Posted on 03/13/2025 11:40:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Demonstrators from the group, Jewish Voice for Peace, protest inside Trump Tower in support of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, Thursday, March 13, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
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(Headline USA) Demonstrators from a Jewish group filled the lobby of Trump Tower on Thursday to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at Columbia University.
The Jewish Voice for Peace protesters, who carried banners and wore red shirts reading “Jews say stop arming Israel,” chanted “Bring Mahmoud home now!”
After warning the protesters to leave the Fifth Avenue building, officers arrested 98 of them on various charges including trespassing, obstruction and resisting arrest, a police official said at a news briefing.
It’s not clear how so many protestors were allowed inside Trump Tower in the first place. The Trump administration has publicly commented on the matter as of the publication of this article.
Khalil, a 30-year-old permanent U.S. resident who is married to an American citizen and who hasn’t been charged with breaking any laws, was arrested outside his New York City apartment on Saturday and faces deportation. He’s being held at an immigration detention center in Louisiana.
President Donald Trump has said Khalil’s arrest was the first “of many to come” and vowed on social media to deport students who he said engage in “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” The White House didn’t immediately respond to a message seeking comment about the Trump Tower demonstration.
Among those who took part in Thursday’s protest was actor Debra Winger, who has discussed her Jewish faith and upbringing over the years.
“I’m just standing up for my rights, and I’m standing up for Mahmoud Khalil, who has been abducted illegally and taken to an undisclosed location,” she told The Associated Press. “Does that sound like America to you?”
Protester Sophie Edelhart, who studies Yiddish at a school in Canada, said she took part in the demonstration because she didn’t want to “cede ground” to Trump and “fascism.” She said the building, with its golden escalator that Trump rode before announcing his 2016 presidential run, was a symbolic target.
Trump Tower serves as headquarters for the Trump Organization and is where the president stays when he is in New York. The skyscraper often attracts demonstrations, both against and in support of its namesake, though protests inside are less common. The building’s main entrance opens to a multi-story atrium that is open to the public and connects visitors to stores and eateries such as the Trump Grill.
Kaz Daughtry, the deputy mayor for public safety and a former longtime New York Police Department official, said no one was injured in Thursday’s protest. But he said the city would assess the situation and review its procedures “so this cannot happen again.”
Khalil’s supporters say Khalil’s arrest is an attack on free speech and have staged protests elsewhere in the city and around the country. Hundreds demonstrated Wednesday outside a Manhattan courthouse during a brief hearing on his case.
Columbia was a focal point of the pro-Palestinian protest movement that swept across U.S. college campuses last year and led to more than 2,000 arrests.
On Thursday, Khalil and seven students identified by pseudonyms filed a lawsuit seeking to block a Congressional committee from obtaining Columbia and Barnard College disciplinary records for students involved in campus protests.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan against the schools, the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce and its chairman, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., seeks a permanent injunction barring Congress from forcing the schools to provide the records and the universities from complying with it.
The committee sent a letter last month demanding that Columbia and Barnard provide the records or risk billions of dollars in federal funding. The plaintiffs contend that the committee is abusing its power in an attempt “to chill and suppress speech and association based on the viewpoint expressed” and that its investigation “threatens to significantly infringe on First Amendment rights.”
Khalil, whose wife is pregnant with their first child, finished his requirements for a Columbia master’s degree in December. Born in Syria, he is a grandson of Palestinians who were forced to leave their homeland, his lawyers said in a legal filing.
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press
Jewish self loathers are protesting.
I’ll say it again (and again):
Liberal Jewish Americans will be the death of Israel.
“Free the ones that want to gas us!”
Hopefully they run out of USAID money to hire rent-a-mobs soon.
$40/hour?
The left is a suicide cult. The Jewish left doubly so.
I believe Netanyahu said nearly the same thing.
He was educated in the US (MIT)..........
Real Jews? No way! Atheist “Jews”? Possibly.
Will they issue 1099’s?........................
Ah....
He has promoted terrorist organizations and has advocated attacking Jewish people domestically because of ancestry and religion. We, as a free people, can’t tolerate that. Doesn’t matter if I support Israel, don’t support Israel, we can’t allow people who support terrorism to have green cards. Finally, the guy has a security clearance from Great Britain. So why does he even need to be in the US? Makes no sense for him to be here.
I am pretty sure they are not Jewish.
Many Jewish people are very disappointing. Though I suspect many of them are JINOs in reality.
They’re about as Jewish as George Soros.
“Jewish Voice for Peace”
Zyklon Jews.
The useful idiots are blind to what would become of them under sharia law.
Clayton Bigsby, the World’s Only Black White Supremacist - Chappelle’s Show
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BLNDqxrUUwQ
Jewish pro-Hamas protestors.... Part of the crack suicide squad of the Judean People’s Front.
SEND THEM TO GAZA!
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