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“Never Again for Anyone”: 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower

Over 300 protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace demanded the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.

They held banners reading “opposing fascism is a Jewish tradition.”

“I refuse to allow this administration to use our names as Jews to carry out a fascist agenda." It has far-right white supremacists that do the Nazi salute, & Trump is fine with that.

democracynow.org/2025/3/14/jvp

#USPol #JewishVoiceforPeace #Autocracy #Khalil .

Email campaign Jewish Voice for Peace

"Email Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil"

"These are the actions of a fascist government, & we must fiercely resist & speak out, & generate overwhelming public outrage & pressure to ensure Mahmoud's release...

"and to demand that elected officials & universities start protecting students from the reach of the Trump regime."

jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resour

#MahmoudKhalil #JewishVoiceforPeace #USPol #Autocracy #StudentProtests .

JVPEmail Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil. - JVPA permanent resident of the United States could face imminent deportation because he stood up for Palestinian rights. We must act now.

Report: 98 anti-genocide demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace were arrested after taking over Trump's hotel in New York on Thursday.

Hundreds were protesting against the arrest & detention of activist Mahmoud Khalil without a warrant.

france24.com/en/americas/20250

#MahmoudKhalil #Trump #JewishVoiceforPeace #USPol #Autocracy #Racism .

FRANCE 24 · Pro-Palestinian protesters take over Trump Tower in New YorkBy FRANCE 24

#Jewish protesters flood #TrumpTower's lobby to demand the #ColumbiaUniversity #activist's release

by Cedar Attanasio, AP, 3/13/2025

New York — "Demonstrators from a Jewish group filled the lobby of #TrumpTower on Thursday to denounce the immigration arrest of #MahmoudKhalil, a #ProPalestinian activist who helped lead protests against #Israel at Columbia University.

"The demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace wore red shirts reading 'Jews say stop arming Israel' and held up banners as they chanted 'Bring Mahmoud home now!' on the lower level of the Fifth Avenue building's public atrium.

"After warning the protesters to leave, police said they arrested 98 people who stayed on various charges, including trespassing, obstruction and resisting arrest.

"Khalil, a 30-year-old permanent U.S. resident who is married to an American citizen and who hasn't been charged with breaking any laws, was arrested outside his New York City apartment Saturday and faces deportation. He's being held at an immigration detention center in Louisiana."

detroitnews.com/story/news/nat
#JewishVoiceForPeace #FreeMahmoud #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #ResistFascism #ResistRacism #BringMahmoudHomeNow #StopArmingIsrael #NotInOurName #VeteransAgainsFascism

Associated Press · Jewish protesters flood Trump Tower's lobby to demand the Columbia University activist's releaseThe Jewish Voice for Peace protesters wore red shirts reading “Jews say stop arming Israel” at Thursday's protest and chanted “Bring Mahmoud home now!”

“As Jews, we’re here today mere hours before the holiday of Purim begins – a holiday where we honor Esther who used her voice to speak out and demand that the king not commit genocide,” the woman said in the video. “Today we are using her same courage to speak out.”

#protest #genocide #gaza #palestine #resistance #GoodTrouble #JewishVoiceForPeace

cnn.com/2025/03/13/us/mahmoud-

CNN · Protesters arrested after storming Trump Tower to demand release of Mahmoud KhalilBy Chelsea Bailey

#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding

Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.

by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025

"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.

"The crackdown was just getting started.

Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.

"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.

"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.

"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.

"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'

"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.

"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/03/08/co

Archived version:
archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech

The Intercept · Columbia Bent Over Backward to Appease Right-Wing, Pro-Israel Attacks — And Trump Still Cut Federal FundingBy Natasha Lennard

#Israel wants to steal even more of #Palestine

from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]

Other items:
Tell Congress: End U.S. weapons to Israel.
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Study & Action for Palestine 2025:
Fighting fascism at home & abroad
An Online Course & Learning Community held and hosted by Comrades Education
CO-SPONSORS: US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace, Adalah Justice Project, Highlander Center, SURJ, Catalyst Project & Rabbis for Ceasefire [see website comradesDOTeducation]

jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/0

#PermanentCeasfireNow
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#AllEyesOnWestBank
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#Gaza #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news @palestine @israel

JVP ·  Israel wants to steal even more of Palestine. - JVPThe weapons and tactics used to target Palestinians abroad inevitably find their way back to the country supplying them (the U.S).

The #FarRight Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport

#BetarUS said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”

"This conflation of speech critical to #Israel with #antisemitism or support of Hamas will do little to protect Jews in the United States from hate, said #JonahRubin, with #JewishVoiceForPeace, a progressive #JewishAmerican group that advocates for #Palestinian #HumanRights."

Jonah Valdez
February 6 2025

"The premise behind Trump’s more recent order is rooted in #ProjectEsther: a treatise by the authors of #Project2025. The document was billed as 'a blueprint to counter antisemitism' and offered strategies to target and silence critics of Israel, including deportation. A fact sheet about the executive order related by the Trump administration mirrored language from Project Esther and laid bare the order’s intent to 'cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses,' vowing to deport 'all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests.'

"Such ideas are increasingly gaining purchase in conservative discourse. Pledges to deport supporters of Palestinian rights were a key part of the Republican Party’s platform. A congressional bill introduced last May called for similar measures.

"#Academia is a key focus of Project Esther and Trump’s executive orders. While the most recent order instructs all agencies within the executive branch to take part in the crackdown, it encourages #surveillance in specific areas, such as #universities and even K-12 schools, where administrators are being told to monitor and report #InternationalStudents for possible deportation.

"On Monday, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched investigations into five schools — #ColumbiaUniversity; #UCLABerkley; #NorthwesternUniversity; #UniversityOfMinnesota, Twin Cities; and #PortlandStateUniversity — for #antisemitism, the first use of the executive order.

"'Americans and college students that visit the United States should be able to protest the #Israeli government’s human rights violations in the same way that the United United Nations, the International Criminal Court [#ICC], #AmnestyInternational, #HumanRightsWatch, and other respected institutions have for the past several years, without fear of retaliation,' said Robert McCaw, a leader with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who heads the government affairs department. He decried the order’s fact sheet of peddling anti-Muslim terms such as 'pro-Jihad.'"

"Trump’s efforts have inspired a grassroots campaign to identify possible targets for deportation. On #SocialMedia, groups such as #MothersAgainstCollegeAntisemitism and the #ChicagoJewishAlliance have shared links to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line and called on people to report 'foreign students and faculty who support Hamas' and 'students on visas who are suspected of engaging in pro-terror activities,' respectively."

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/02/06/be

Archived version:
archive.ph/fCZve
#McCarthyism #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #DontSnitch #ICE #ICERaids #ICEArrests #Deportation #CollegeStudents #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #USPol

The Intercept · The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to DeportBy Jonah Valdez
Replied to Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

⬆️ @Peter_Link @palestine @israel

>> #JewishVoiceForPeace Opposes #Trump’s Plan to Silence and Deport Anti-War Students

#JVP actively campaigned against #Biden & #KamalaHarris and bears significant responsibility for siphoning votes away from #Harris.

"Although 3rd-party candidates don't stand a chance…, I’m grateful that both #CornelWest and #JillStein have been clear on the need for a new #US policy"

Remember #FAFO? #BDS?

#Palestine Is a Core #Election2024 Issue

mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

#HealthWorkers Plan #GlobalDayOfAction to Demand 'End to the #Genocide in #Gaza' - Monday, January 6th, 2025

"After witnessing 15 months of relentless violence and destruction in Gaza, we can no longer carry on as if everything is normal," said organizer #DoctorsAgainstGenocide.

Brett Wilkins
Jan 03, 2025

"As Israel's 15-month annihilation of Gaza continues with intensified attacks on medical infrastructure and workers, an international coalition of advocacy groups is planning a #SickFromGenocide global day of action on Monday 'to take a stand against the targeted attacks on healthcare.'

"Organizer Doctors Against Genocide (#DAG) and co-sponsors including #HealthcareWorkersForPalestine, #PalestinianYouthMovement, #DoNoHarmCoalition, #LaborForPalestine, #JewishVoiceForPeace Health Advisory Council, and others are calling on healthcare workers around the world to take a day of mental health leave 'to reflect on the immense moral injury of funding a genocide and engage the most important aspect of treatment: publicly demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza.'

"Monday's day of action is set to include a '#SickFromGenocide' global vigil and pop-up clinics in cities across the United States, whose government gives Israel billions of dollars in weapons support each year.

"'For 15 months, we have watched in horror as children and families have been obliterated by unrelenting attacks,' DAG said in a statement Friday. 'Hospitals, the bedrock of lifesaving care, have been turned into death traps. The recent bombing and burning of #KamalAdwanHospital and the arrest of our colleague, the pediatrician Dr. #HussamAbuSafiya,exemplify the deliberate targeting of healthcare workers and facilities—tactics designed to accelerate the annihilation and forced displacement of the Palestinian people in Gaza.'"

Read more:
commondreams.org/news/doctors-
#FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #Genocide #BibiIsAWarCriminal #IsraeliWarCrimes #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #StopArmingIsrael #IDF #GenevaConvention #HumanRightsViolations #NoWar #WorldWarBibi

Common Dreams · Health Workers Plan Global Day of Action to Demand 'End to the Genocide in Gaza' | Common Dreams"After witnessing 15 months of relentless violence and destruction in Gaza, we can no longer carry on as if everything is normal," said organizer Doctors Against Genocide.