Now that a judge ruled that Columbia U’s Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, and Momodou Taal who urged taking a cue for Hamas has self-deported, Democrats and the media are swarming to defend another one of these foreign students being shoved to the exit. Mohsen Mahdawi, also of Columbia U, presumably anticipating his own ‘Shalom’ message, went off to an immigration officie in Vermont in the hopes of getting ‘naturalized’, instead he was asked to leave America. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen Peter Welch along with Rep. Becca Balint, claimed...

The detention of Mohsen Mahdawi comes several weeks after the detention of fellow Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was an associate of Mahdawi. Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University, is detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vt., on April 14, 2025. Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University, is detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester,...

Approximately 40 University of Pennsylvania students and faculty gathered last Friday to participate in an “interfaith vigil” for the “martyrs” of Israel’s alleged “genocide” of the Palestinians.

Mahdawi is a legal U.S. resident — a green card holder — who has lived in the country for a decade and was seeking citizenship. The Intercept reported that Mahdawi now faces potential deportation to the West Bank, which the Columbia student told the outlet was “kind of a death sentence ... because my people are being killed unjustly in an indiscriminate way.” Last month, Mahdawi’s was one of three names that “we have submitted to the Trump administration” for potential targeting, Betar told HuffPost in an email at the...

Harvard University announced Monday it will not comply with orders from President Donald Trump to cut DEI programs and expel students in involved in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. In early April, Trump provided his list of demands to the university. That list included cutting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, banning masks at protests, and expelling students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Trump also called for the university to recognize pro-Palestinian student groups and commit to “full cooperation” with the Department of Homeland Security.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Monday unveiled a financial aid package of up to 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) to support the beleaguered Palestinian Authority and fund projects in the West Bank, Jerusalem and war-ravaged Gaza. The offer came as Israel expanded its offensive across Gaza over the weekend. More than a third of the money, to be provided over two years, will come as direct budget support to the Palestinian Authority and it’s aimed at improving financial sustainability, democratic governance and services to help the private sector...