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#DefendAcademicFreedom

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

In #Graduation Speech, #NYU Student Condemns U.S.-backed #Israeli War in Gaza

University Withholds Student’s Diploma, in Latest Flashpoint over Free Speech on U.S. Campuses

from #WorldOutlook
May 16, 2025

[contains transcript of his speech]

“We commend Logan for using this opportunity to demand an end to the bloodshed in #Gaza,” said Afaf Nasher, executive director of CAIR-NY, a Muslim civil rights organization. “We demand that NYU formally release Logan’s diploma, which he rightfully earned, and suspend any disciplinary proceedings against him.””

world-outlook.com/2025/05/16/i

#StopGazaGenocide
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

World-Outlook · In Graduation Speech, NYU Student Condemns U.S.-backed Israeli War in GazaOn May 14, Logan Rozos, a student at New York University (NYU), gave a brief but powerful speech during the graduation ceremony of Gallatin, a liberal arts school within NYU. In his remarks (transcribed by World-Outlook from the video of Rozos’ speech, and published in this post), the student condemned the U.S.-backed Israeli war on the Palestinian people in Gaza. NYU immediately announced it is withholding the student’s diploma as it pursues disciplinary actions against him, in the latest flashpoint between free speech principles and punishment for pro-Palestinian advocacy on U.S. college campuses.
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

#Indian academic held over pro-#Palestinian views released from #ICE jail

Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in March

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Marina Dunbar and agency
Wed 14 May 2025 17.47 EDT

"US district judge Patricia Giles ... said that the ruling was effective immediately with no conditions and no bond. She added that #KhanSuri’s release was “in the public interest to disrupt the chilling effect on protected speech” during the hearing."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#NoDeportationForBadarKhanSuri
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

The Guardian · Indian academic held over pro-Palestinian views released from Ice jailBy Marina Dunbar
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

#Tufts student returns to #Massachusetts after release from immigration custody

from #Reuters
By Nate Raymond
May 10, 202510:12 PM EDT

[article contains 5 nice photos :-) ]

** Summary**
* #Öztürk returns home after release from immigration detention center
* Judge in #Vermont grants bail, citing substantial claims her rights were violated
* Ozturk urges public to remember detained women in Louisiana

reuters.com/world/us/tufts-stu

#EndBlockadeOfGaza
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw #RümeysaÖztürk
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

Turkish #TuftsUniversity student released from Louisiana immigration detention center [#RümeysaÖztürk]

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By KATHY McCORMACK
Updated 8:33 PM EDT, May 9, 2025

'“Despite an 11th hour attempt to delay her freedom by trying to force her to wear an ankle monitor, Rumeysa is now free and is excited to return home, free of monitoring or restriction,” attorney Mahsa Khanbabai said.'

apnews.com/article/ozturk-tuft

#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

This photo provided by the Ozturk legal team shows Rumeysa Ozturk, center, with Nora Ahmed of ACLU Louisiana and Mahsa Khanbabai of Khanbabai Law on Friday, May 9, 2025, in Basile, La., shortly after her release from an immigration detention center. (Ozturk legal team via AP)
AP News · Turkish Tufts University student released from Louisiana immigration detention centerBy Kathy Mccormack
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, released from Louisiana jail

PhD student arrested in March for political speech released on Friday after federal judge’s ruling

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Maya Yang and Noa Yachot in New York and agencies
Fri 9 May 2025 19.32 EDT

"#RümeysaÖztürk, the #Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech, has been released from the Louisiana detention center where she was being held in what she and her lawyers had argued was a breach of her constitutional rights."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationOfRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

The Guardian · Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, released from Louisiana jailBy Maya Yang
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

Tufts student released from US immigration custody after judge's order

from #Reuters
By Nate Raymond
May 9, 20258:09 PM EDT

***Summary***
* #RumeysaOzturk ordered released immediately from Louisiana detention center
* Ozturk was detained after pro-#Palestinian campus advocacy
* Judge said her detention chills free speech of non-citizens

reuters.com/world/us/tufts-stu

#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

Court orders detained #Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to #Vermont

Lawyers say the Turkish national, who has been held in a Louisiana Ice center for two weeks, was illegally detained

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Sam Levine and agencies
Wed 7 May 2025 12.35 EDT

"A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a #Turkish #TuftsUniversity student from a #Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated.

A judicial panel ... ruled in the case of #RümeysaÖztürk after lawyers representing her and the US justice department presented arguments at a hearing on Tuesday."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

The Guardian · Court orders detained Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to VermontBy Sam Levine
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

#Michigan AG Drops Charges Against Pro-Palestinian Campus Protesters

"Our First Amendment rights should never be criminalized. Speaking up against genocide should be lifted up, not slammed with felony charges. #Palestinians deserve safety and dignity," said Rep. #RashidaTlaib.

from #CommonDreams
Jessica Corbett
May 05, 2025

Jessica Corbett
May 05, 2025

"Advocates for student protesters and other critics of the U.S.-backed #Israeli assault on the #Gaza Strip celebrated on Monday after Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel dropped all charges against seven people arrested last year at the #UniversityOfMichigan amid allegations of bias that the #Democrat rejected. "

commondreams.org/news/universi

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

#NYPD shared a Palestinian protester’s info with #ICE. Now it’s evidence in her deportation case

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 8:31 PM EDT, May 2, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — #NewYorkCity’s police department provided federal immigration authorities with an internal record about a #Palestinian woman who they arrested at a protest, which the #Trump administration is now using as evidence in its bid to deport her, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.

apnews.com/article/nypd-ice-le

#ReleaseLeqaaKordia
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Gaza #Palestine
#news #press

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather near an area where people were being taken into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a campus encampment and a campus building, taken over by protesters earlier in the day, were cleared by New York City police. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
AP News · NYPD shared a Palestinian protester's info with ICE. Now it's evidence in her deportation caseBy Jake Offenhartz
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

#Democratic lawmakers call for release of #Tufts student from #ICE detention

Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley exhort authorities to free Rümeysa Öztürk, calling her treatment ‘repression’

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Anna Betts
Fri 25 Apr 2025 13.02 EDT

A group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald #Trump administration to immediately release the #TuftsUniversity graduate student #RümeysaÖztürk, praised her “unwavering spirit” and warned that the White House is engaging in “repression”.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

The Guardian · Democratic lawmakers call for release of Tufts student from Ice detentionBy Anna Betts
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

Michigan's #Democratic AG Under Fire After Armed Agents Raid Homes of Palestine Defenders

"We are totally convinced that, but for their viewpoints, these students would not have been targeted," said one attorney.

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Apr 23, 2025

" Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed their way into the #Michigan homes of pro-#Palestine student organizers on Wednesday in what the state attorney general's office said was a vandalism probe—but critics called an attack on dissent against #Israel's genocidal assault on #Gaza. "

commondreams.org/news/michigan

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#StopGazaGenocide
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #DanaNessel #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Common Dreams · Michigan's Democratic AG Under Fire After Armed Agents Raid Homes of Palestine Defenders | Common Dreams"We are totally convinced that, but for their viewpoints, these students would not have been targeted," said one attorney.
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails

Delegation visits jails where #MahmoudKhalil and #RümeysaÖztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ #Trump

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Dani Anguiano
Tue 22 Apr 2025 20.31 EDT

"#Öztürk, a #TuftsUniversity PhD student, and #Khalil, a graduate of #Columbia, have been detained for more than a month since US immigration authorities took them into custody. Neither have been accused of criminal conduct and are being held in violation of their constitutional rights, members of the delegation said."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press

The Guardian · ‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jailsBy Dani Anguiano
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

'Do You Realize That This Is Kafkaesque?':
#Trump's Attacks on Foreign Students Stun Judges

"Disenrolling students was already a blatant capitulation, and now it is a wholly inexcusable one," said one attorney.

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Apr 22, 2025

commondreams.org/news/trump-st

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#Release Rümeysa Öztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press

Common Dreams · 'Do You Realize That This Is Kafkaesque?': Trump's Attacks on Foreign Students Stun Judges | Common Dreams"Disenrolling students was already a blatant capitulation, and now it is a wholly inexcusable one," said one attorney.
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

Detained #Turkish student must be transferred from #Louisiana for hearing, judge rules

#RümeysaÖztürk was taken by #immigration officials over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for op-ed

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
via #TheGuardian
Fri 18 Apr 2025 18.40 EDT

"A federal judge on Friday ordered that a #Turkish #TuftsUniversity student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana be brought to #Vermont by 1 May for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

#Release Rümeysa Öztürk
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

The Guardian · Detained Turkish student must be transferred from Louisiana for hearing, judge rulesBy Guardian staff reporter
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

"Come for one, face us all."

from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]

"Desperate to crush popular and growing opposition to #Israel’s genocide, the #Trump regime is shredding our First Amendment rights.

But we’re not backing down. Shortly after Mohsen was arrested, over a thousand Jews and allies gathered for an emergency Passover seder outside ICE headquarters in NYC to demand his and other student activists’ release.

Our message is clear: “Come for one, face us all.”"

jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/0

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#repression
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press
@palestine @israel

JVP · "Come for one, face us all." - JVPDesperate to crush popular and growing opposition to Israel’s genocide, the Trump regime is shredding our First Amendment rights.
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

After I read about Harvard standing up to the Bully-in-Chief's outrageous demands, and then him taking back 2.2B dollars of federal grants from them, I thought of a (mostly) symbolic gesture of solidarity.

Why not donate $10 to #Harvard to support their act of defiance? Harvard is a wealthy school and not on my normal list of causes or institutions to donate to. And there are many other organizations that need funds to defend social justice. But in this moment it might have a positive impact that makes it worthwhile.

So I searched and found Harvard's donation website and sent them $10. It's a long way from $2.2B, but that's really not the point, and if many people do it, it could send a message that we aren't going to stand by and let a wannabe dictator take over education.

alumni.harvard.edu/giving

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#NoKings
#SendTenBucksToHarvard
#HarvardUniversity

Screenshot of a message from Harvard University saying "Thank you, Peter" for a $10 contribution.
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

Harvard University punished with $2b funding freeze for defying Trump

Freeze followed a letter sent on Monday to the Trump administration saying it rejects the government’s demands

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 15 April 2025 21:30 BST

"The freeze, representing 35.9 percent of #Harvard's $6.4bn operating expenses, immediately followed a letter on Monday from #HarvardUniversity lawyers to the #Trump administration, stating that it rejected the government’s demands.

The letter, issued by Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and LLP King & Spalding LLP, said that “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”"

middleeasteye.net/news/harvard

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#FreeMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine

Middle East EyeHarvard University punished with $2b funding freeze for defying TrumpFreeze followed a letter sent on Monday to the Trump administration saying it rejects the government’s demands
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': #ICE Arrests Palestinian #Columbia Protest Leader

"He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech," said Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyer.

from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Apr 14, 2025

"A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group #Betar named #ColumbiaUniversity student #MohsenMahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of #Palestinian rights defenders, #Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen. "

commondreams.org/news/mohsen-m

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#FreeMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Common Dreams · 'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': ICE Arrests Palestinian Columbia Protest Leader | Common DreamsColumbia student Mohsen Mahdawi, targeted by far-right group Betar, arrested at immigration office. Leaders of Palestinian rights protests facing deportation. Mahdawi detained for speaking out. Will justice prevail for him and others like him? #FreeMahdawi
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