AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>In a sign that the Trump regime plans to continue its fascist repression of student protestors legally in the US and dissent in general, even as its authority to do so is being challenged in court, ICE has kidnapped another Columbia University anti-genocide protest leader. Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian who has legally been studying in the United States for the past 10 years, was arrested by ICE as he arrived for a citizenship test; now the regime seems intent on deporting him under the familiar Calvinball argument that Marco Rubio can deport anyone he deems "detrimental to U.S. foreign policy interests" on a whim; a tactic the administration has used to justify prior attempts to deport political prisoners Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, among others:</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ic</span><span class="invisible">e-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/</span></a></p><p>Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE</p><p>"Even before his friend and fellow Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by immigration authorities, Mahdawi asked university administrators to help him find a safe place to live so he would not be taken by ICE agents, according to emails reviewed by The Intercept. The school did nothing in response, Mahdawi said.</p><p>After ICE abducted Khalil last month, Mahdawi sheltered in place for more than three weeks for fear of being picked up himself. </p><p>Instead of taking him off the street, however, immigration authorities scheduled the citizenship test at the Colchester USCIS office and took Mahdawi into custody when he arrived.</p><p>Now, Mahdawi is facing an order to deport him to the occupied West Bank, where escalating attacks from both the Israeli military and Jewish settlers have led to increased casualties among Palestinians.</p><p>“It’s kind of a death sentence,” Mahdawi said. “Because my people are being killed unjustly in an indiscriminate way.”</p><p>Please also note that a number of other kidnapping targets taken by ICE, Mahdawi was previously marked out for reprisal by pro-Zionist smear group Canary Mission, and Betar, a far right hate group that's widely considered a fascist organization even in Israel; because apparently US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now taking foreign policy and national security advice from ultra-Zionist extremist hate groups that openly advocate for violence against Palestinians and protestors. Like all of the other anti-genocide protestors the regime has kidnapped, there is no evidence that Mahdawi is a "terrorist" or committed any serious crimes, except of course the Trump administration's argument that protesting a genocide is in and of itself, domestic terrorism.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MohsenMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MohsenMahdawi</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Betar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Betar</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanaryMission</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Kidnapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kidnapping</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtests</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a></p>
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In the face of ongoing Draconian state repression, Youth Demand has successfully disrupted London once again in two acts of mass civil disobedience.
The latest actions come amid a sweep of crackdowns in which cops have nicked protesters under the Tories’ dodgy pre-crime laws. However, clearly protesters remains undeterred – as they took two more actions across the capital.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/04/14/youth-demand-join/
Canary · More public violence, more state repression, but Youth Demand refuse to back downYouth Demand activists have disrupted the capital once more, as public violence and state repressions continues.
Former Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “an enemy who poses a direct threat to Israel’s security and should be subdued or captured.”
The statement sparked a fierce backlash from Netanyahu’s Likud party.
Speaking to Israel’s Channel 12 on Sunday, Halutz said: “There is an enemy who poses a direct threat to the security of Israel, and his name is Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Watan · Ex-Israeli Military Chief: Netanyahu Is a Threat to National Security and Should Be Subdued or CapturedFormer Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz labels Prime Minister Netanyahu a direct threat to Israel’s security, Netanyahu’s breach.. ceasefire
The World Health Organization has said conditions at hospitals in Gaza are "beyond description", after a major facility was put out of service by an Israeli air strike.
Spokeswoman Dr Margaret Harris told the BBC it was seeing "attack after attack" on hospitals and healthcare workers, and medical supplies were critically low due to Israel's blockade of the territory.
www.bbc.comConditions at Gaza hospitals 'beyond description', WHO saysThe agency says it is seeing "attack after attack" and supply shortages following an Israeli strike on al-Ahli hospital.
Betar US claims responsibility for giving names of pro-Palestinian activists, including Mahmoud Khalil, to the Trump administration.
We examine Betar’s roots, reach, and the institutions that surround it. Who’s backing this group, and why are students its latest target?
In this episode:
Jonah Valdez, reporter, The Intercept.
Demonstrators rallied in Times Square on Saturday after a US immigration judge in Louisiana ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil, despite his lawyers saying the government failed to provide enough evidence.
Khalil has been held at an ICE prison facility in Jena, Louisiana, for the past month, where his lawyers believe the Trump administration finds judges more favourable to the US government.
An Israeli airstrike has hit the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City — the last partially functioning hospital in the north.
Israel said it struck a command and control center used by Hamas at the hospital to plan and execute attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, without providing evidence.
TRT World discuss this further with Mads Gilbert, a Professor at the Clinic of Emergency Medicine at the University Hospital of North Norway.
'This genocide is wrong,' pro-Palestine protester shouts as UK police detain him in London. '20,000 dead children. It's disgusting. Keep coming out for Palestine, don't not be afraid, my friends.'
Denying the freedom to march under threat of arrest undermines the very foundation of democratic societies, suppressing the public’s ability to demand accountability. This course of action will deepen inequalities and risk long-term instability.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250414-uk-police-cracks-down-on-pro-palestine-rally/
