Jewish students at Columbia University chained themselves to a campus gate across from the graduate School of International and Public Affairs Wednesday, braving rain and cold to demand the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student. Democracy Now! was at the protest and spoke to Jewish and Palestinian students calling on the school to reveal the extent of its involvement in Khalil’s arrest.

Jewish students chained themselves to gates at Columbia University Wednesday in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia student protest leader now in an ICE jail in Louisiana. On March 8th, federal agents detained Khalil at his university-owned apartment building, even though he’s a legal permanent resident of the United States. They revoked his green card.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    13·
    8 hours ago

    Crazy a bunch of antismetites chained themselves to a gate, because as we know antisemitism is when Jewish people (one semetic group) stands in solidarity with Arabs (another semetic group). Specifically its antisemtisim because a bunch of Right wing European politicians (who arent semetic) got offended

    /s

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Palestinians aren’t Arabs. They’ve mixed with them, but they’re the non diasporic jews. Most are Muslim yes, but that’s because Islam was very successful at getting converts at that time and place. They also contain the oldest group of Christians, and plenty of people who said fuck that to all the new prophets and messiahs as well as to the romans trying to make them leave.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    72·
    19 hours ago

    They’re obviously antisemites…

    (And /s, because in the current climate, that may not be obvious)

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      422·
      18 hours ago

      Here is everyone’s nearly daily reminder that there is a difference between antisemitism and antizionism.

      Criticizing the Israeli government and its leaders is not the same as criticising all Jewish people.

      The Zionists want to conflate these things so they can hide in plain sight and have people that aren’t paying attention defend their war crimes.