At least 98 people were arrested Thursday in a protest in the Trump Tower lobby in Manhattan who requested the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-palestinian activist and head of the green card arrested for the application of immigration and customs this week.
Protesters face transfer and arrest resistance charges, according to the New York Police Department.
Hundreds of Jewish protesters who wore “no to our name” organized a seated in the Trump tower lobby in Manhattan. According to the police, the protesters entered the lobby in two groups, including many who entered the public lobby area with civil clothing that hides their protest team under the police.
New York police said they are familiar with this protest group and its tactics. As in other incidents of the Trump tower, the police were only called to the public lobby area once Trump’s security considered it necessary
The protesters brought banners in support of Khalil, who was leader of protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University, who said “the Jews say that Mahmoud free & Free Palestine “and” Fight Nazis, not students “.
“As Jews of conscience, we know our history and know where it leads this. This is what the fascists do that make cement control. This moment requires that all people of conscience take bold measures to resist state violence and repression. Now, Mahmoud, now, Jane Hirschmann, a Jewish New York whose grandfather and grandfather and uncle open up by the Nazis during the Nazis during the Nazis of Hitler’s energy to power, in a statement, in a statement.
The American-Islamic Relations Council also announced that it is presenting a federal lawsuit on behalf of Khalil and other students against the University of Columbia and the Education Committee of the US House of Representatives. UU. And the workforce on the request of the Committee to Reveal thousands of student records.
New York Police officers arrest a group protester, Jewish Voice For Peace, who protested within the Trump tower in support of the graduated student of Columbia Mahmoud Khalil, on March 13, 2025, in New York.
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Group Manifiers, Jewish Voice For Peace, protest within the Trump tower in support of the graduated student of Columbia Mahmoud Khalil, March 13, 2025, in New York.
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Khalil, who has not been accused of a crime, is currently being held in Louisiana after being arrested in New York earlier this week.
His wife, who has 8 months pregnant, said the couple has been preparing for the arrival of their baby.
“Mahmoud has been started from me without any reason. I am supplicating with the world to continue talking against its unfair and horrible arrest by the Trump administration,” he told ABC News on Wednesday.
The administration of President Donald Trump claimed that Khalil, who was leader of the protests of the Pro-Palestinian camp on the Columbia campus, was a defender of Hamas. Baher Azmy, one of Khalil’s lawyers, described his client’s alleged alignment with “false and absurd” Hamas.
Group Manifiers, Jewish Voice For Peace, protest within the Trump tower in support of the graduated student of Columbia Mahmoud Khalil, March 13, 2025, in New York.
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Group Manifiers, Jewish Voice For Peace, protest within the Trump tower in support of the graduated student of Columbia Mahmoud Khalil, March 13, 2025, in New York.
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“Leaving aside the false and absurd premise that advocating in the name of Palestinian human rights and defending public officials who stop a genocide ongo He said to ABC News on Monday.
The administration has not provided any evidence that shows Khalil’s supposed support to the militant group.
