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Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks

Posted on | National Public Radio (NPR)

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.

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Jewish Scholars Defy Flawed Antisemitism Definition

Posted on | Academics For Peace

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.

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Long overdue release of Ahmad Manasra marks the start of a long and difficult path to recovery

Posted on | Amnesty International

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.