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#GunOwners #2A #1A #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreedomofSpeech #SocialistGunClub

There are a lot of #MAGA people who claim to love Guns and their freedom of speech awfully silent about this.

PACIFISM allows you to keep your guns. Peaceful protests allow you to keep your guns. If you take away that freedom to express yourself, it only makes violence more likely. If violence becomes the only way to change government, you know full well you no longer have your guns.

"The obvious reason the #Trump administration is making an example of #Columbia is the #GazaProtests of last spring, which began on Morningside Heights and spread at warp speed around the nation. But the government is also using its anti-Palestinian crackdown as an excuse to fulfill another one of its cherished goals: to crush the influence of prestigious universities."

thenation.com/article/society/

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #ColumbiaU #PalestineSolidarity #USpol #USpolitics #StudentProtests @palestine

The Nation · Columbia Is Betraying Its Students. We Must Change Course.The administration is choosing complicity over courage in the case of Mahmoud Khalil. It’s time for the faculty to demand a new path.

#Jewish protesters flood #TrumpTower's lobby to demand the #ColumbiaUniversity #activist's release

by Cedar Attanasio, AP, 3/13/2025

New York — "Demonstrators from a Jewish group filled the lobby of #TrumpTower on Thursday to denounce the immigration arrest of #MahmoudKhalil, a #ProPalestinian activist who helped lead protests against #Israel at Columbia University.

"The demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace wore red shirts reading 'Jews say stop arming Israel' and held up banners as they chanted 'Bring Mahmoud home now!' on the lower level of the Fifth Avenue building's public atrium.

"After warning the protesters to leave, police said they arrested 98 people who stayed on various charges, including trespassing, obstruction and resisting arrest.

"Khalil, a 30-year-old permanent U.S. resident who is married to an American citizen and who hasn't been charged with breaking any laws, was arrested outside his New York City apartment Saturday and faces deportation. He's being held at an immigration detention center in Louisiana."

detroitnews.com/story/news/nat
#JewishVoiceForPeace #FreeMahmoud #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #ResistFascism #ResistRacism #BringMahmoudHomeNow #StopArmingIsrael #NotInOurName #VeteransAgainsFascism

The Detroit News · Jewish protesters flood Trump Tower's lobby to demand the Columbia University activist's releaseBy Cedar Attanasio, The Detroit News

"...the White House doesn’t care about antisemitism in the abstract. It cares about delegitimizing the left. It cares about animosity toward Jews when doing so focuses public contempt on progressives, as in Khalil’s case, and not at all when it comes from the right."

yahoo.com/news/lesser-evils-22

(Just a warning that this piece is written by a kinda conservative Zio. Facts are facts, but if you can't even read things with people you disagree with, don't click and don't @-me.)

Yahoo News · Lesser EvilsBy Nick Catoggio

Judge blocks removal of Palestinian activist who was detained at Columbia University - ABC News

abcnews.go.com/US/ice-arrests-

> In an update on Monday, his attorney, Amy Greer said she spoke with Khalil and that he is "healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament."

Greer also hinted that some of the administration's comments about Khalil, including President Trump's social media posts, may be used by Khalil's legal team to argue for his release.

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Thankfully a NYC judge has ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can not be deported until his day in court.

The only problem is that the immigration courts are backed up, having a backlog of millions of cases!

Khalil could remain in jail as a form a pre-trial detention more or less indefinitely even though by many expert opinions he's likely to win his case if he fights for his rights.

cnbc.com/2025/03/10/judge-says

CNBCJudge says Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can't be deported from U.S. as protesters call for his releaseThe Columbia University grad, who helped organize the school’s pro-Palestinian rallies, was detained Saturday night and told his student visa was being revoked, his attorney said.

US Palestinian college activist Mahmoud Khalil has been illegally arrested by ICE over the weekend.

Khalil is a green card holder and there is no known legal justification for his arrest. This appears to have been an arbitrary arrest at the direction the White House. Last I heard Khalil has not been allowed to speak to a lawyer. He has been transfered over 1000 miles to ICE detention in Louisiana.

#FreeMahmoudKhalil

I am beyond certain that #MahmoudKhalil 's lawyers know there is a process for rescinding a green card and THIS AIN'T IT. The government's sloppiness is stupid, costly, and embarrassing. This is all for show and to make us too scared to speak up. Fuck #columbiauniversity for laying down and letting this shit happen.

Immigration Authorities Arrest Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia
nytimes.com/2025/03/09/nyregio

Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia graduate student, was a fixture at the campus’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations last spring, often speaking to the news media on behalf of student protesters.
The New York Times · ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at ColumbiaBy Eliza Shapiro