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The Columbia graduate student was supposed to attend the graduation celebration. Instead, he is in immigration detention, caught up in Trump’s crackdown on foreign students.
Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman on Wednesday bizarrely chose to stoke the flames by acknowledging arrested ex-grad student Mahmoud Khalil at the Ivy League school’s chaotic
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The Forward on MSNAt Columbia’s commencement, Mahmoud Khalil and free speech loom largeMohsen Mahdawi, another pro-Palestinian student who had been detained, walked across the stage to a standing ovation from the crowd.
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Free speech is one of the foundations of our freedom, but that's in jeopardy. Jailing students for political views endangers First Amendment protections.
Mahmoud Khalil, the detained Palestinian activist who has become the public face of the Columbia University protests, got to hold his newborn child for the first time on Thursday ahead of his next