A US immigration court has ruled that a peaceful protest for #Palestinian rights is a national security risk justifying #deportation.
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-protester-ruling-deport-fd9e80583af3109d7de0a5264e79ea61
#MahmoudKhalil "isn’t accused of breaking any laws during the protests at #Columbia."
#OnThisDay Yuri Gagarin becomes first human to travel to outer #space (1961). This day is celebrated as International Day of Human Space Flight.
#NASA launched the first #SpaceShuttle #Columbia (1981).
The #Polio #Vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective (1955).
Your first amendment rights just went right out the window!
Judge permits Trump administration to deport Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-order-columbia-student-mahmoud-khalil-rcna200835
Breaking: A US #immigration #judge has ruled that the #deportation case against #MahmoudKhalil can proceed, a month after the #Columbia student was detained over his involvement in pro #Palestine #protest.
The threat to #academics' livelihoods at universities including #Yale, #Columbia & #JohnsHopkins has given #Europe's political leaders hope they could reap an #intellectual windfall.
A letter, reviewed by Reuters, signed in March by 13 European countries including #France, #Germany & #Spain, urged the #EU Commission to move fast to attract #academic talent.
Trying to imagine this happening to Oxford, Cambridge or Sorbonne…it would only happen if there had been a fascist coup:
#Trump administration considers placing #Columbia University under a consent decree.
The administration has frozen nearly $1bn in funding from #Cornell.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/trump-columbia-consent-decree
A #ConsentDecree, which can last for years, would give a federal judge responsibility for ensuring #ColumbiaUniversity changes its practices along lines laid out by #Trump’s admin. If such a decree is in place, #Columbia would have to comply with it. If a judge determines the #school is out of compliance, it could be held in contempt of court, punishable by penalties including fines.
No.
#Trump Wants to Install Federal Oversight of #ColumbiaUniversity
In an unusual move, the govt is aiming to legally bind the school to changes as they negotiate over federal #funding.
The Trump admin is planning to pursue a legal arrangement that would put #Columbia into a #ConsentDecree, an extraordinary step that could significantly escalate the pressure on the school as it battles for federal funding.
#law #education #FreeSpeech #AntiIntellectualism #MafiaState
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-consent-decree-trump-federal-funding-2f4c4690
Franke was ‘retired’ by the university for pointing out that Israeli students, straight out military service in Gaza, were harassing and even assaulting her Palestinian students, and this was a growing problem.
The university judged this was discriminatory; and collaborated in slandering Khalil, leading to him getting disappeared.
Interview with Katherine Franke, an ex-Columbia professor familiar with Mahmoud Khalil.
The details make the university look even worse.
She speculates (without proof) that ‘pro-Israel’ (i.e. Likud or further right) faculty are helping the Trump admin write the demands on themselves.
But even based on public knowledge it was never just surrender in advance; it’s been a collaboration from the start.
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud #Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against #Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.
Kill peaceful protest and free speech on campus or we end your research.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-all-research-grants-columbia-university
Columbia capitulated and still lost. Lessons for other universities
"Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice"
Judge tells government to provide evidence, or case against Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil is over
An immigration judge in Louisiana said she would terminate the case against Mahmoud Khalil if the government does not provide evidence this week justifying their attempted deportation of the Columbia University student activist.
Judge gives Trump administration deadline to justify Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation
Jamee Comans said if evidence does not support deportation, she may rule for #Columbia graduate’s release
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Delaney Nolan in Jena, Louisiana
Tue 8 Apr 2025 17.04 EDT
"An #immigration judge ruled on Tuesday that the #Trump administration has until 5pm on Wednesday to present evidence as to why #MahmoudKhalil, the #Palestinian activist and #ColumbiaUniversity graduate, should be deported. She said that if the evidence does not support deportation, she may rule on Friday on his release from immigration detention."
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine
https://www.alojapan.com/1241646/a-bridge-between-the-city-and-the-outdoors-report-on-columbia-black-label-in-osaka-feature/ A bridge between the city and the outdoors. Report on Columbia Black Label in Osaka . | feature #columbia #COLUMBIABLACKLABEL #fashion #Osaka #OsakaTopics #アーバンアウトドア #コロンビア #コロンビアブラックレーベル #大阪 #大阪府 PROFILE . A stylist active in various media and advertisements, mainly in the Kansai region. In recent years, he has expanded his field of work to Tokyo and started his own brand, “tashite. He is also attracting attention as a multi-talented creator…
La Universidad de Columbia toma duras medidas contra los que abogan a favor de #Palestina
La universidad cede ante la presión y los ataques a la libertad de expresión por parte de la administración Trump
de #PanoramaMundial / #WorldOutlook
abril 7, 2025
"El artículo a continuación fue publicado por primera vez el 25 de marzo de 2025 por el diario británico #TheGuardian."
"En su breve ensayo, #Khalidi describe con precisión cómo #Columbia está amordazando a los estudiantes y profesores que se han opuesto a la masiva matanza de #palestinos en #Gaza por parte de #Israel, al tiempo que los funcionarios universitarios viran más a la derecha bajo la presión de la administración #Trump."
#USA #US #USPolitics #español #ES
#EstadosUnidos #politica #prensa #noticias #EEUU
#Palestine #MedioOriente #AsiaOccidental #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press @palestine
La Universidad de Columbia toma duras medidas contra los que abogan a favor de #Palestina
La universidad cede ante la presión y los ataques a la libertad de expresión por parte de la administración Trump
de #PanoramaMundial / #WorldOutlook
abril 7, 2025
"El artículo a continuación fue publicado por primera vez el 25 de marzo de 2025 por el diario británico #TheGuardian."
"En su breve ensayo, #Khalidi describe con precisión cómo #Columbia está amordazando a los estudiantes y profesores que se han opuesto a la masiva matanza de #palestinos en #Gaza por parte de #Israel, al tiempo que los funcionarios universitarios viran más a la derecha bajo la presión de la administración #Trump."
#USA #US #USPolitics #EEUU
#Palestine #MedioOriente #AsiaOccidental #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press @palestine
Mahmoud Khalili’s Letter to #Columbia from jail: “The student movement will continue to carry the mantle of a free #Palestine. History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence.”
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/mahmoud-khalils-letter-to-columbia-from-jail/
#Columbia's recuiters are having problems finding new students too. Something about 'tarnished brand'. But that patina has been growing since 1968 when it had a bunch of students beaten and jailed by the NYPigD for protesting the building of a new gymnasium in the ghetto next to it, displacing a number of poor black people @AliceMarshall I was there for that occupation as an antiwar activist kid.
