A Columbia University graduate held for months in connection with his pro-Palestinian activism was released on June 20 from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement custody, according to the student's ...

Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil was honored at a protest outside Columbia University just days after being released from an immigration detention center.

Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of anti-Israel activists at Columbia University, was arrested by ICE agents. LP Media Khalil (second from left) protesting at Columbia on Oct. 12, 2023.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian who recently completed his graduate studies at Columbia University and played a leading role in campus protests last year, was taken into custody by U.S.

As he was being abducted by plainclothes ICE agents in March, Mahmoud Khalil told his wife Noor Abdalla to “call Amy,” his ...