{"id":35570,"date":"2025-03-10T13:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/rubio-and-homeland-security-confirm-arrest-of-palestinian-activist-who-helped-lead-columbia-protests\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:31:42","slug":"rubio-and-homeland-security-confirm-arrest-of-palestinian-activist-who-helped-lead-columbia-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/rubio-and-homeland-security-confirm-arrest-of-palestinian-activist-who-helped-lead-columbia-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio and homeland security confirm arrest of Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahmoud Khalil was detained by Ice despite having a green card and his lawyers do not know where he\u2019s being held<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/10\/donald-trump-tariffs-republicans-canada-china-us-politics-latest-live-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A spokesperson for the US\u2019s homeland security department \u2013 as well as the country\u2019s top diplomat \u2013 have confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/09\/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-columbia-protests\">the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil<\/a>, a graduate student at Columbia University until this past December who helped lead protests at the school against Israel over the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland security department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the arrest of Khalil \u2013 who holds permanent US residency \u2013 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8\">statement<\/a> on Sunday to Associated Press, saying it was made to support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> presidential orders \u201cprohibiting antisemitism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/10\/palestinian-activist-columbia-arrest-ice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahmoud Khalil was detained by Ice despite having a green card and his lawyers do not know where he\u2019s being held US politics live \u2013 latest updates A spokesperson for the US\u2019s homeland security department \u2013 as well as the country\u2019s top diplomat \u2013 have confirmed the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at &#8230; <a title=\"Rubio and homeland security confirm arrest of Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/rubio-and-homeland-security-confirm-arrest-of-palestinian-activist-who-helped-lead-columbia-protests\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rubio and homeland security confirm arrest of Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}