
In a blow to the White House, a federal appeals court ruled that Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont. It was just one of several legal setbacks for the Trump administration in recent days.
‘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.