
Category Protests


I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next?
By Mohsen Mahdawi Mr. Mahdawi is a Palestinian human rights advocate and Columbia University student. On April 14, 2025, I was detained during what should have been my citizenship naturalization interview. After more than two weeks of unjust imprisonment, a…

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?
It was never about eliminating antisemitism. It was always about silencing Palestine. That is what the gagging of protesting students, and now the gagging of faculty, was always meant to lead to. While partisans of the Israeli-American mass slaughter in…

My name is Mahmoud Khalil
A Letter from Mahmoud Khalil