Interview: "Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil"

The students demanded the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student.

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Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil

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 …

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"Coup at Columbia? School’s Capitulation to Trump"

"It feels like a kind of racial and ethnic cleansing that is happening on our campuses.”

"Students from abroad, even those with green cards & U.S. citizenship, are now terrified of being swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown."

~Former Law Prof Katherine Franke

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A “Coup” at Columbia? Former Law Prof. Katherine Franke on School’s Capitulation to Trump

Princeton has become the latest university to be targeted by the Trump administration, as the federal government pauses dozens of federal grants to the school. The news comes after the Trump administration threatened to cut off more than $8.

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Report: "Federal agents raid Columbia dorm rooms as university expels students"

"The university has suspended or expelled multiple students this week...

"while the Justice Department says it’s now examining if the protests have violated US terrorism laws."

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LIVE: Israel attack kills 9 in north Gaza as humanitarian conditions worsen

Nine people have been killed and several wounded in Israeli drone attack in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza.

^{Nils Adler (Al Jazeera)}