How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

Alistair Kitchen on being detained at Los Angeles International Airport and sent back to Australia because of his reporting on the protests at Columbia University criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

The New Yorker
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025

#TuesdayColumn: The arrest-without-cause of #MahmoudKhalil by zealous #ICE agents on #MarcoRubio impulse proves nothing new. The #USA has never been a law-abiding state... #deportationwithoutcause #columbiaprotests #WaronGaza #GenocideOnGaza #writing #politics #civilliberties #civilrights

A Once and Future Autocracy:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/a-once-and-future-autocracy/

A Once and Future Autocracy

Last weekend (March 1st), ICE agents stormed a Columbia University dorm to arrest Mahmoud Khalil, green card-carrying permanent resident in the US, because his involvement in the student protests a…

WastedWords

Excellent piece from The Forward debunking several of the primary myths and conspiracy theories about the campus demonstrations, including #SaharTartak 's claim that she was "stabbed" in the eye for "being Jewish". (She wasn't.) #Gaza #ColumbiaProtests

https://forward.com/opinion/608230/jews-have-to-stop-believing-conspiracy-theories-yale-columbia-antisemitism/

Can American Jews step back from the brink of conspiratorial paranoia?

Anxiety over incidents at Yale and Columbia have led people to keep propagating exaggerations and lies

The Forward

Pretty sure #robbysoave just kicked his own asz in the debate over whether students should be allowed access to food they're paying for. 🥴#TheHill #rising

He was soooo sure he was gonna end up paying her student loans. 😭 #columbiaprotests #politics #studentprotests

cr https://youtube.com/watch?v=D_TrzOfKqFE

Columbia Protester MOCKED For Food And Water Demands; ‘Humanitarian Aid’—Watch

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What to know about the UCLA, Columbia student protests
Police have swept through campuses in the U.S. in response to protests calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies that support the conflict in Gaza.
#globalnews #USNews #Columbiaprotests #UCLA
https://globalnews.ca/news/10461874/what-to-know-about-the-ucla-columbia-student-protests/
What to know about the UCLA, Columbia student protests

Police have swept through campuses across the U.S. in response to protests calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies that support the war in Gaza.

Global News
What to know about the UCLA, Columbia student protests
Police have swept through campuses across the U.S. in response to protests calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies that support the war in Gaza.
#globalnews #USNews #Columbiaprotests #UCLA
https://globalnews.ca/news/10461874/what-to-know-about-the-ucla-columbia-student-protests/
What to know about the UCLA, Columbia student protests

Police have swept through campuses across the U.S. in response to protests calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies that support the war in Gaza.

Global News
In the spring of 1985, we had an Apartheid protest and occupied a building. Those of us inside were advised we would be arrested if we didn’t’t leave. We were told to walk out with the cops when arrested or go limp and they would carry us out. When the cops arrived they were in regular plain cop uniforms. We were taken to school buses and transported to a local school and given notices to appear. Why do the schools and cops feel the need to escalate. #Columbia #ColumbiaProtests #GazaProtests

Over 100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested at Columbia University as police cleared a campus encampment authorized by President Nemat Minouche Shafik amid ongoing tensions over Israel's actions in Gaza.

The move follows recent criticisms of Shafik at a House antisemitism hearing.

#ColumbiaProtests #CampusNews