Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has said the Trump administration failed to suppress pro-Palestinian voices, following his release from more than three months in immigration detention. “My existence is a message” to the Trump administration, he told the BBC after returning to New Jersey from a detention centre in Louisiana. “All these attempts to suppress...
A federal judge ordered Columbia University student and activist Mahmoud Khalil to be released on bail after he has spent over three months in detention, US media reports. Mr Khalil became a symbol of the the Trump administration’s high-profile crackdown on universities and foreign students when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in New...
The Department of Education put out a press release today announcing that Columbia University is in violation of anti-discrimination laws and therefore fails to meet standards for accreditation. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today notified Middle States Commission on Higher Education (the Commission) that its member institution, Columbia University, is...
Last month a man named Tarek Bazrouk was charged with federal hate crimes after he was involved in 3 separate attacks on Jewish protesters in New York. A press release from the DOJ described the details of all three attacks. According to court documents, other public filings, and statements previously made on the record in...
I guess the positive note here is that at least this year Columbia University was able to hold a graduation ceremony. Last year it had to be canceled because the school couldn’t clear the quad in time to host it. This year, the graduation turned into an embarrassing moment where the school’s president got to...
Columbia University President Claire Shipman was booed during a graduation ceremony on Tuesday, with chants of “Free Mahmoud” heard drowning her out. Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate was detained by US immigration officials in March over his role in pro-Palestinian protests on campus. He is a permanent legal US resident and has not been...
In his first live interview since his release from ICE detention, Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi recounts the traumatic experience of his arrest and incarceration. Mahdawi, a green card holder who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, was arrested in Vermont on April 14 when...
Columbia’s response to the library takeover Wednesday is winning plaudits from the Trump administration. Yesterday the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism issued a statement praising President Shipman and pressing for follow-up disciplinary action. The Task Force is encouraged by Acting President Shipman’s strong and resolute statement regarding the unlawful, violent and disgraceful takeover of...
As Ed just pointed out, Columbia did a better job handling the pro-Hamas activists on campus yesterday than it has previously. In the evening nearly 80 students who had refused to identify themselves were arrested. I wanted to follow up on a few loose threads. NYPD now arresting student protestors from Columbia University library @CBSNewYork...
Watch: Moment protesters storm into Columbia University library New York police have arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters after they occupied part of the main library at Columbia University on Wednesday. Two university security officers were injured when protesters forced their way into Butler Library on Wednesday, according to a statement from University President Claire Shipman,...
Here we go again. It’s apparently reading week at Columbia University which means lots of students are preparing for final exams in the quiet campus library. No doubt that’s why a group of Hamas supporters decided to take over the library today. They want to create maximum disruption on campus. Here they are shoving their...
Columbia University hasn’t been in the news as much lately. It was just shy of two weeks ago that NBC News caught wind of secret meetings taking place off campus with the goal of restoring the tent encampment for Hamas that had been set up last year. The coordinating meeting took place at a community...
A Columbia University student and Palestinian activist arrested by US immigration authorities has been released from custody, US media reports. Mohsen Mahdawi, who has permanent US residency or “green card” status, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) when he turned up at an American citizenship interview in Vermont in mid-April. Mr Mahdawi’s...
Mohsen Mahdawi, one of the leaders of the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University was ordered released on bail by a Vermont judge today. In ruling to release Mr. Mahdawi on bail, Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford of Federal District Court in Vermont found on Wednesday that he did not pose a danger to the public and...
Something must have happened on the way to the revolution. Earlier this week NBC News revealed that the pro-Hamas activists at Columbia were gearing up for another tent encampment on campus. Last year’s encampment inspired copycat encampments on colleges across the country. It also led to Columbia not being able to hold its main graduation...