Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues [with photos]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/students-walk-out-decry-ice-as-surge-continues

from#MPRNews
Elizabeth Shockman and Kyra Miles
January 13, 2026 4:00 AM

h/t: world-outlook.com

Hundreds of #TwinCities #HighSchool #students walked out of school Monday to #protest federal #immigration enforcement in #Minnesota, and some school leaders in the region are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism with families fearing being caught up in #US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

An estimated 500 high school students walked out of Roseville High School Monday morning, walking from their school, around the parking lot and onto a bridge over Minnesota Highway 36 in Roseville.

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US judge orders deportation of activist #MahmoudKhalil to Syria, Algeria

#US immigration judge said prominent pro-#Palestine activist withheld information on green card application.

From #AlJazeera
18 Sep 2025

Court documents, revealed on Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), showed that Louisiana immigration Judge Jamee Comans issued the ruling on September 12, accusing Khalil of failing to disclose key information when he applied and secured lawful permanent residency in the US.

Judge Comans claimed that Khalil did not disclose his ties to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and #Columbia University Apartheid Divest, an activist group which advocates for an economic boycott of #Israel, on his green card application, describing it as a “lack of candor” by the applicant.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/18/us-judge-orders-deportation-of-activist-mahmoud-khalil-to-syria-algeria

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University of #Michigan still punishing pro-#Palestine students after graduating

Arbitration hearings carried out this summer are overreach, former students say

from #MiddleEastEye
By #MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025

A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the #UniversityOfMichigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.

Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.

All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on #Gaza on 21 May 2024. He was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/university-michigan-still-trying-discipline-pro-palestine-students-after-graduation-job

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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/

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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.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-open-letter?CMP=share_btn_url

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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.

https://world-outlook.com/2025/07/23/those-attacking-pro-palestinian-student-protests-endanger-jews/

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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.” "

https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-ice-release-trump-columbia-protests-570f7af32010c16b1a00dd7e78f4c687?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

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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

https://archive.ph/o4Lvd

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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.”"

https://forward.com/news/726133/greenblatt-adl-protesters-terrorists/

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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."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance?CMP=share_btn_url

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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.

https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-doj-dhs-columbia-university-f802564cf42c31b11fec99730d53ee5b?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

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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.”"

https://apnews.com/article/badar-khan-suri-georgetown-immigration-case-65e9a9675c29ebe91b39eb647d1d6f18?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

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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

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#MahmoudKhalil blocked from holding son for first time by #ICE, lawyers say

Detained #Columbia University graduate and #Palestinian activist forced to meet month-old baby from behind glass

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Léonie Chao-Fong in Washington
Wed 21 May 2025 18.24 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/mahmoud-khalil-newborn-son?CMP=share_btn_url

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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.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregion/columbia-president-booed-commencement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.AmRJ.IRfBvbjPRrlA&smid=url-share

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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.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/project-esther-heritage-foundation-palestine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IE8.JoP3.DEy94beG0yWy&smid=url-share

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“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."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/16/mohsen_mahdawi_columbia_university

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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/

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NYU withholds diploma of student who condemned Israel in graduation speech

University says it ‘strongly denounces’ commencement speech by Logan Rozos, who called out ‘atrocities’ in Gaza

From #TheGuardian
Maya Yang
Thu 15 May 2025 14.19 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/nyu-withholds-diploma-israel-gaza-speech?CMP=share_btn_url

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#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."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/judge-order-release-khan-suri-ice?CMP=share_btn_url

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