The arrest of the Student Activist of the University of Columbia is a threat to upgrading and speaking freely in the United States, says Professor Michael Tadeos.

“It is a very dark day in the history of the republic, when someone can be imprisoned for their constitutional rights,” said Colombia Mathematical Professor As it happens Host Nil Koksal.

“And it seems that it is a simple case.”

Thaddeus is one of the members of several Faculties of New York School speaking on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, that was arrested by the agents of immigration and customs taxes (ice) Protests against Israel's military campaign in Gaza are protesting against Israel's military propaganda.

The permanent US resident, the permanent population of the United States, was arrested before its university apartment in front of her pregnant women and sent a pregnant woman in Louisiana.

The arrest was initiated by the Executive Commission, which was signed by US President Donald Trump, which could fight what he described as anti-Semitism exported and exported student protesters, which he would lick “Hamas supporters.”

What happened?

Khalil, who has Palestinian origin, has come to the US student visa in 2022 and has become a permanent residence last year.

According to the courts, he completed the title of Master of Public Administration in December 2024 and ended in May.

He was a famous member and negotiator against the protest of Colombia's protest against the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

Trump, which is supposed to be on social media, without evidence that Khalil supported the Palestinian belligerent group Hamas, something activist's lawyers strongly rejected.

When Khalil was arrested for the first time, the officers threatened to recall the student visa and deported him, and said to his lawyers. When he corrected them, he actually had a green card, they say they would ratify it instead.

On Monday, the federal judge has temporarily blocked Khalil's deportation, while his lawyers dispute the constitutionality of his arrest.

During the first court hearing of New York on Wednesday, US Regional Journal Jesse Furman ruled that the activist should be allowed private phone calls to his lawyers.

One of the Khalil's lawyers, Ramsey Kasem, said that his client had allowed only one call from his legal team in Louisian in Louisiana, which is located on the line of the government.

Government's lawyer Brandon Waterman said he was not aware of the problem of access to his lawyers of Khalil, but he would affect it.

The scene outside the courtroom was tense, as hundreds of protesters gathered, taking signs by reading “Getting Mahmoud Khalil” and chanting by recycling. “

Funding reduces Colombia

Meanwhile, returning to the university, the representatives of the Columbia branch of the Association of University Professors met with City Chairman of the University Katrina Armstrong.

Thaddeus – Who is the Vice President of Columbia branch, says he and his colleagues put pressure on Armstrong, useless?

“The university administration has significantly silenced this arrest,” he said.

The reason, he doubts, has to do with money. The victory administration has already stopped the $ 400 million US dollar federal grants and Colombia agreements on the accusations of anti-Palestinian protests on the university.

Thaddeus called on cuts and arrested the “bilateral attack” by the Trump administration against Colombia.

“The federal government has many leverage on us,” Tadeos said.

However, he called on the administration, the members of the faculty and talk to the students.

“These levers must be exercised on us, no matter what we do, or no matter what we say,” he said. “Thus, we can also know, stand up and have the courage of our beliefs.”

Columbia University did not respond to multiple CBC requests for comment.

Other professors and their representatives also spoke against Khalil's arrest and financing reductions, which say what they say to freedom of speech and science.

AAUP's Columbia branch President Rinild Martin said that the financing reductions have nothing to do with anti-Semitism, and everything has nothing to do with the “crushing dispute and privatizing by the government”. “

AAUP called on Khalil's immediate release.

The British Professor Marian, the child of the Holocaust survivors in Romania, says that Khalil's arrest brought back the nightmares of the majority of the child.

“An illegal detention of a student and the threat of the green card, which is a green card, made everyone here.” Hirsch said at a press conference on MondayA number

“Mahmoud is my rock,” said the woman

Mahmud's wife, a US citizen who is pregnant for eight months, has issued a statement through her husband's lawyers. They did not reveal his name.

“Mahmud is my rock, he is my house, and he is my happy place,” the statement said.

“For everyone who reads it, I urge you to see my husband and future Father who love my eyes.