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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong><em>Those Attacking Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Endanger Jews</em></strong></p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WorldOutlook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldOutlook</span></a><br>July 23, 2025</p><p><strong>It’s Not Gaza Campus Protests That Endanger Jews, It’s Misguided Efforts to ‘Protect’ Them</strong></p><p><em>What truly poses a danger to <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> today is not young people demanding peace on campuses, it’s the way in which authorities, both university and governmental, but also the Jewish establishment, respond</em></p><p>article below was first published by Haaretz<br>July 22, 2025</p><blockquote><blockquote><p>Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students.</p><p>Kahlenberg, who is <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a>, graduated this spring from the University of Texas, Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>’s genocidal war in <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://world-outlook.com/2025/07/23/those-attacking-pro-palestinian-student-protests-endanger-jews/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">world-outlook.com/2025/07/23/t</span><span class="invisible">hose-attacking-pro-palestinian-student-protests-endanger-jews/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>Freed from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> detention, <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> files $20 million claim against Trump administration</p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AssociatedPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AssociatedPress</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AP</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/APNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APNews</span></a><br>By JAKE OFFENHARTZ<br>Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025</p><p>[good article - contains interview excerpts and photos]</p><p>"Inside, Khalil said he was denied his ulcer medication, forced to sleep under harsh fluorescent lights and fed “nearly inedible” food, causing him to lose 15 pounds (7 kilograms). “I cannot remember a night when I didn’t go to sleep hungry,” Khalil recalled.</p><p>Meanwhile, the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration publicly celebrated the arrest, promising to deport him and others whose protests against <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> it dubbed “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” "</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-ice-release-trump-columbia-protests-570f7af32010c16b1a00dd7e78f4c687?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha</span><span class="invisible">lil-ice-release-trump-columbia-protests-570f7af32010c16b1a00dd7e78f4c687?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationOfR%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationOfMohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationOfMohsenMahdawi</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>‘Justice Will Prevail,’ <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> Says as He Goes Free on Bail</p><p>Mr. Khalil, a <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> graduate, had been held in Louisiana for over three months as the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration sought to deport him. A judge found reason to believe it was retaliation for his pro-<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> speech. </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a><br>[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.] </p><p>By Jonah E. Bromwich<br>June 20, 2025</p><p>"On Friday, Judge Farbiarz rebuked the government mildly, noting that it had offered no evidence to suggest that Mr. Khalil was a danger to his community. The administration’s claims about his links to, or even sympathies for, <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> have not been substantiated in court.</p><p>“He is not a danger to the community, period, full stop,” the judge said."</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-release-order.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.dMKz.RU9OBV-tBMhJ&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/20/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/mahmoud-khalil-release-order.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.dMKz.RU9OBV-tBMhJ&amp;smid=url-share</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DueProcessForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcessForAll</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump</p><p>Protesters demonstrate at about 2,000 sites nationwide on day US president holds military parade in Washington </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guardian</span></a><br>Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis, Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles and Melissa Hellmann in Philadelphia<br>Sat 14 Jun 2025 18.45 EDT </p><p>"“No Kings organizers estimated the day’s events have so far drawn millions of people, with some hundreds still under way in all 50 states and to some cities abroad. These included over 200,000 in New York and over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus some small towns with sizable crowds for their populations, including the town of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400 people join the protest in their 800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/no-kings-protests-trump-military-parade?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">un/14/no-kings-protests-trump-military-parade?CMP=share_btn_url</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoKingsProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKingsProtest</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendRuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRuleOfLaw</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br>USA <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> </p><p>A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.</p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a> <br>By Jonah E. Bromwich<br>June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/o4Lvd" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/o4Lvd</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReleaseMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForR%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendRuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendRuleOfLaw</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DueProcessForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcessForAll</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ADL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADL</span></a> chief compares student protesters to Islamist terrorists</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/JonathanGreenblatt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JonathanGreenblatt</span></a> also said protests against <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> were driven by ‘same kind of nihilists’ who participated in Black Lives Matter</p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheForward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheForward</span></a><br>[<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> publication from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p><p>By Arno Rosenfeld and Jacob Kornbluh June 6, 2025</p><p>[contains links to audio of his speech]</p><p>"“We are an apolitical, non-partisan organization, but you have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see what’s happening on the left,” <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Greenblatt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenblatt</span></a> said Friday, according to audio from the event obtained by the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Forward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Forward</span></a>.</p><p>“There is a throughline from Occupy Wall Street to BLM to ‘defund the police’ to ‘River to the Sea,’” he added, referring to the Black Lives Matter movement launched a decade ago to protest police violence. “They are the same people, these are the same kind of nihilists.”"</p><p><a href="https://forward.com/news/726133/greenblatt-adl-protesters-terrorists/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/news/726133/greenb</span><span class="invisible">latt-adl-protesters-terrorists/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>Freed from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AssociatedPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AssociatedPress</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/APNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APNews</span></a><br> By JAKE OFFENHARTZ<br>Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025<br> <br>"NEW YORK (<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AP</span></a>) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> activist <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MohsenMahdawi</span></a> strode across the graduation stage at <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> on Monday morning, savoring a moment the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration had fought to make impossible.</p><p>Draped in a keffiyeh, Mahdawi, 34, paused to listen to the swell of cheers from his fellow graduates. Then he joined a vigil just outside <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a>’s gates, raising a photograph of his classmate Mahmoud Khalil, who remains in federal custody."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-graduation-mohsen-mahdawi-b17b3d7514d760af8835eaf909fb83ac?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/columbia-un</span><span class="invisible">iversity-graduation-mohsen-mahdawi-b17b3d7514d760af8835eaf909fb83ac?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share</span></a> <br> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReleaseMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForR%C3%BCmeysa%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Jimi Lend<p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Amazonwatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazonwatch</span></a> was in the <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/courtroom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courtroom</span></a> for the <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/SLAPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLAPP</span></a> trial against <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>greenpeace</span></a></span> It was a sham: biased jurors, judicial misconduct, and <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/erasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erasure</span></a> of <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/voices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voices</span></a>.<br>Read why this matters for us all.<br>👉 <a href="https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/0403-big-oils-lawfare-attacks-on-advocacy-and-accountability" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amazonwatch.org/news/2025/0403</span><span class="invisible">-big-oils-lawfare-attacks-on-advocacy-and-accountability</span></a> <br><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Georgetown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Georgetown</span></a> Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/BadarKhanSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadarKhanSuri</span></a> was detained by <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> groups. </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DropSiteNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DropSiteNews</span></a> <br>Archit and Murtaza Hussain<br>Mar 19 </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Suri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Suri</span></a>'s arrest comes after an exceptionally public media campaign targeting his wife, <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MaphezeSaleh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaphezeSaleh</span></a>, by pro-Israel groups. Saleh, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian background, is the daughter of <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AhmedYousef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AhmedYousef</span></a>, a former political advisor to the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a>-led government in the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> Strip, after the group gained control there in 2006. <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Yousef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yousef</span></a> has been a writer and commentator on Hamas in recent years for major Western media publications, including the New York Times and The Guardian.<br> <br><a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown-postdoc-the-latest-to?publication_id=2510348&amp;post_id=159450359&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=fzerp&amp;triedRedirect=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown-</span><span class="invisible">postdoc-the-latest-to?publication_id=2510348&amp;post_id=159450359&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=fzerp&amp;triedRedirect=true</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/LetGazaLive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetGazaLive</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WestAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestAsia</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Yale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yale</span></a> Suspends Scholar After A.I.-Powered News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link</p><p>The deputy director of a liberal project at <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/YaleLawSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YaleLawSchool</span></a> was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Samidoun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Samidoun</span></a>, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists. </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a><br>[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.] <br>[Bias alert - <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a> usually favors Israel]</p><p>By Stephanie Saul<br>March 12, 2025 Updated 1:07 p.m. ET</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/yale-suspends-scholar-terrorism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U4.VFme.ZrVrJQTmp5w2&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/yale</span><span class="invisible">-suspends-scholar-terrorism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U4.VFme.ZrVrJQTmp5w2&amp;smid=url-share</span></a> <br> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/SolidarityWithPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolidarityWithPalestine</span></a> is <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NotAntisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotAntisemitism</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea</span></a> is <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NotAntisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotAntisemitic</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/JewHatredHurtsPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JewHatredHurtsPalestine</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WestAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestAsia</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>