TAKING CONTROL
WATCH: Speaker Mike Johnson Responds to the Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil: The Washington Examiner, YouTube, Mar. 11. 2025
Mahmoud Khalil, Up with Whom We Need Not Put: Hugh Fitzgerald, Israpundit, Mar 11, 2025 — I was amazed when I listened at NPR on March 10, because on every newscast all day long up until 4 p.m. — I tuned into NPR on every hour, just to check — the first or second story was not about the more than 1,000 Alawite civilians murdered in Latakia, or the massacres in Sudan, or the Russian missiles just shot into Ukraine, or the budget battle in Congress, or the election of Mark Carney as prime minister of Canada, or tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada.
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The Legal Case to Deport Mahmoud Khalil of “Columbia University Apartheid Divest” Is Airtight: Elder of Zyon, Mar. 10, 2025
The Anti-Trump Resistance Rushes to Defend Campus Antisemites: Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, Mar. 10, 2025
ICE Arrest of Columbia Student Marks New Era of Campus Politics: Douglas Belkin, Tarini Parti and Alyssa Lukpet, WSJ, Mar. 10, 2025
Columbia pro-Israel Prof Gives Surprise Stance on Mahmoud Khalil Deportation: Erez Linn, Israel Hayom, Mar. 11, 2025
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Who is Mahmoud Khalil, the anti-Israel Columbia University Activist ICE Arrested?: Diana Stancy, Fox News, Mar. 11, 2025 — President Donald Trump announced Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil — and cautioned that other “terrorist sympathizers” would meet a similar fate.
Columbia Refusing to Help Identify ‘Pro-Hamas’ Students, White House Says: Andrew Bernard, JNS, Mar. 11, 2025 — Columbia University is refusing to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security identify students from a list of individuals, who have “engaged in pro-Hamas activity” on campus, the White House said Tuesday.
Columbia Cuts – A Response to Decay Spreading on Campuses: Israel Hayom, Mae. 11, 2025 — Last Friday, the Trump administration announced a $400 million funding cut to Columbia University. The decision was made due to the university’s failure to comply with laws protecting Jewish students.
Judge Halts Deportation of Palestinian Activist Whose Arrest Was Celebrated by Trump: Amanda Friedman, Politico, Mar. 10, 2025 — A federal judge has halted the deportation of a Columbia University graduate student who was detained by immigration authorities for his participation in campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
‘We Just Didn’t Matter,’ Jewish Students Say Of Alleged Antisemitism At California Schools: Izzy Salant, JNS, Mar. 10, 2025 –– The Anti-Defamation League, Jewish on Campus, StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed complaints earlier this month with the U.S. Department of Education alleging that three California schools—Scripps College, Etiwanda Intermediate School and California State Polytechnic, Humboldt—violated the civil rights of Jews and Israelis.