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Free Mahmoud Khalil

The Trump administration has illegally arrested and detained Mahmoud Khalil in direct retaliation for his advocacy in support of Palestinian rights. This egregious, unprecedented, and illegal abuse of...

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October 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM

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A reminder that "due process" does not help dismantle our violent & cruel systems of whiteness/capitalism.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Sep 18

US immigration judge said prominent pro-Palestine activist withheld information on green card application.

US judge orders deportation of activist Mahmoud Khalil to Syria or Algeria

US immigration judge said prominent pro-Palestine activist withheld information on green card application.

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September 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM

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Breaking | The Journalist Islam Abed, correspondent for Al-Quds Today channel was reported killed today by Israeli attacks in Gaza City.

August 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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June 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM

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June 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM

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June 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM

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June 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM

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Some good news! #FreeMahmoudKhalil

Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from federal immigration detention. The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday after 104 days ...

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June 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM

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Mahmoud Khalil vows to continue to ‘speak up for Palestine’ after release
Former Columbia University student was released from a detention centre on Friday after being held for more than three months.
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Mahmoud Khalil vows to continue to ‘speak up for Palestine’ after release

Former Columbia University student was released from a detention centre after being held for more than three months.

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June 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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ICE's investigative arm has turned its surveillance apparatus on a different kind of target: noncitizens on college campuses with critical views of Israel. #AbolishICE #FreeMahmoudKhalil
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Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom Despite the Best Efforts of ICE’s Intelligence Unit

Homeland Security Investigations once targeted human traffickers and cartels. Now it’s leading the charge against student protesters.

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June 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM

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#freemahmoudkhalil worked!
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"Justice prevailed," Khalil freed | Salon.com

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June 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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“Poetry makes nothing happen”—an Auden quote out of context, with a grain of truth. We must do more than art right now. We must return again and again to our connections with people who persist in the face of being starved, bombed, shot, trapped, occupied. We must tend these connections in the streets, in our homes, in difficult conversations with decision-makers, and in our own hearts.

And art also has its place in this moment. Last fall, in a completely packed and sweaty Harvard Bookstore, the words of Mosab Abu Tohah reopened my heart. He and many other Palestinian writers can help us orient to and confront our reality. Let’s be in conversation with them.

Let’s harness the power of words. May they allow all of us, from centers and peripheries, to slowly grow
a shared vision for living together on our one Earth.

Aracelis Girmay says,

“& so to tenderness I add my action.”

Free Mahmoud Khalil. Free Palestine.

...throw pillow

is for placing over
the mouth

after calling your representative
again,

for contemplating what we sent
& didn't ...

from "Throw pillow"
full poem in The Columbia Journal

June 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM

Eben E. B. Bein (they)

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#freemahmoudkhalil #freepalestine

It’s the day after summer solstice. In my new neighborhood, hundreds of bands are playing music on their porches. And I am just not able to be here.

Watching my country fund, arm, and abet genocide has sucked something out of my soul. No words can touch even the edge of the horror.

But being silent feels even worse.

And so I try imperfectly to say what I believe:

None of us will be free until the people of Palestine are also free. May we resist every justification for occupation, starvation, and slaughter like our own humanity is at stake because it is.

A year ago, I submitted some non-Gaza-related poems to the Columbia Journal, a publication run by MFA students at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Then, a lot went down, including that the Trump administration accused Palestinian advocate and Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil of being a "national security threat" and the university administration capitulated to his arrest and detainment without charge. A few months later, I received an acceptance note in my inbox.

Unsure what to do, I reached out to the student editors to learn about their curation duties and efforts to hold up artful and timely political expression. I asked them to take a small risk with me. They agreed to add one more poem.

June 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM

White House Watchdog

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Mahmoud Khalil, an activist detained for protesting, is released after 104 days, vowing to continue opposing the Trump administration's immigration policies. #FreeMahmoudKhalil #JusticePrevails

'Justice Will Prevail,' Says Khalil After Release From ICE Detention

Mahmoud Khalil, an activist detained for protesting, is released after 104 days, vowing to continue opposing the Trump administration's immigration policies. #FreeMahmoudKhalil #JusticePrevails

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June 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM

Carine Thibaut

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Après 104 jours de détention injustifiée par l'administration #Trump, Mahmoud Khalil est enfin libre ❤️

Il n'aurait jamais dû être détenu

nous célébrons sa libération, nous ne cesserons jamais de défendre le droit de protester contre un #génocide

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Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil released from ICE, speaks out

YouTube video by CBS News

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June 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM

A Thread Of Hope

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Jun 21

BREAKING: After a federal judge ordered his release, today around 7pm local time Mahmoud Khalil walked out of Trump’s torture prison in Louisiana after 104 days of suffering.

“No one is illegal—no human is illegal. Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try.”
— Mahmoud Khalil