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Huwaida Arraf

@huwaida.bsky.social
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Palestinian-American human/civil rights attorney, activist & mom. Co-founder of Intnl Solidarity Movement; Freedom Flotilla organizer; Freedom Rider.

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David Rovics @davidrovics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Huwaida Arraf is on a speaking tour of the west coast! Wednesday evening in Portland, Thursday in Vancouver, BC.
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Alex Berg @itsalexberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
another bright and early one hosting @zerlinamornings.bsky.social on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social from 7-9AM ET today. will be chatting with @skyeperryman.bsky.social, @huwaida.bsky.social, and @imarajones.bsky.social (what a lineup!). gimme a call: 866-997-4748. channel 127 + siriusxm.us/Zerlina.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Follow the #FreedomFlotilla ship Handala—For the Children of Gaza—LIVE. Join us in our last 200 nautical miles to #breakthesiege of Gaza. Help us watch for Israeli pirates! www.youtube.com/live/M2lrxIY...
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HANDALA SHİP LİVE
YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Huwaida Arraf (FFC organiser/international lawyer) & Chris Smalls (founder/former president of Amazon Labor Union) aboard ‘Handala’ + Al Jazeera correspondent/Palestinian Journalist Syndicate member Hani Abuishaiba from Gaza. Live on Insta: 25 July, 1800 EEST www.instagram.com/gazafreedomf... 1/3
Pictures of the participants in the Instagram Live and details of time and date.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Why is Israel threatening to attack a civilian boat carrying baby formula for starving children in Gaza? #Handala @israelmfa.bsky.social @demmaj4israel.bsky.social @timesofisrael.com
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨BIG NEWS! The #NEA votes to #DroptheADL! The ADL has long masqueraded as a civil rights organization while actively working to suppress antiracist movements—from the struggle against apartheid and Black Lives Matter to the fight for Palestinian liberation. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...
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The National Education Association just voted to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League
In a momentous vote, the National Education Association voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the so...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo' - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'
<article data-history-node-id="425464" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/greek-dock-workers-will-refuse-unload-israels-murderous-cargo" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/greek-dock-workers-will-refuse-unload-israels-murderous-cargo" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Dock workers at the port of Piraeus have said that they will refuse to unload the Ever Golden, a container ship carrying military-grade steel to Israel, when it arrives in Greece.</p> <p>“We will not unload a single inch of this murderous cargo,” Enedep, the union of dock workers at Athens’s port city, said&nbsp;on Tuesday.</p> <p>“The dock workers of Piraeus will not be complicit. We will not unload military steel from the Ever Golden -&nbsp;no to Greece’s involvement - freedom for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestine</a>,” the workers said.</p> <p>According to the ship and container tracking site&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9811012%C2%A0" target="_blank">Vessel Finder</a>, the Ever Golden, which is Japanese-owned and sails under the flag of Panama, was sailing off the coast of West Africa on Tuesday morning.</p> <p>It is expected to reach Piraeus on 14 July. Once it arrives there, its cargo is intended to be moved to another container ship, the Folk Dammam, and taken on to Israel.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/greek-dock-workers-will-refuse-unload-ship-carrying-military-grade-steel-israel">Read more:&nbsp;Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'</a></h3> <div alt="The Ever Golden is carrying military-grade steel to Piraeus, from where it will be transshipped and taken to Israel" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="be996fcf-956f-4d2a-bab9-935a795019e9" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/ever%20golden.jpg" width="1400" height="787" alt="The Ever Golden is carrying military-grade steel to Piraeus, from where it will be transshipped and taken to Israel" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
At approx 11:10pm tonight, a drone hovered above the Madleen, while in international waters, 80 nautical miles south of Greece. Thankfully, it passed without incident. Our ground team is investigating. TAKE ACTION 👇🏽 DEMAND Israel refrain from threatening or attacking the #FreedomFlotilla #Gaza
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/05/2025
Essential journalism: @aljazeera.com's The Take interviews human rights lawyer @huwaida.bsky.social about the orchestrated suffering in Gaza, Israel drone-bombing @freedomflotilla.bsky.social in int'l waters, and a call for aid trucks and the world to collectively disobey this murderous blockade
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Why was a Gaza 'Freedom Flotilla' ship attacked? | The Take
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#ShameOnThisWorld
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
As of this moment, the Maltese Coast Guard has not responded to the Freedom Flotilla’s SOS. 30 humanitarian aid volunteers are on board a civilian vessel in distress 17nm off the coast of Malta. If anything happens to them, in addition to Israel, Malta will be responsible. Contact info for PM.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
BREAKING! One of the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social ships has come under attack in international waters. Drones struck the front of the civilian vessel twice, causing a fire and breach in the hull. Drones are still circling the boat endangering the lives of the volunteers on board. #FreedomFlotilla
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In 18 months Israel has killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars I & II, Korean War, Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia & Laos), wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s & 2000s, and post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, COMBINED. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
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News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World | Costs of War
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate ab...
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The Final Solution is underway in Gaza, and from world leaders we get only hollow platitudes. International law is DEAD. Humanity is DYING. We’ve never seen a more open, unapologetic EVIL—mass slaughter, funded, justified & broadcast live for all to see. History will remember. And it will damn us.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The Final Solution is underway…
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Israel is deliberately starving 2 million people in Gaza-exterminating an entire population and not a single gov on Earth is acting to stop it. This is like watching Nazis march people into gas chambers and choosing to look away. History is repeating itself. This time the entire world is complicit.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Prof. Daniel Blatman is an Israeli historian of the Holocaust and head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Too many Christians are celebrating Easter and honoring the resurrection while enabling mass extermination. #HappyEaster #EndGazaGenocide
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Someone anonymously left these sweatshirts in a bag on my porch yesterday. The first line of unsigned note they included is chilling: “The criminalization of protest makes my wife fear having these in our house.” That sentence says so much about where we are right now as a country. #FightFascism
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Rubio is presumably intending to rely on the same provision of the INS and claim that Mahdawi’s presence in the US purportedly harms the government’s foreign policy goal of fighting antisemitism. This is Mahdawi on 60 Minutes last year. m.youtube.com/watch?v=grj3...
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Columbia student on the fight for a free Palestine and the fight against antisemitism
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The gov presented NO evidence that #MahmoudKhalil is guilty of what they accuse him of. The basis for this ruling is an obscure sec of the Immigration Act that allows the Sec of State to determine that an immigrant’s presence in the country could have adverse affect on foreign policy.
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RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 11/04/2025
ohhh hmmm... interesting. More than 100 former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers work for tech giant Meta, including its head of AI policy, who served in the IDF under an Israeli government scheme that allows non-Israelis to volunteer for the Israeli army.
eta’s hiring of over 100 former Israeli spies and soldiers, many with ties to Unit 8200, has sparked major questions about the company’s commitment to free speech. Among those recruited is Shira Anderson, Meta’s AI policy chief, an American lawyer who volunteered for the Israeli army under the infamous Garin Tzabar program. This program allows non-Israelis to join the Israeli military. Anderson served as a non-commissioned officer in the Israeli army and wrote propaganda reports, linking her closely to military efforts in Gaza.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In addition to its war on Black history, LGBTQ, Palestinians, immigrants, etc, Trump admin also has a problem w/sick & disabled Americans, canceling grants to libraries & museums that support visitors w/cognitive and physical disabilities, cancer patients & more. hyperallergic.com/1002518/hund...
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Hundreds of Museum and Library Grants Terminated Overnight
IMLS’s Trump-appointed director Keith Sonderling cut an estimated over 1,000 grants as the administration continues to decimate arts and culture funding.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Mohammad, 5 yrs, is the lone survivor of an Israeli attack that killed his family. Though he knows his parents & siblings were killed, every day he searches through the rubble for his mother... Watch & organize to demand accountability. Sole Survivor Stories Ep 4 youtu.be/kFfVgtvCI9M?si…
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Sole Survivors’ Stories: Stolen present and future - Episode 4
YouTube video by Rabet
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is outrageous! Immigrants are entitled to full First Amendment protections. This is an assault on the very foundations of our Constitution. If we don’t stop this now, citizens will be next. To be clear, this isn’t about combatting antisemitism, it’s about shielding Israel from criticism.
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Necrotic Empire (Marty) @necroticempire.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
What is happening in Gaza defies description, it is the holocaust of our age, and history will not look kindly on those who turned their heads!. If you watch nothing else about Gaza, please watch this & Please share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnHb...
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"GAZA is a slaughterhouse for Humans." Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan.
YouTube video by Frank Barat
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
What kind of world lets this happen? And there are people who celebrate this. Applaud it. Justify it. The depths of this cruelty are unfathomable. It is not just hatred—it is a total collapse of humanity. A black hole where conscience should be. #Gaza #Genocide
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Israeli soldier testimonies reveal war crimes🧵 “…we’re not only killing them – we’re killing them, we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We’re destroying their houses and pissing on their graves.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say
Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
BREAKING: Ten Britons accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza. Team of UK attorneys submit 240-page report to the Met police on behalf of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the Public Interest Law Centre. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...
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Ten Britons accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza
Exclusive: Met to be handed dossier of evidence alleging crimes including killings of civilians and aid workers
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A senior Justice Department attorney is put on leave for NOT lying to a federal judge. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
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Justice Dept. Accuses Top Immigration Lawyer of Failing to Follow Orders (Gift Article)
Erez Reuveni conceded in court that the deportation last month of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had a court order allowing him to stay in the United States, should never have taken place.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 03/04/2025
The Palestinian American lawyer and activist @huwaida.bsky.social explains why the fight for our civil liberties and Gaza go hand in hand.
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Huwaida Arraf on Gaza: ‘We will look back and truly feel ashamed’
The Palestinian American lawyer and activist explains why the fight for our civil liberties and Gaza go hand in hand.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Overwhelmed by the sheer depth of this evil — the unrelenting horror of what Israel is doing in Gaza and the monstrous complicity that enables it.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Same logic: “I’m sorry she’s dead, but if she hadn’t provoked me, I wouldn’t have reacted that way” “It’s terrible that so many students died, but if they hadn’t bullied me, I never would have done this.” “The civilian death in Gaza is truly tragic, but October 7…” #Gaza #Genocide
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A father holds his daughter in his arms for the last time. She’s dead. The US and Israel killed her (and 16K+ other children)
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Palestinians in the West Bank are being lynched daily, either by Israeli settlers, soldiers or both.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
In the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi officials were prosecuted for ordering such reprisals against civilians & using collective punishment as tool of war. Threats & actions against civilians as retaliation or coercion are war crimes and, as part of broader pattern of violations, crimes against humanity.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hossam’s last message to us all. #RIP #hossamshabat
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
There seems to be NO END to the depravity. How much longer will the world watch in silence? The impotence of the international community and its institutions is on full display, emboldening the rogue Zionist state and enabling its crimes against humanity. #Gaza #WarCrimes #AlNasserHospital
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Contrast the cowardly capitulation of Columbia University with the power of the people! “We are not afraid … no dictator, no genocide, no fear and no Trump will stop us!” WATCH www.youtube.com/live/AHnzqVl...
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Free Mahmoud, Free Palestine: Live Event in New York City
YouTube video by BreakThrough News
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Just another Israeli Minister threatening the entire population of Gaza w/ total destruction. These war criminals feel totally immune, but tide is turning. There’s no statute of limitations on genocide and armies of lawyers will not rest until these villains are brought to justice.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Powerful letter from Mahmoud Khalil, dictated from ICE detention center.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Israel did not “break the ceasefire” last night. It NEVER respected the ceasefire or abided by its terms. It NEVER allowed the number of injured to leave Gaza that it committed to; it’s been blocking ALL aid into Gaza for 17 days; and it’s killed 150 Palestinians in Gaza alone during this period.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Israel resumed its sadistic bombing of caged and starved civilians. At least 130 of 400+ killed are children. Doctors report having to amputate children w/o anesthesia. Imagine if ANY other country slaughtered 130 children in one night and prevented aid from reaching them.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In 1936, Columbia expelled students for protesting Naziism. Today, Columbia is expelling students for protesting Zionism. History repeats itself. #FreeSpeech #StudentProtests
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Today is Day 14 of Israel’s total siege on Gaza. For 14 days Israel has prevented any and ALL food, water, medicine, fuel and other humanitarian aid from reaching 2 million displaced, shelterless, starved, and diseased civilians. This is extermination.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/03/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act immediately after we filed our lawsuit. President Trump is not above the law.
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
What is there left to say? This is happening in our lifetime; on our watch. #GazaGenocide
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
BREAKING! via Harvard Undergraduate PSC: Less than a week after the Trump administration abducted Mahmoud Khalil in an attempt to repress the student movement for Palestine, Harvard Law School students overwhelmingly (73%) vote in favor of referendum to divest from Israel. #BDS
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Huwaida Arraf @huwaida.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident, was unlawfully detained by ICE. Neither Trump nor Rubio can single-handedly revoke a green card and certainly not for constitutionally protected activity. Join 600K+ demanding his release! actionnetwork.org/letters/dema... www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ar...
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ICE Arrests Palestinian Activist Who Helped Lead Columbia's Anti-War Protests
Immigration agents detained Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil at his apartment, claiming his green card had been revoked, his attorney said.
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