UNM Students for Justice in Palestine

LETTER: Liberal university administrators are fascism’s most eager collaborators

On March 8, the Department of Homeland Security forcefully disappeared Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student who was a prominent figure in Columbia’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment and their movement for divestment from Zionist apartheid. DHS came to Khalil’s apartment building, which is owned by Columbia University, and forced themselves into his home. They arrested Khalil and threatened to arrest his wife when she asked who they were. DHS arrested Khalil by claiming his “student visa” had been “revoked.” When Khalil stated that he was not in the U.S. on a student visa but was in fact a permanent legal resident, DHS officers said they had “revoked that too.”