Mastodawn

"Come for one, face us all."

from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]

"Desperate to crush popular and growing opposition to #Israel’s genocide, the #Trump regime is shredding our First Amendment rights.

But we’re not backing down. Shortly after Mohsen was arrested, over a thousand Jews and allies gathered for an emergency Passover seder outside ICE headquarters in NYC to demand his and other student activists’ release.

Our message is clear: “Come for one, face us all.”"

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/04/16/come-for-one-face-us-all/

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#repression
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press
@palestine @israel

"Come for one, face us all." - JVP

Desperate to crush popular and growing opposition to Israel’s genocide, the Trump regime is shredding our First Amendment rights.

JVP

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸2d ago

Harvard University punished with $2b funding freeze for defying Trump

Freeze followed a letter sent on Monday to the Trump administration saying it rejects the government’s demands

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 15 April 2025 21:30 BST

"The freeze, representing 35.9 percent of #Harvard's $6.4bn operating expenses, immediately followed a letter on Monday from #HarvardUniversity lawyers to the #Trump administration, stating that it rejected the government’s demands.

The letter, issued by Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and LLP King & Spalding LLP, said that “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”"

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/harvard-university-punished-2b-funding-freeze-defying-trump

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#FreeMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine

Harvard University punished with $2b funding freeze for defying Trump

Freeze followed a letter sent on Monday to the Trump administration saying it rejects the government’s demands

Middle East Eye

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸3d ago

'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': #ICE Arrests Palestinian #Columbia Protest Leader

"He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech," said Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyer.

from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Apr 14, 2025

"A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group #Betar named #ColumbiaUniversity student #MohsenMahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of #Palestinian rights defenders, #Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen. "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/mohsen-mahdawi

'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': ICE Arrests Palestinian Columbia Protest Leader | Common Dreams

Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi, targeted by far-right group Betar, arrested at immigration office. Leaders of Palestinian rights protests facing deportation. Mahdawi detained for speaking out. Will justice prevail for him and others like him? #FreeMahdawi

Common Dreams

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸3d ago

A Palestinian activist expecting a US citizenship interview is arrested instead by #ICE in Vermont

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER
Updated 6:04 PM EDT, April 14, 2025

"A #Palestinian man who led protests against the war in #Gaza as a student at #ColumbiaUniversity was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident who has held a green card since 2015, was detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester by #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement agents, his lawyers said. "

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-palestine-protest-trump-deportation-columbia-fca7e73fe2cbd616c1eacf3bdececdbe?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech #StopTheDeportations
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

ICE arrests Palestinian activist at US citizenship interview in Vermont

A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University has been arrested at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship. Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident who has held a green card since 2015, was detained Monday. His attorneys, who have filed a petition in federal court seeking an order barring the government from removing him from the state or country, say they do not know where he is. At Columbia, he organized campus protests of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza until March 2024. He also co-founded the Palestinian Student Union with Mahmoud Khalil, another Palestinian permanent resident of the U.S. who recently was detained by ICE.

AP News

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸5d ago

Pro-#Palestinian protester’s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: ‘They were going to take my device’

Amir Makled says immigration officials questioned him about his phone’s contents. Experts warn fourth amendment rights have been weakened at the border

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Johana Bhuiyan
Sat 12 Apr 2025 08.00 EDT

"#AmirMakled thought he was being racially profiled. A Lebanese American who was born and raised in Detroit, the attorney was returning home from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic when he said an immigration official at the Detroit Metro airport asked for a “TTRT” agent after scanning his passport on Sunday. Makled said the expression on the agent’s face changed. He felt something “odd” was happening."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/amir-makled-phone-search-border-immigration?CMP=share_btn_url

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#CivilLiberties
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Pro-Palestinian protester’s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: ‘They were going to take my device’

Amir Makled says immigration officials questioned him about his phone’s contents. Experts warn fourth amendment rights have been weakened at the border

The Guardian

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸Apr 9

Judge gives Trump administration deadline to justify Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation

Jamee Comans said if evidence does not support deportation, she may rule for #Columbia graduate’s release

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Delaney Nolan in Jena, Louisiana
Tue 8 Apr 2025 17.04 EDT

"An #immigration judge ruled on Tuesday that the #Trump administration has until 5pm on Wednesday to present evidence as to why #MahmoudKhalil, the #Palestinian activist and #ColumbiaUniversity graduate, should be deported. She said that if the evidence does not support deportation, she may rule on Friday on his release from immigration detention."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-judge-deadline-trump?CMP=share_btn_url

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine

Judge gives Trump administration deadline to justify Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation

Jamee Comans said if evidence does not support deportation, she may rule for Columbia graduate’s release

The Guardian

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸Apr 7

Pro-#Palestine activists targeted for deportation hit out at #German state repression

Irish, Polish and US citizens tell MEE that #Germany and the West is in a 'fascism pipeline'

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Sal Ahmed in Berlin
Published date: 7 April 2025 16:05 BST

"On a video call, two EU nationals and an American recently served with deportation orders by Berlin’s state government for attending demonstrations against #Israel’s war on #Gaza told MEE they strongly reject accusations of #antisemitism and indirect support for #Hamas.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/germany-palestine-activists-deportation-state-repression

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#news #press @palestine

Pro-Palestine activists targeted for deportation hit out at German state repression

Irish, Polish and US citizens tell MEE that Germany and the West is in a 'fascism pipeline'

Middle East Eye

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸Apr 6

Mahmoud Khalil says his arrest was part of ‘Columbia’s repression playbook’

Green-card holder and activist led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now fighting Trump effort to deport him

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Edward Helmore
Sat 5 Apr 2025 18.17 EDT

#MahmoudKhalil, the #Columbia University student activist who led campus pro-#Palestinian rallies and is now resisting the #Trump administration’s deportation efforts, has accused the university of laying “the groundwork for my abduction” and called on the student body to continue demonstrations and protests.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university?CMP=share_btn_url

Mahmoud Khalil says his arrest was part of ‘Columbia’s repression playbook’

Green-card holder and activist led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now fighting Trump effort to deport him

The Guardian

Jimi Lend Apr 3

#Amazonwatch was in the #courtroom for the #SLAPP trial against @greenpeace It was a sham: biased jurors, judicial misconduct, and #erasure of #Indigenous #voices.
Read why this matters for us all.
👉 https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/0403-big-oils-lawfare-attacks-on-advocacy-and-accountability
#StandWithStandingRock #DefendFreeSpeech

Big Oil’s “Lawfare” Attacks on Advocacy and Accountability | Amazon Watch

This is not justice. Greenpeace will appeal, and they need all of us to mobilize in a massive international movement in support of their efforts to expose this sham trial.

Amazon Watch

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸Mar 27

US: #NewJersey school slammed for 'anti-#Palestinian' assignment on activist #MahmoudKhalil

Educational advocates and parents said the student project was an attempt to manipulate students with false information

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Azad Essa
Published date: 27 March 2025 20:05 GMT

"...in the prompts provided by the teacher, Khalil is described as a supporter of terrorism; is accused of having celebrated the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023 on southern Israel; and students who took part in the protests at Columbia University are described as "Hamas students". "

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-new-jersey-school-slammed-anti-palestinian-assignment-paper

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

US: New Jersey school slammed for 'anti-Palestinian' assignment on activist Mahmoud Khalil

Educational advocates and parents said the student project was an attempt to manipulate students with false information

Middle East Eye