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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with #Trump
Rashid Khalidi

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a #university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in #Gaza, a crime in which #Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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The Guardian · I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with TrumpBy Rashid Khalidi

Those Attacking Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Endanger Jews

from #WorldOutlook
July 23, 2025

It’s Not Gaza Campus Protests That Endanger Jews, It’s Misguided Efforts to ‘Protect’ Them

What truly poses a danger to #Jews today is not young people demanding peace on campuses, it’s the way in which authorities, both university and governmental, but also the Jewish establishment, respond

article below was first published by Haaretz
July 22, 2025

Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students.

Kahlenberg, who is #Jewish, graduated this spring from the University of Texas, Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning #Israel’s genocidal war in #Gaza and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.

world-outlook.com/2025/07/23/t

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World-Outlook · Those Attacking Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Endanger JewsThis article explains that, far from “protecting” Jewish students, those attacking pro-Palestinian student protests are the ones endangering Jews. Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students. Kahlenberg, who is Jewish, graduated this spring from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.

Freed from #ICE detention, #MahmoudKhalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025

[good article - contains interview excerpts and photos]

"Inside, Khalil said he was denied his ulcer medication, forced to sleep under harsh fluorescent lights and fed “nearly inedible” food, causing him to lose 15 pounds (7 kilograms). “I cannot remember a night when I didn’t go to sleep hungry,” Khalil recalled.

Meanwhile, the #Trump administration publicly celebrated the arrest, promising to deport him and others whose protests against #Israel it dubbed “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” "

apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha

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#ADL chief compares student protesters to Islamist terrorists

#JonathanGreenblatt also said protests against #Israel were driven by ‘same kind of nihilists’ who participated in Black Lives Matter

from #TheForward
[#Jewish publication from #USA]

By Arno Rosenfeld and Jacob Kornbluh June 6, 2025

[contains links to audio of his speech]

"“We are an apolitical, non-partisan organization, but you have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see what’s happening on the left,” #Greenblatt said Friday, according to audio from the event obtained by the #Forward.

“There is a throughline from Occupy Wall Street to BLM to ‘defund the police’ to ‘River to the Sea,’” he added, referring to the Black Lives Matter movement launched a decade ago to protest police violence. “They are the same people, these are the same kind of nihilists.”"

forward.com/news/726133/greenb

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The Forward · Exclusive: ADL chief compares student protesters to ISIS and al-Qaeda in address to Republican officialsJonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said the protesters were acting like members of ISIS and al-Qaeda.

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student #Gaza protesters

Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

Tom Perkins
Fri 6 Jun 2025 06.00 EDT

"The #UniversityOfMichigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-#Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, #theGuardian has learned.

The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the #Guardian."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

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The Guardian · University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protestersBy Tom Perkins

Judge says US effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is likely unconstitutional

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 6:58 PM EDT, May 28, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said the #Trump administration’s effort to deport #MahmoudKhalil because of his pro-#Palestinian activism at #ColumbiaUniversity likely violates the #Constitution.

In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil — that his beliefs may pose a threat to U.S. foreign policy — could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement.

apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha

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#repression
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#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
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#Georgetown scholar recalls terror and ‘mockery of due process’ in immigration jail

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By OLIVIA DIAZ and BEN FINLEY
Updated 6:34 PM EDT, May 23, 2025

"Then Khan Suri had to use the plane’s bathroom. He said the guards refused to unshackle his wrists.

“They said, ‘No, you have to use it like this or do it in your trousers,’” #KhanSuri recalled of the trip, taking him to a Louisiana detention center. “They were behaving as if we were animals.”"

apnews.com/article/badar-khan-

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#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
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Graduates Boo #Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught Year

Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, noted the absence of #MahmoudKhalil, a graduate who continues to be detained by immigration authorities.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]

By Sharon Otterman
May 21, 2025 Updated 4:08 p.m. ET

"The celebrations at smaller graduation ceremonies on Tuesday were also punctuated by anger directed at Columbia administrators. At the graduation for Columbia College, the university’s main undergraduate school, some students repeatedly interrupted Ms. Shipman’s remarks with loud jeers. At one point, they chanted “Free Mahmoud.”"

nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregio

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The New York Times · Graduates Boo Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught YearBy Sharon Otterman

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

Even before President #Trump was re-elected, the #HeritageFoundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-#Palestinian activism in the #UnitedStates.

From #TheNewYorkTimes #NYT
[Gift article - expires in 30 days]
By Katie J.M. Baker

May 18, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET

Heritage officials said they did not know whether the White House, which has its own #antisemitism task force, had used Project Esther as a guide. Administration officials declined to discuss it. But Robert Greenway, a Heritage national security director who coauthored #ProjectEsther, said it was “no coincidence that we called for a series of actions to take place privately and publicly, and they are now happening.”

nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/proj

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The Heritage Foundation headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The New York Times · Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plan to Crush the U.S. Palestinian MovementBy Katie J.M. Baker

“They Want to Silence Me”: #Columbia Student #MohsenMahdawi on ICE Jail, #Palestine, Activism, #Buddhism [interview]

from #DemocracyNow
May 16, 2025

"In this prison, [...], #ICE rents a section of the prison. And the section where I was, it was a mixture of three-quarters of people who have committed crimes before, and one-quarter of migrants who come in and out. And I was — my cell was C-38, the first cell in that C section where the migrants are. So, I saw waves of the migrants. Those are not just migrants. Those are the people who feed us, who plant our food, who harvest our organic, delicious #Vermont produce."

democracynow.org/2025/5/16/moh

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Democracy Now! · “They Want to Silence Me”: Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi on <span class="caps">ICE</span> Jail, Palestine, Activism, BuddhismBy Democracy Now!

In #Graduation Speech, #NYU Student Condemns U.S.-backed #Israeli War in Gaza

University Withholds Student’s Diploma, in Latest Flashpoint over Free Speech on U.S. Campuses

from #WorldOutlook
May 16, 2025

[contains transcript of his speech]

“We commend Logan for using this opportunity to demand an end to the bloodshed in #Gaza,” said Afaf Nasher, executive director of CAIR-NY, a Muslim civil rights organization. “We demand that NYU formally release Logan’s diploma, which he rightfully earned, and suspend any disciplinary proceedings against him.””

world-outlook.com/2025/05/16/i

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World-Outlook · In Graduation Speech, NYU Student Condemns U.S.-backed Israeli War in GazaOn May 14, Logan Rozos, a student at New York University (NYU), gave a brief but powerful speech during the graduation ceremony of Gallatin, a liberal arts school within NYU. In his remarks (transcribed by World-Outlook from the video of Rozos’ speech, and published in this post), the student condemned the U.S.-backed Israeli war on the Palestinian people in Gaza. NYU immediately announced it is withholding the student’s diploma as it pursues disciplinary actions against him, in the latest flashpoint between free speech principles and punishment for pro-Palestinian advocacy on U.S. college campuses.

#Indian academic held over pro-#Palestinian views released from #ICE jail

Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in March

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Marina Dunbar and agency
Wed 14 May 2025 17.47 EDT

"US district judge Patricia Giles ... said that the ruling was effective immediately with no conditions and no bond. She added that #KhanSuri’s release was “in the public interest to disrupt the chilling effect on protected speech” during the hearing."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

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The Guardian · Indian academic held over pro-Palestinian views released from Ice jailBy Marina Dunbar

#Tufts student returns to #Massachusetts after release from immigration custody

from #Reuters
By Nate Raymond
May 10, 202510:12 PM EDT

[article contains 5 nice photos :-) ]

** Summary**
* #Öztürk returns home after release from immigration detention center
* Judge in #Vermont grants bail, citing substantial claims her rights were violated
* Ozturk urges public to remember detained women in Louisiana

reuters.com/world/us/tufts-stu

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Turkish #TuftsUniversity student released from Louisiana immigration detention center [#RümeysaÖztürk]

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By KATHY McCORMACK
Updated 8:33 PM EDT, May 9, 2025

'“Despite an 11th hour attempt to delay her freedom by trying to force her to wear an ankle monitor, Rumeysa is now free and is excited to return home, free of monitoring or restriction,” attorney Mahsa Khanbabai said.'

apnews.com/article/ozturk-tuft

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#Columbia suspends over 65 students following pro-Palestinian protest in library

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
Updated 9:21 PM EDT, May 9, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — #ColumbiaUniversity has suspended dozens of students and barred alums and others who participated in a pro-#Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library earlier this week, a school spokesperson said Friday.

The Ivy League institution in Manhattan placed more than 65 students on interim suspension and barred 33 others, including those from affiliated institutions such as Barnard College, from setting foot on campus.

apnews.com/article/columbia-pr

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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, released from Louisiana jail

PhD student arrested in March for political speech released on Friday after federal judge’s ruling

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Maya Yang and Noa Yachot in New York and agencies
Fri 9 May 2025 19.32 EDT

"#RümeysaÖztürk, the #Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech, has been released from the Louisiana detention center where she was being held in what she and her lawyers had argued was a breach of her constitutional rights."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

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The Guardian · Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, released from Louisiana jailBy Maya Yang