Columbia Faculty, Advocates Condemn ICE Arrest of Palestinian Graduate Student Mahmoud Khalil

Описание: (11 Mar 2025)
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Thaddeus, professor of mathematics at Columbia University:
"Many of our faculty, even our tenured professors like Mr. Kalil, our green card holders, permanent residents of the United States, and many of them scientists, historians, cultural critics have said things in the course of their scholarly careers that are noxious to the present administration in Washington. The attack on Mahmoud Khalil is intended to make them quake in their boots, and to make all of us quake in our boots."

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Thaddeus, professor of mathematics at Columbia University:
"Mahmoud Khalil has not been credibly accused of any violent act. He has not been charged with any crime. If he is guilty of anything, it is guilt by association."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union:
"It is beyond the pale. It's targeted, retaliatory and an extreme attack on the First Amendment. And it reeks of McCarthyism."

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union:
"The First Amendment protects everyone in the United States, and this unlawful arrest and detention are obviously intended to intimidate and chill speech that the Trump administration doesn't like. Not just here in New York, but all across the country."

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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union:
"Political speech or speaking out should never be the basis of punishment or lead to deportation. And what's more, Mr. Khalil, like every other green card holder, has a right to due process of law."

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadia Abu El-Haj, anthropologist at Barnard College and Columbia University:
"Mahmoud tried to negotiate a resolution between students and the Barnard administration last week during a sit-in at Milstein Hall. He was filmed participating in that sit-in or being present there and as a result, various people tweeted, including one of our colleagues directly at Marco Rubio, asking for his arrest and deportation."

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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadia Abu El-Haj, anthropologist at Barnard College and Columbia University:
"Now incarcerated in a detention center in Louisiana. His green card revoked. He is at serious risk of deportation. He may well be displaced again."

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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadia Abu El-Haj, anthropologist at Barnard College and Columbia University:
"He may well be displaced again. But let us be clear, Mahmood has been detained for his political speech. It is political speech that some of our colleagues and students, and many agitators outside the university and the college, do not like. It is political speech that they have tried to shut down by slandering Palestinians and pro-Palestinian protesters as anti-Semites, and even as providing material support for terrorism, with absolutely no evidence to back it up."

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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadia Abu El-Haj, anthropologist at Barnard College and Columbia University:

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STORYLINE:
Columbia and Barnard faculty condemned the ICE detention of Palestinian graduate student Mahmoud Khalil at a press conference.


Outraged members of the faculty decried the arrest as an attack on the First Amendment and a clear case of political intimidation by the administration of President Donald Trump.



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