Pro-Palestine students demand release of Georgetown Univ. researcher
Pro-Palestine students have marched to George Washington University in the United States to protest the detention of Georgetown researcher Badar Khan Suri and Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil.
On Saturday, demonstrators condemned the US administration for its crackdown on Palestinian supporters and activists.
They called for the immediate release of Suri and Khalil. The protest was organized by an advocacy group known as Students for Justice in Palestine.
Sari is a post-doctorate fellow in peace and conflict studies at Georgetown University in Washington. On Thursday, he was taken to a detention facility in Louisiana.
Hassan Ahmad, Suri’s Virginia-based attorney, wrote in a court filing that Suri was targeted because of his wife’s “identity as a Palestinian and her constitutionally protected speech.”
Suri and his wife, Mapheze Saleh, “have long been doxxed and smeared,” the court filing stated.
Mahmoud Khalil holds a green card. He was arrested by immigration officials and accused by the Trump administration of supporting Hamas after organizing protests at Columbia University against the Israeli regime.
The Trump administration has argued he can be deported and that free speech rights do not extend to a non-US citizen.
A wave of demonstrations has been sparked across the US, by Pro-Palestinian activists and students or immigrants who are from Lebanon or Palestine.
On March 16, on return from visiting her family in Lebanon, Brown University professor and Rhode Island Hospital doctor, Rasha Alawieh, who was legally in the US, was detained by the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials at Boston’s Logan airport and deported to Lebanon.
On March 15, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that it “is long overdue” for the US Justice Department to investigate the Columbia University Gaza protests for violations of federal terrorism laws.
Blanche has said the investigation is part of the Trump administration's "mission to end anti-Semitism in this country."
"We are also looking at whether Columbia's handling of earlier incidents violated civil rights laws and included terrorist crimes," he said.
These announcements reveal that the Trump administration has no intention of easing its suppression of pro-Palestinian activists and student and university policies that allegedly allow anti-Semitism to flourish on campuses.
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