As an immigration judge orders her release for the third time, Leqaa Kordia’s team is moving quickly to release her before DHS imposes another stay. The Palestine activist is the last Columbia student protester to remain in ICE detention.

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.

They can deport every last one of us, but they cannot erase the spirit of Palestinian resistance. That is what they fear.

Together, we are collectively making history as we fortify our long tradition of resistance against injustice and fight for a liberated future in Palestine and beyond.

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.