https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/14\/mahdawi-arrested-columbia-palestine-00290474<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Authorities have detained a co-founder of Columbia University\u2019s Palestinian Student Union as he was completing the final steps toward gaining U.S. citizenship in what appears to be part of a widening crackdown on college activists by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
Mohsen Mahdawi, who had permanent U.S. residency, was taken into custody Monday in Vermont when he went to a federal office building for a naturalization appointment, according to a legal filing his attorney submitted to block his transfer to a detention facility out of state.”<\/p>\n
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“\u201cAs a result of his speech he\u2019s being detained, I mean it\u2019s outrageous,\u201d said Luna Droubi, an attorney for Mahdawi, who was raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank but has lived in the U.S. for a decade.”<\/p>\n
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“Mahdawi appeared on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d in 2023 and was active in the Palestinian student protest movement at Columbia but says he had no role in organizing the largest and most raucous of the demonstrations in the following spring, according to his lawyer\u2019s court filing.<\/p>\n
He had finished his studies at Columbia and was planning to graduate in May and then return to the campus in the fall for a master\u2019s degree. Mahdawi is a Buddhist and \u201cbelieves in non-violence and empathy as a central tenet of his religion,\u201d the court filing said.” <\/p>\n
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