Immigration officials have arrested a second person who participated in Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, and have revoked the visa of another student, they announced Friday. Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested by immigration officers for overstaying her student visa, the Department of Homeland Security said. Kordia’s visa was terminated in…
US President Donald Trump on Monday warned that the recent arrest and possible deportation of pro-Palestinian student-activist, Mahmoud Khalil, is the “first of many to come” as his administration cracks down on student demonstrations against Israel and the ongoing Gaza war. In a long post on Truth Social, the 78-year-old President claimed that several of…
Federal immigration authorities on Saturday arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who played a significant role in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University in New York. Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University, had been involved in major protests against Israel on the university campus. Several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered Khalil’s university-owned apartment Saturday night…
Agents from US President Donald Trump’s administration arrested a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in last year’s pro-Palestinian protests at New York’s Columbia University, four fellow students said on Sunday. The student, Mahmoud Khalil at the university’s School of International and Public Affairs, was arrested by US Department of Homeland Security agents…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul orders CUNY to remove Palestinian Studies professor job listing amid controversy. (Getty Images) New York Governor Kathy Hochul has intervened in a controversial job listing for a Palestinian Studies professor at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. On February 28, 2025, Hochul directed CUNY…
When Nancy Cantor became president of Hunter College last fall, she asked faculty, students and staff what they wanted from the school. One answer was more attention to Palestinian studies. Faculty members began working on possible approaches. They came up with a plan for two tenure-track faculty positions that would cross several departments and began…
Hamas released six Israeli hostages from Gaza on Saturday, delivering the last living captives set to be freed in the first phase of a fragile cease-fire. That truce was already jolted this week when the militant group initially returned remains purportedly of an Israeli hostage that testing revealed to be someone else. Early Sunday, Israel…
An Israeli military prosecutor charged five reservist soldiers on Wednesday with abuse of a Palestinian detainee, saying it took place last year at a military base where thousands of Gazans have been held. The indictment accused soldiers at the Sde Teiman base in southern Israel of breaking the detainee’s ribs, puncturing his left lung and…
For years, the Palestinian administration in the occupied West Bank has doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in stipends to the families of Palestinians jailed or killed by Israel — including those involved in violent attacks. The United States and Israel have long condemned the payments and pressured the Palestinian Authority to end them….
For decades, the Educational Bookshop has been a cultural cornerstone of East Jerusalem, its two outlets hosting foreign diplomats, feting prominent authors and providing readers with both sides of the story in the conflict between Israel and Palestinians. This weekend, the Israeli police raided the stores and arrested their two owners after concluding that books…