TARGETED Pro Palestine Cornell Student SELF-DEPORTS, Columbia Students Are KIDNAPPED & Expelled!

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Columbia students discuss how their university betrayed Mahmoud Khalil who was kidnapped by ICE, & betrayed academic freedom by capitulating to the Trump Administration. Then Cornell University Ph.D student Momodou Taal, who is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom & the Gambia, talks about attempting to sue Trump & his decision to leave the United States. Momodou is joined by his lawyer Eric Lee to talk about the crackdown on pro Palestinian speech. See the full conversation here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/maryam-alwan-lee-125730587 Grant Miner is the president of the Student Workers of Columbia-UAW 2710 union & was expelled from Columbia University for participating in the protest movement against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Maryam Alwan is a Palestinian senior at Columbia University who played a key role in the student movement for divestment during the 2023-2024 academic year. Her activism gained international attention when she was among 108 students arrested at the April 2024 encampment, sparking pro-Palestinian mobilization at college campuses across the globe. She has published numerous op-eds & given many interviews advocating for Palestinian rights & liberation. Maryam Iqbal is a student organizer at Columbia who was suspended through the last fall semester for her involvement in the encampments. She's majoring in MESAAS, the dep't at Columbia which is currently facing the brunt of attacks by the Trump Admin. Momodou Taal is a PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell University, specializing in conceptualizations of sovereignty with a particular focus on West Africa. Momodou Taal is the host of the Malcolm effect podcast, a show dedicated to political education. Eric Lee is an immigration lawyer & federal litigator who served as lead counsel in Dep't of State v. Muñoz & argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2024. He's represented numerous students & visa holders facing discipline for pro-Palestinian & socialist speech. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/

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0:45.5	We have a jam-packed show.
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0:48.5	We got two segments, and they're both going to be great.
0:51.3	They're both about this disgusting crackdown on free speech,
0:55.3	on academic freedom, on activism. And we have two panels. One is from basically Columbia students.
1:03.7	And then the second panel will be with Mama Dutal, who was a PhD student at Cornell,
1:09.9	who was trying to sue the Trump administration, but because of
1:14.9	the repression that we're seeing and the kind of lawlessness that we're seeing, he decided,
1:20.3	unfortunately, but understandably, to leave the United States. So we're going to be talking to him
1:24.5	during the second half, as well as his lawyer, Eric Lee.
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