Hundreds of demonstrators marched from Times Square to Columbus Circle in New York on March 15 to demand the release of activist and US green card holder Mahmoud Khalil.
Mahmoud was arrested by immigration personnel on March 8 for his role in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University which riled up “anti-Jewish” sentiment and amounted to support for Hamas.
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Mahmoud was arrested by immigration personnel on March 8 for his role in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University which riled up “anti-Jewish” sentiment and amounted to support for Hamas.
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00:00Say it loud! Say it clear! Say it loud! Let's say you make us proud! Let's say you make us proud!
00:15Turn around, turn around, turn around, turn around. I'm resisting, I'm resisting.
00:19Okay, okay, he's not resisting. He's giving me his phone, okay?
00:22I understand, he's not resisting.
00:24Put your arms around. There's no need for this.
00:27Don't worry about it. You're gonna have to come with us.
00:29No, no, I'm coming with you. Don't worry.
00:34You guys really don't need to be doing all of that.
00:36It's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
00:38Have you been keeping it to yourself?
00:40Take Amy, call Amy, she'll be fine.
00:42Okay, no.
00:49The lawyer would like to speak with somebody.
00:52Excuse me.
00:54Stand back.
00:55His lawyer would like to speak with someone.
00:57They're just like, they're all ignoring me.
01:01Our next speaker is Grant Miner.
01:04And I don't know if you guys heard, but yesterday, Grant Miner, our student, was fired.
01:10Before we started bargaining with the University for our new contract, I was expecting...
01:15That the attacks on Mahmoud Khalil are not attacks on an individual.
01:20They're an attack on everyone.
01:23I know this forever, and I'm not for students now.
01:30And I'm not for students.
01:32We've been treated poor.
01:34We've been treated poor.
01:36We've been treated poor.
01:38We need free policy.
01:40Stop him now.
01:43Stop him now.
01:47Lesbians, lesbians.
01:49I don't know them.
01:51I don't know them.
01:54Allahu Akbar.
01:56Allahu Akbar.
01:58It's protest.
02:00It's protest.
02:02It's protest.
02:04Any contacts, cancelling the collective bargaining session is disrespectful and...
02:08Free the state of our workers now.
02:15I'm out here because I'm horrified by what is happening to unions, to higher ed,
02:22to the weaponization of Judaism,
02:24to be used as some sort of excuse to crack down on civil liberties,
02:30and in particular on a Palestinian and Arab brothers and sisters.
02:33This is intolerable to me.
02:35It's so important to say that America's a constitutional, liberal democracy
02:40where we're allowed to speak and not be retaliated against for what we believe in.
02:43But more than that, fighting for an end to bombing and free speech and expression
02:49and labor rights at work, we have to show up for each other
02:52in order to make sure those things happen.
02:54I don't think they're calling for this,
02:56but really the whole campus should be shut down in protest
02:59because this is an outrage and otherwise they're just going to keep going after everybody.
03:04So that's why we say, hands off all pro-Palestinian protesters.
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