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Following the detention of Palestinian student-activist Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University on Saturday, US President Donald Trump declared it was "the first of many to come."
Trump’s statement signaled a hardline stance against pro-Palestinian individuals and entities on various US campuses engaged in advocacy work that his administration has effectively criminalized.
He described Khalil as a “radical foreign pro-Hamas student” and made it clear that his administration would show zero tolerance for any pro-Palestinian advocacy work in American universities.
“We know there are more students at Columbia and other universities across the country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” the newly-elected Republican president noted in the statement posted on Social Truth.
His remarks sparked backlash from legal experts and activists, who questioned how a sitting president could publicly accuse an American citizen and green card holder of a crime without due process.
Activists and commentators also noted that Trump’s language – labeling pro-Palestinian advocacy as “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American” – suggests an impending crackdown that could conflate support for Palestinian rights with extremism...
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