{"id":78678,"date":"2026-09-14T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/mahmoud-khalil-sues-columbia-university-over-years-of-alleged-anti-palestinian-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:55:40","slug":"mahmoud-khalil-sues-columbia-university-over-years-of-alleged-anti-palestinian-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/mahmoud-khalil-sues-columbia-university-over-years-of-alleged-anti-palestinian-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University over years of alleged anti-Palestinian discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit accuses university of \u2018deliberate indifference\u2019 and failure to respond to \u2018persistent and coordinated harassment\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mahmoud-khalil\">Mahmoud Khalil<\/a> announced on Monday that he\u2019s sued Columbia University, accusing the New York City school he attended of a years-long history of anti-Palestinian discrimination, indifference to harassment, and retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil, a US green card holder of Palestinian descent, was a graduate student at Columbia\u2019s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) when he was arrested at his university apartment by federal immigration agents in March 2025, the first of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/17\/trump-effort-deport-pro-palestinian-students\">a number<\/a> of foreign nationals that the Trump administration has detained and sought to deport over their pro-Palestinian advocacy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/14\/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit accuses university of \u2018deliberate indifference\u2019 and failure to respond to \u2018persistent and coordinated harassment\u2019 Mahmoud Khalil announced on Monday that he\u2019s sued Columbia University, accusing the New York City school he attended of a years-long history of anti-Palestinian discrimination, indifference to harassment, and retaliation. Khalil, a US green card holder of Palestinian descent, was &#8230; <a title=\"Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University over years of alleged anti-Palestinian discrimination\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/mahmoud-khalil-sues-columbia-university-over-years-of-alleged-anti-palestinian-discrimination\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University over years of alleged anti-Palestinian discrimination\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78678","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=78678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}