Effort to deport #ColumbiaUniversity student rests solely on #MarcoRubio determination

A government document that details the civil charges against #MahmoudKhalil does not include written evidence from #immigration officers.

#law #CivilRights #FreedomToAssemble #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/12/marco-rubio-mahmoud-khalil-deportation/

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin charged in a statement following the arrest that "Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization," but offered no support for the claim...#MahmoudKhalil..#Trump..#ColumbiaUniversity..#Israel..#crime https://gothamist.com/news/what-to-know-about-the-immigration-arrest-of-recent-columbia-grad-mahmoud-khalil

calling for Khalil's release:
The Democratic lawmakers who signed on to the memo are:
Reps. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.),
Mark Pocan (Wisc.),
Nydia Velázquez (N.Y.),
Delia Ramirez (Ill.),
Ilhan Ohmar (Minn.),
Jasmine Crockett (Texas),
Summer Lee (Pa.),
Ayanna Pressley (Mass.),
Lateefah Simon (Calif.),
Gwen Moore (Wisc.),
Nikema Williams (Ga.),
Al Green (Texas),
Andre Carson (Ind.) and
James McGovern (Mass.).

where's AOC?...#MahmoudKhalil..#Congress..

Sounds like #Reuters editorial board has some issues with the arrest, under FALSE PRETENSE, of #MahmoudKhalil, #ColumbiaUniversity #Palestine protester.

Bulletpoints at the top:

(He) was legal permanent U.S. resident

Wife says he is helping fellow immigrants even in jail

(She is) a dentist in New York, wants him home for birth of their first child in April

"Wife of arrested Columbia student says she was naive to believe he was secure" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wife-arrested-columbia-student-says-she-was-naive-believe-he-was-secure-2025-03-12/ #freespeech @palestine

Wife of #Columbia graduate student detained by #ICE speaks out about his arrest

#MahmoudKhalil was detained by Ice agents on Saturday, part of #Trump’s crackdown on pro- #Palestinian campus protesters

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Michael Sainato
Wed 12 Mar 2025 09.26 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/columbia-mahmoud-khalil-wife-statement

#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics #repression
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

"Please add your name to join #RashidaTlaib and her colleagues in Congress demanding the immediate release of political prisoner #MahmoudKhalil. He should be back home safely with his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant with their child."

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-mahmoud-khalils-immediate-release-from-dhs-custody/

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #PoliticalPrisoners #DHS #ICEdetention #StateRepression #USpol #USpolitics @palestine @israel

According to new documents seen by Prem Thakker of Zeteo (see extract below) the decision to detain and remove Mahmoud Khalil was taken *personally* by Marco Rubio who, as far as I can tell, is neither a Constitutional scholar nor an expert in Con. law.
I doubt he even looked it up in a book.

#USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #ResistFascism

"“La vergognosa detenzione di #MahmoudKhalil da parte dell'amministrazione #Trump è progettata per instillare il terrore negli studenti che si esprimono a favore della libertà palestinese e delle comunità di immigrati”, ha affermato Jewish Voice for Peace in una dichiarazione sull'arresto."

#CeasefireNOW
#GazaGenocide‌ #Gaza #WestBank
#Israel #IsraeliOccupation #ZionistTerrorism #PACE #12marzo

https://www.valigiablu.it/arresto-studente-palestinese-columba-trump-usa/

#MahmoudKhalil:

"I would say that the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinians and the Jewish people are intertwined. They go hand in hand. Anti-Semitism and any form of racism has no place on campus and in this movement.”

#trump #fascism #gaza
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/university-protests-palestine-04-29-24/index.html

Outside the courthouse in New York, where Mahmoud Khalil's hearing is about to start.

#USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil #Resist #FreePalestine

"Experts have warned that the Trump presidency is intent on using Gaza protests as a tool to wage a wider “war on woke” against progressive thought at US universities

And so by punishing us in this way, Cornell and other universities have left the door wide open for Trump’s book-burning insurgents to run riot."

#MahmoudKhalil #education #Palestine

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/12/trump-wants-to-deport-foreign-students-like-me-universities-must-defy-him

Finally, a journalist asks the right question.

#USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil

Yesterday at UCLA

#USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil #Resist #FreePalestine

Not too many dots to join if your former dean is an actual former Mossad agent 🙄

#USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #Resist

https://www.mintpressnews.com/professor-columbia-university-scandal-former-israeli-spy/289231/

Breaking: a professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli military intelligence officer.

Read my new investigation here:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/professor-columbia-university-scandal-former-israeli-spy/289231/

#freespeech
#MahmoudKhalil
#ColumbiaUniversity
#usa
#Gaza
#Palestine
#press
#lebanon
#Genocide
#geopolitics
@palestine@a.gup.pe
@palestine@lemmygrad.ml @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten
#tiktok
#cdnpoli
#usa
#canada
#blackmastodon
@politics
@BLKNewsNow
@blackvoices
@blackmastodon
#democracy
#humanrights

I’ll bet Shai Davidai is furious and sad watching all this love & care for Mahmoud Khalil from thousands of people all over NYC and the country.

He knows, in his withered heart, that when he’s finally deported or thrown in jail, no one will care. No one at all.

Except those of us who will come out to celebrate.

https://x.com/susanabulhawa/status/1899637299891314954

#freespeech
#Gaza
#Palestine
#MahmoudKhalil
#ColumbiaUniversity
@palestine@a.gup.pe
@palestine@lemmygrad.ml @lebanon @yemen
#tiktok
#cdnpoli
#usa
#canada
#blackmastodon

“This Is All Retaliatory”: Judge Blocks Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation as Trump Vows More Arrests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l558ULKDyE

A federal judge has blocked the deportation of recent Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent legal resident of the U.S. who was arrested by immigration authorities for helping organize campus solidarity protests with Gaza…

#MahmoudKhalil #FreeSpeech #ColumbiaUniversity #Threats #Zionists #Israel #Shameful #Fascism #Agenda #Trump #RightsViolations

I'm not much of a supporter for any US policymaker at all, and don't love talks of "American values", but Democratic Senator Chris Murphy is largely on point about the forced *disappearance* of Mahmoud Khalil

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #MahmoudKhalil

Walk out at the University of Oregon today

#FreePalestine #MahmoudKhalil #Resist

Happening now in Chicago

#FreePalestine #MahmoudKhalil #Resist

Walk out at Stanford today

#FreePalestine #MahmoudKhalil #Resist

Walk out at UC Berkeley today

#FreePalestine #MahmoudKhalil #Resist

Jewish students staged a walk out at Columbia earlier today

#USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #Resist

The Orange Fascist Regime has made Mahmoud Khalil the symbol of the end of freedom of speech in the United States of America.

#MahmoudKhalil #Freedom #FreedomOfSpeech #FreeSpeech #impeachment #SaveAmericanDemocracy #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #journalism #news #analysis #Resist #media #socialmedia #Resistance #FascistAppeasers #FascistEnablers #FascistTakeover #MakeThemFight

Happening now in NYC

#USPolitics #FreePalestine #MahmoudKhalil

There's a fundraiser running for Mahmoud Khalil, if you'd like to contribute you can do so here:

https://chuffed.org/project/justice-for-mahmoud-khalil

#USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil #CivilRights #FreePalestine

"Mahmoud ran [the Chevening Programme's] Syria programme and interviewed hundreds, if not thousands, of applicants on behalf of the British government."

Another thing for Keith not to stand up to 47 about.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-mahmoud-khalil-uk-government-flagship-soft-power-policy

#UKPolitics #USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil

Fourteen members of Congress have signed a letter demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.
FOURTEEN.
AOC is not one of them.

#USPolitics #FreePalestine #MahmoudKhalil

squirrelyness from Time on Mahmoud Khalil’s detention and threatened deportation: ‘As of now, it remains unclear how the Trump administration plans to justify the revocation of Khalil’s green card and deportation,’ but hey, you know, federal fearful-borders chief Homan seems confident that ICE’s actions in this case are very legit, and ‘aggressive’ White House use of ‘powers’ is after all compelling spectacle, gosh!
https://time.com/7266683/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-green-card/

#journalism #compliantMedia #MahmoudKhalil #abolishICE

https://www.europesays.com/1904469/ How Anti-Muslim Hate In US Has Hit Record High Due To Israel-Gaza War #AntiSemitic #CAIR #ColumbiaUniversity #Conflicts #islamophobia #Israel #IsraelGazaWar #MahmoudKhalil #Muslims

"Since yesterday, I have been subjected to a vicious, coordinated, and dehumanizing doxxing campaign led by Columbia affiliates Shai Davidai and David Lederer who, among others, have labeled me a security threat and called for my deportation”

#MahmoudKhalil #ICE #Columbia #USPolitics

SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
https://zeteo.com/p/scoop-emails-show-mahmoud-khalil-ask-columbia-protection-ice

It wasn't just New Yorkers on the streets protesting for the release of Mahmoud Khalil ✊
Yesterday in DC.

#USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine

Per Michelle Goldberg in the NYT, “If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before Trump’s inauguration…. The closest analogue to this squalid moment is the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, when the right exploited widespread fear of communist infiltration to purge leftists from government and cultural institutions.” #mahmoudkhalil

So uh, what stage of "you can't call it fascism!"TM is it when Downmarket Mussolini sends the immigration Gestapo that pretty much answers to only him, to unlawfully arrest student protest leaders who are legally in the country, and disappear them into the labyrinth of the American migrant carceral complex?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-columbia-protests

Ice arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says

"Mahmoud Khalil was at his university-owned apartment, blocks from the private Ivy League university’s main campus in New York when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents entered the building and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told the Associated Press.

One of the agents told Greer by phone that they were executing a state department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil, who graduated last December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer.

The arrest comes as Donald Trump vows to deport foreign students and imprison “agitators” involved in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza."

As the story goes on to mention, Khalil, who is Palestinian, is in the United States on a legally-issued Green Card, which cannot be revoked by either ICE Gestapo pigs or our fascist State Department without the order of an immigration judge; which makes this an unlawful arrest and detention. What the story doesn't discuss however is that Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant, is an American citizen. I mention these things not because it would somehow be "okay" for the fascist Trump regime to snatch up a student leader for the (not illegal) "crime" of protesting a genocide if he only had a student visa, or his wife wasn't a U.S. Citizen, but to point out that clearly the administration and its security forces do not give a flying fuck about any of the rules they're violating or laws they're breaking to punish dissent. Furthermore, reports posted on social media by a person identifying themselves as Khalil's lawyer, indicate that the Department of Homeland Security has *already* moved Mahmoud, possibly as far as Georgia, and thus he does not have access to legal representation. If this were Middle Eastern country with oil reserves, our establishment would rightfully note that the regime has thus effectively "disappeared" what amounts to a political prisoner.

Folks, I don't want to sound like a broken record here, but like I've been telling you (even long before Trump was re-elected) the fact is that fascists don't give a fuck about the laws, rules, or standard operating procedures. If the law can be used to justify seizing power, eliminating civil rights, and punishing enemies they're happy to employ it. But if not, they'll replace or simply ignore any rule that gets in the way of the attempts to purge the opposition and transform society into the full on fascist dictatorship of their dreams. You don't get to let this one slide because "he's not an American," you don't care about Gaza, or you've been taught to hate student protestors by your media and the larger ruling class establishment. If Americans (including the nominal opposition in the US establishment) stand by and watch this happen to folks like Mahmoud Khalil, then it is an absolute historical certainty that it is only a matter of time before Trump is sending jackbooted thugs after anyone who won't goosestep along with the fascist order - and that includes figures in our complicit media and political classes. A whole bunch of affluent liberals have spent the past couple of years tossing around historical warnings about how Nazism and the Holocaust happened in Germany; now its time to prove you understand the lessons those words were trying to teach you about resisting the slide into overt fascism before it goes far enough that you can no longer stop it - because I assure you, if you tolerate this then (you and) your children *will* be next.

#Fascism #Trump #ICE #Gestapo #MahmoudKhalil #CivilRights #NaziGermany #PoliceState #Gaza #Genocide #Israel

If you're in the US right now and you're feeling like doomscrolling, do this instead:

I'd rather speak up for what's right, then be silent in the face of tyranny, human rights abuses, and fascism. It will cost me. I know that. But doing the right thing isn't about me, it's about all of us. All of us matter, or none of us do.

Please call your reps about the illegal detention of Mahmoud Khalil. He is a US Permanent Resident with a green card. His wife is 8 months pregnant and a US citizen. https://lnkd.in/e3cNa-78

We have a right to protest, to free speech, and for due process, and so does he.

You can find your reps here: https://www.reps.fyi

You don't need to live in in NY to call your reps. I've attached a useful script you can follow below.

#politics #mahmoudkhalil #ICE #safety #security #immigration

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was targeted for his role organizing protests against the war in Gaza.

His arrest has drawn criticism that he’s being unfairly and unlawfully targeted for his activism. The federal government is effectively making out he’s a terrorist sympathizer.

(AP) #MahmoudKhalil #Trump #USA #freespeech #Gaza #fascism

https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-immigration-ice-green-card-trump-deportation-eff078098165bbcd0d2bd315b1a7ca02

Revolut°Permanente🚩 Répression : l'État américain arrête une figure étudiante pro-Palestine de Columbia: Mahmoud Khalil, figure du mouvement pro-Palestine à l'université de Columbia, a été arrêté ce week-end. Un saut inédit dans… 🚩RP #Répression #Palestine #Columbia #MahmoudKhalil #ÉtatsUnis

Répression : l'État américain ...

Revolut°Permanente🚩 Répression : l'État américain arrête une figure étudiante pro-Palestine de Columbia: Mahmoud Khalil, figure du mouvement pro-Palestine à l'université de Columbia, a été arrêté ce week-end. Un saut inédit dans l'offensive contre les soutiens de la Palestine qui s'appuie sur les décrets signés par Trump instrumentalisant la lutte contre l'antisémitisme et déclarant la guerre aux… https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Repression-l-Etat-americain-arrete-une-figure-etudiante-pro-Palestine-de-Columbia?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon 🚩RP #Répression #Palestine #Columbia #MahmoudKhalil #ÉtatsUnis

"We are engaged with several federal agencies and are doing all we can to be responsive to their legitimate concerns and to take corrective action, under the law, to restore funding."

Columbia President Katrina Armstrong

It's all about the money. No surprise there.

via Prem Thakker

#USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine

Happening now in NYC ✊ 🇵🇸

#USPolitics #MahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine