Mahmoud Khalil Suing Columbia for Allegedly Failing to Protect Anti-Israel Students
“We are suing because no student, regardless of their background, should go through the hell that Columbia put us through over all these years”...
“We are suing because no student, regardless of their background, should go through the hell that Columbia put us through over all these years”...
He later represented Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University activist detained by ICE, and was tapped by Mamdani as chief counsel last December. ...
Khalil cited 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), known as the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 (“KKK Act”), and § 1986 in his complaint....
Khalil's deportation now falls under the federal court case....
"Did the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) strip the New Jersey District Court of subject matter jurisdiction? It did."...
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"accompanied now by private security"...
"US District Judge Michael Farbiarz announced the decision from the bench in New Jersey"...
The judge's injunction won't "go into effect unless and until the Petitioner posts a nominal bond in the amount of $1."...
"The chants continued for nearly 30 seconds."...
"demand school become a “sanctuary campus” and divest from Jewish state"...
"Why should protesting Israel’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?"...
The judge gave Khalil's attorneys "until April 23 to file relief applications."...
"He also claimed, without citing evidence, that fellow students who spoke out against antisemitism were serving in the Israeli military during school vacations."...
"There is only one solution, intifada revolution"...
“contemporary allegations of ‘antisemitism’ chill free speech and political dissent just as McCarthy-era accusations of communism did”...
"We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses."...
"A visa is a privilege not a right. Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is commonsense security."...
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