Ramzy Baroud (2025-04-28). Deporting Dissent: The Dangerous Precedent Set by the Persecution of Pro-Palestine Activists. counterpunch.org "Rights are granted to those who align with power," Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, eloquently wrote from his cell. This poignant statement came soon after a judge ruled that the government had met the legal threshold to deport the young activist on the nebulous ground of "foreign policy". "For the poor, for people

Ramzy Baroud (2025-04-28). Fascists eventually come for everyone, they don't stop with rights activists. peoplesworld.org "Rights are granted to those who align with power," Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, eloquently wrote from his cell. This poignant statement came soon after a judge ruled that the government had met the legal threshold to deport the young activist on the nebulous ground of "foreign policy." "For the poor, for people of color, …

Binoy Kampmark (2025-04-28). Yale, Ben-Gvir and Banning Palestinian Groups. counterpunch.org Universities are in a bind. As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very least could, be put into practice. How unfortunate for rich ideas to linger in cold storage or exist as the mummified status of esoterica. But universities in the United States have taken fright at pro-Palestinian protests since October