{"id":37432,"date":"2025-03-30T18:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/columbia-alumni-rip-up-diplomas-to-protest-activist-mahmoud-khalils-arrest\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T18:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:41:38","slug":"columbia-alumni-rip-up-diplomas-to-protest-activist-mahmoud-khalils-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/columbia-alumni-rip-up-diplomas-to-protest-activist-mahmoud-khalils-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia alumni rip up diplomas to protest activist Mahmoud Khalil\u2019s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group of Sipa graduates demonstrate against government\u2019s jailing of graduate student, who spoke up for Palestinians<\/p>\n<p>A handful of alumni from Columbia University\u2019s school of international and public affairs (Sipa) ripped their diplomas in a show of protest against the federal government\u2019s jailing of graduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mahmoud-khalil\">Mahmoud Khalil<\/a>\u2019s over his activism for Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, instead of participating in the university\u2019s annual Sipa alumni day, a few dozen alumni and students gathered outside campus as part of a protest organized by Sipa\u2019s and Barnard Alumni for Palestine groups.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/30\/columbia-alumni-diplomas-mahmoud-khalil\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group of Sipa graduates demonstrate against government\u2019s jailing of graduate student, who spoke up for Palestinians A handful of alumni from Columbia University\u2019s school of international and public affairs (Sipa) ripped their diplomas in a show of protest against the federal government\u2019s jailing of graduate student Mahmoud Khalil\u2019s over his activism for Palestinians. On Saturday, &#8230; <a title=\"Columbia alumni rip up diplomas to protest activist Mahmoud Khalil\u2019s arrest\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/columbia-alumni-rip-up-diplomas-to-protest-activist-mahmoud-khalils-arrest\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Columbia alumni rip up diplomas to protest activist Mahmoud Khalil\u2019s arrest\">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-37432","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\/37432","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=37432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}