Jewish students at Columbia University chained themselves to a campus gate across from the graduate School of International and Public Affairs Wednesday, braving rain and cold to demand the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student. Democracy Now! was at the protest and spoke to Jewish and Palestinian students calling on the school to reveal the extent of its involvement in Khalil’s arrest.

Jewish students chained themselves to gates at Columbia University Wednesday in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia student protest leader now in an ICE jail in Louisiana. On March 8th, federal agents detained Khalil at his university-owned apartment building, even though he’s a legal permanent resident of the United States. They revoked his green card.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Palestinians aren’t Arabs. They’ve mixed with them, but they’re the non diasporic jews. Most are Muslim yes, but that’s because Islam was very successful at getting converts at that time and place. They also contain the oldest group of Christians, and plenty of people who said fuck that to all the new prophets and messiahs as well as to the romans trying to make them leave.