#protestisnotacrime
Palestinian student #MohsenMahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’
Mahdawi was targeted and arrested for deportation due to his activism but the permanent US resident is resuming postgraduate studies
Anna Betts
Tue 2 Sep 2025 16.33 ET
Mohsen Mahdawi, the 34-year-old #Palestinian student and #US permanent resident, returned to #ColumbiaUniversity on Tuesday and vowed to continue speaking out.
“They have failed to silence me, and in fact, now I am more outspoken than before, and I will continue to work for peace and justice. I do this work not for myself alone – I do this for the future of children, whether they are Palestinians or #Israelis,” he told the Guardian on Tuesday in his first interview since stepping back on to campus to begin his graduate studies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-university-palestinian
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New Trump Order Among 'Scariest Things I've Seen in US Politics,' Civil Rights Attorney Says
The new order, he says, would essentially allow "random fascist vigilantes" to "sign up to be a Brownshirt" for Trump's militarized occupation forces.
from #CommonDreams
Stephen Prager
Aug 26, 2025
...it orders the secretary to create a "standing #NationalGuard quick reaction force" that "can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate," not just in the nation's capital but in "other cities where public safety and order has been lost."
Monday's order calls for the creation of "an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience." Agency heads then "shall each deputize the members of this unit to enforce federal law."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-vigilante-portal
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#USA #US #USPol #politics #Trump
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How #Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image
#ColumbiaUniversity President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of #Trump's demands.
from #TheIntercept
Meghnad Bose, Anna Oakes
August 7 2025, 10:10 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
this is a repost of https://sociale.network/@gubi/115003955787654526
with alt text added to the pic, plus 2 groups and some hashtags
#Alt4You
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If you want to protest in UK against a government that outlawed the pacifist organization "Palestine Action" with the anti-terrorism law, here is a plan for you:
1) Print the T-Shirt of the image below
2) Make a trip to UK
3) Wear the shirt at a public rally
4) Get unduly arrested under terrorism act for speaking the truth as nonviolent resistance against the authoritarian nature of regimes supporting ongoing genocide.
@palestine@lemmy.ml @gubi
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
@palestine@a.gup.pe
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.
#DefendFreeSpeech
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#DefendStudentProtesters
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#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
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#news #press @palestine
Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
#RashidKhalidi, in open letter published by #Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlement
from #TheGuardian
Dani Anguiano
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions #Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the #Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.
Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the #Israel-#Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.
@palestine
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Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump
Protesters demonstrate at about 2,000 sites nationwide on day US president holds military parade in Washington
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis, Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles and Melissa Hellmann in Philadelphia
Sat 14 Jun 2025 18.45 EDT
"“No Kings organizers estimated the day’s events have so far drawn millions of people, with some hundreds still under way in all 50 states and to some cities abroad. These included over 200,000 in New York and over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus some small towns with sizable crowds for their populations, including the town of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400 people join the protest in their 800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.”"
#NoKingsProtest #NoKings #DefendRuleOfLaw #DefendFreeSpeech
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#ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release #MahmoudKhalil
A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the #ColumbiaUniversity graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
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#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
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“When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not ill-treat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."
— Leviticus 19.33-34
Pew pew.
Live footage of an officer being injured during the #LAProtests
#losangeles
#ProtestIsNotACrime
Most of the time when people hear the word "protest," two questions subconciously go through their minds:
"How are people protesting?"
"Where are people protesting?"
The important question that is NEVER focused on first is "WHAT are people protesting?"
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.
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#ReturnKilmarAlbertoGarcia
#StopTheDeportations
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#ProjectEsther: #NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of #Israel” as #Hamas Supporters
from #DemocracyNow
Interview with-
Katie J.M. Baker
investigative reporter for The #NewYorkTimes
Stefanie Fox
executive director of #JewishVoiceForPeace.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/19/project_esther
#StopGazaGenocide
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
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Freed from #ICE custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers
from #AssociatedPress #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025
"NEW YORK (#AP) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the #Palestinian activist #MohsenMahdawi strode across the graduation stage at #ColumbiaUniversity on Monday morning, savoring a moment the #Trump administration had fought to make impossible.
Draped in a keffiyeh, Mahdawi, 34, paused to listen to the swell of cheers from his fellow graduates. Then he joined a vigil just outside #Columbia’s gates, raising a photograph of his classmate Mahmoud Khalil, who remains in federal custody."
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-graduation-mohsen-mahdawi-b17b3d7514d760af8835eaf909fb83ac?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
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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.””
https://world-outlook.com/2025/05/16/in-graduation-speech-nyu-student-condemns-u-s-backed-israeli-war-in-gaza/
#StopGazaGenocide
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
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#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfquvyUKJj4
RED #ALERT
Source: #ABCTVChicago
#Greencard holder and #PalestinianActivist #MahmoudKhalil , who led protests at #ColumbiaUniversity , was targeted by #ICE and detained.
He is married to an 8 months pregnant U.S. citizen. ICE refuses to tell his partner where he is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWCVfpdTwDg&pp=ygUKb3dlbiBqb25lcw%3D%3D
Police 
SHUT DOWN #BBCGazaProtest -- But New Revelations Will Shock You
Guest: #BenJamal
18 January in front of the BBC
from #TheGuardian
American killed in West Bank was longtime activist ‘bearing witness to oppression’, friends say
#AyşenurEygi ‘was not a naive traveler – This experience was the culmination of all her years of activism’, says professor
Sam Levin in Los Angeles
Fri 6 Sep 2024 19.48 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/06/aysenur-eygi-american-killed-west-bank
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#AysenurEyziEygi #Eygi
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics #MiddleEast
#media #news #press
@palestine @israel
from #NewYorkTimes
[gift article - expires in 30 days]
Opinion - M. Gessen
Aug. 10, 2024
#KamalaHarris Is Speaking. Is She Listening?
[About the pro-Palestine hecklers at the Harris rally in Detroit ] - "They cannot stand to live in a world in which Joe #Biden’s vice president, who has not voiced any disagreement with the administration’s #MiddleEast policies, wins the presidency. It’s not that they want #Trump to win; it’s that the level of political cynicism they are being asked to adopt feels unbearable."
#Uncommitted
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#NotAnotherBomb
#RejectAIPAC
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#EndTheOccupation #PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
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