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Anna Betts

‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activist

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Mahmoud Khalill speaks to the press at Columbia University in New York on 1 June 2024. Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters

Free speech organizations and advocates are expressing outrage after a prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protests last year, was arrested and detained over the weekend.

Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident with a green card, was taken into custody by federal immigration authorities on Saturday night, who reportedly said that they were acting on a state department order to revoke his green card.

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