“We will find these terrorism sympathizers, arrest and deport them from our country-so that they never return,” said the US President. The Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested on Sunday at Columbia University in New York by employees of the immigration and border protection authority. According to a student union, Khalil, who has already completed his studies, had a permanent residence permit, a so -called “Green Card” at the time of his arrest. The U.S. Ministry of Internal Safety said that the arrest was banned in accordance with Trump’s decrees to ban anti-Semitism.
The US government had announced the reduction in state support for Columbia University on Friday due to the alleged failure in the protection of Jewish students. Khalil was one of the most famous faces of last year’s protests against the war in the Gaza Strip at the university.
