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US officials confirm arrest of pro-Palestinian campus protest leader
US student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil on the Columbia University campus in New York at an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (Ted Shaffrey/AP)
Immigration officers have arrested a leader of the protests at Columbia University against Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, authorities confirm, after US President Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign pro-Palestinian student demonstrators.
Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent faces of the university’s protest movement that erupted in response to the war, was arrested yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says on X.
The agency says the action was taken “in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting antisemitism, and in coordination with the Department of State.”
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