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Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks
In the first media interview with any of the Trump administration’s student detainees – all at risk of deportation — Mahdawi spoke to Leila Fadel in the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, Vt., where he’s awaiting a court hearing Wednesday in a petition that argues government officials violated his First Amendment right to free speech and his right to due process.
Editor’s note: On Wednesday, April 30, a federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi’s release while his case proceeds.
After Humanitarianism
We are honored to have Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj for the next installment of the Bisan Lecture Series, on Wednesday May 14th, at 8PM Palestine time (6 PM GMT and UK time, 1 PM EDT).
Please notice the unusual time of the lecture.
Register here to get the Zoom link!
A protective force must be deployed to occupied Palestine
States have the duty to stop genocide. Sending a peacekeeping force to Gaza and the West Bank would fulfil this obligation.
Jewish Scholars Defy Flawed Antisemitism Definition
The weaponization of antisemitism accusations to silence criticism of Israel has become a global threat to academic freedom, free speech, and the fight for justice in Palestine. On April 17, 2025, over 40 Jewish scholars, Holocaust and genocide experts, and historians of antisemitism across the United States took a bold stand: they publicly violated the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of antisemitism, exposing its dangerous role in suppressing dissent.
Israeli Incitement to Genocide in Gaza Goes Mainstream
Genocide talk has spread into all TV studios as legitimate talk. From here on, one should say: thou shalt murder. All that remains is to debate who should be murdered and who should be spared
Long overdue release of Ahmad Manasra marks the start of a long and difficult path to recovery
Ahmad Manasra’s release comes at a time when thousands of Palestinian prisoners and detainees face unprecedented levels of torture and other ill-treatment and denial of their most basic rights, such as food and healthcare. Israeli authorities repeatedly claimed that Manasra’s prolonged and cruel solitary confinement was aimed at protecting him, but in fact it subjected him to immense suffering.
What’s Legally Allowed In War
How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential conflict with a foreign power like China.
Bombing plants, severing pipelines: Israel pushes Gaza water crisis to the brink
Since March, the army’s intensified targeting of water infrastructure has left Gazans no choice but to drink seawater and ration contaminated supplies.
WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza as border crossings remain closed
GAZA, Palestine – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza.