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REPORT: The Trump administration is attempting to deport non-citizens due to their perceived pro-Palestinian support or criticism of U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Here’s an updated list of those known to have been targeted by the U.S. government: 🧵🔽

1. Mahmoud Khalil (Targeted: March 8, 2025)

Khalil, a 30-year-old Syrian-born Algerian citizen and Columbia University graduate student (master’s in international affairs), was arrested on March 8, 2025, at his Manhattan apartment. He’s detained at the ICE facility in Jena, Louisiana, facing deportation after the Trump administration accused him of risking “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States,” per a DHS document cited by The Guardian. On March 23, DHS filed additional claims, alleging he “withheld that he worked for [UNRWA]” and “failed to disclose continuing employment by the Syria Office in the British Embassy in Beirut” on his 2024 green card application, per Reuters. In Newark federal court on March 28, Judge Michael Farbiarz said he’d rule “as quickly as I can” on jurisdiction and bail, leaving Khalil in custody pending a decision.

2. Dr. Rasha Alawieh (Targeted: March 10, 2025)

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a 34-year-old Lebanese kidney transplant specialist set to join Brown University, was deported on March 10, 2025, upon re-entry from Lebanon. DHS accused her of supporting ex-Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, claiming photos on her phone showed “support for a terrorist figure,” per her lawyer’s statement to CNN. Despite a judge’s order against removal, she’s now in Lebanon, with her legal team fighting to reverse the deportation.

3. Yunseo Chung (Targeted: March 10, 2025)

Yunseo Chung, a Korean-American Columbia University undergrad studying political science, was targeted after her March 10, 2025, arrest at a Barnard sit-in. She’s not detained—a judge barred ICE from holding her—after DHS accused her of “concerning conduct likely to adversely affect U.S. foreign policy,” per a notice to appear cited by Newsday, tied to a misdemeanor from pro-Palestinian protests. Her legal challenge, arguing free speech as a longtime resident, continues without a deportation date.

4. Leqaa Kordia (Targeted: March 15, 2025)

Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank was detained on March 15, 2025 in the Newark NJ field office. She was previously arrested for her participation in the protests. Her visa was terminated in January 2022 for lack of attendance, officials said. Leqaa is currently at an ICE center in Alvarado, Texas, with ICE alleging she “overstayed her visa and engaged in activities threatening public safety,” per an AP statement, linked to protest presence. No hearing updates exist; she remains in custody as deportation looms.

5. Momodou Taal (Targeted: March 17, 2025)

Momodou Taal, a 31-year-old UK-Gambian doctoral student in Africana studies at Cornell, was briefly detained on March 17, 2025, after his visa was revoked over campus protests. He’s free, suing Trump after ICE claimed he “engaged in disruptive protests violating visa terms,” per a Cornell Sun report. His federal case, asserting free speech, has a hearing set for March 31; he’s not currently detained.

6. Badar Khan Suri (Targeted: March 19, 2025)

Badar Khan Suri, an Indian postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University studying peace and conflict, was arrested on March 19, 2025, in Virginia and is detained in Jena, Louisiana. DHS accused him of “spreading Hamas propaganda” and "close connections to a known or suspected terrorist” per a March 20 ICE filing cited by NBC News. His lawyers seek release, arguing no evidence exists; his case remains unresolved.

7. Ranjani Srinivasan (Targeted: March 20, 2025)

Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian doctoral student at Columbia studying sociology, fled the U.S. on March 20, 2025, after ICE searched her residence. The State Department revoked her visa, alleging she “advocated violence and terrorism” through pro-Palestinian views, per a DHS notice quoted by The New York Times—she denied organizing protests. Self-deported to Canada, her case is closed unless she returns.

8. Rumeysa Ozturk (Targeted: March 25, 2025)

Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral student at Tufts studying child development, was detained on March 25, 2025, in Massachusetts and transferred to the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile. DHS accused her of “supporting Hamas,” it appears through a 2024 Tufts Daily op-ed where she argued for divestment from Israeli genocide and the “equal humanity and dignity of all people.” A federal judge’s order against moving her out of the state was ignored; her team demands release, with a government response due March 31.

9. Alireza Doroudi (Targeted: March 25, 2025)

Alireza Doroudi, an Iranian doctoral student at the University of Alabama studying mechanical engineering, was detained on March 25, 2025, in Alabama, awaiting transfer to Jena, Louisiana. DHS accused him of posing “significant national security concerns,” per a March 25 ICE statement to Reuters, after revoking his visa in 2023—his lawyer says he stayed legal. He’s in custody, with deportation pending unless overturned; no hearing date is set.

Legal status of each:

1.Mahmoud Khalil - Columbia University
•Legal Status: Legal Permanent Resident (LPR). He’s a green card holder, married to a U.S. citizen, but ICE detained him over alleged ties to pro-Palestinian groups.

2.Ranjani Srinivasan - Columbia University (also NYU adjunct)
•Legal Status: Student Visa (F-1). Her visa was revoked for “advocating violence and terrorism,” per the administration; she self-deported to Canada.

3.Yunseo Chung - Columbia University
•Legal Status: Legal Permanent Resident (LPR). Moved from South Korea as a child, targeted for deportation after a protest arrest, but a court order has paused ICE action.

4.Badar Khan Suri - Georgetown University
•Legal Status: Exchange Visitor Visa (J-1). An Indian postdoctoral fellow, detained by ICE for alleged Hamas propaganda; he’s fighting deportation from a Louisiana facility.

5.Momodou Taal - Cornell University
•Legal Status: Student Visa (F-1). Dual UK/Gambian citizen, visa revoked for “disruptive protests”; he’s challenging it in court and hasn’t been detained yet.

6.Rumeysa Ozturk - Tufts University
•Legal Status: Student Visa (F-1). Turkish doctoral student and Fulbright scholar, detained by ICE after an anti-Israel op-ed; held since March 25, 2025.

7.Alireza Doroudi - University of Alabama
•Legal Status: Student Visa (F-1). Iranian Ph.D. student, detained for “national security concerns” after his visa was revoked in 2023, though he’d maintained student status.

8.Leqaa Kordia - Columbia University (not officially enrolled)
•Legal Status: Expired Student Visa (F-1). Palestinian from the West Bank, detained for overstaying her visa (expired 2022) after protest involvement; held in Texas.

9.Rasha Alawieh - Brown University
•Legal Status: Work Visa (H-1B). Lebanese doctor and professor, deported March 14, 2025, despite a valid visa, after admitting to attending Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral; her lawyer is fighting to reverse it.

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Oct 8

🟡 Statement Issued by the Media Office of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

A leadership delegation from the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine will arrive tonight in Sharm El-Sheikh to participate in the ongoing indirect negotiations concerning a ceasefire, the withdrawal of the occupation army, reaching a prisoner exchange deal, and the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip.

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine – Media Office
Wednesday, 16 Rabi' al-Thani 1447 AH | October 8, 2025 AD

On the ground, the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of PIJ, marked the second anniversary of the October operation by reaffirming a pledge to continue resistance until occupation ends. The group said it seeks an end to the war and lifting of the siege — but warned that enemy prisoners “will not see the light of day except through an honorable exchange deal in which the Zionist entity commits to ending the war.”

The statement also praised allied forces and urged intensified actions across the West Bank. Full statement below.

“On the second anniversary of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa”

Military statement issued by the Al-Quds Brigades
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O masses of our steadfast and steadfast Palestinian people, today marks the second anniversary of the heroic Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, which coincides with the thirty-eighth anniversary of our blessed jihad, a turning point in the history of the conflict with the Zionist enemy. During this period, the Palestinian resistance wrote one of the greatest battles against Nazism and the Zionist oppression of our people over the course of decades. During this period, the enemy practiced all forms of killing, destruction, and displacement against our people everywhere, in blessed Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, and in the Gaza Strip. It bombed, besieged, and starved, recording the worst holocaust and tragedy throughout the ages, in full view of the world, which watched silently.

Two years ago, the Palestinian resistance carried out a blessed operation against enemy army positions along the fence east of the Gaza Strip. Our heroic fighters displayed great scenes of heroism, courage, and sacrifice. They captured a large number of captured soldiers and officers and engaged in direct clashes from ground zero. During these operations, our fighters killed hundreds of enemy soldiers and captured dozens. Our resistance offered convoys of its finest fighters as martyrs, wounded, and prisoners.
Since that date, our resistance has continued to confront this criminal, murderous enemy, which has declared a destructive and devastating war, killing tens of thousands of defenseless civilians in Gaza, the majority of whom are children, women, and the elderly. However, the resistance has found no way to undermine the resolve of our steadfast, rooted people who cling to their land and homeland.
Over the course of two years of fighting, the resistance has been committed to stopping this war and alleviating the suffering of our people. It has offered all the necessary flexibility to conclude an agreement whose sole condition is ensuring an end to the war and the lifting of the siege on our people. However, the Netanyahu government has continued the war to achieve the goals of his extremist coalition.

Two years have passed since the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, and we are still confronting the enemy's army divisions, brigades and battalions, which are destroying homes, streets and buildings in Gaza. We are confronting its forces and inflicting losses on them in the longest battle with this enemy since the establishment of its temporary entity. During this battle, we have offered hundreds of fighters and leaders as martyrs who were at the forefront of tens of thousands of our Palestinian people during two years of fierce fighting and unparalleled steadfastness with minimal resources on the road to Jerusalem and liberation. This battle, which witnessed great steadfastness from our resistance, prevented the enemy from achieving its declared goals.

We, in the Al-Quds Brigades, as the second anniversary of the blessed Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa passes, we affirm the following:

1- Our people's resistance, led by the Al-Quds Brigades and the Al-Qassam Brigades, will continue as long as the occupation exists, and we will spare no effort in fighting it. We have prepared ourselves for a long war of attrition that will not stop or retreat until it is eliminated.

2- The fate of the so-called "Gideon 2" operation, which involves systematic destruction, mass murder, and psychological terrorizing of our people, will only lead to more disappointment, defeat, and defeat.

*3- We affirm that we and all Palestinian resistance factions will spare no effort to find a way to end this war and the suffering experienced by our people in the Gaza Strip. We have been keen to achieve this for many months.*

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Oct 6

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg raised her fist as she and about 160 other Global Sumud Flotilla participants arrived in Greece to roaring cheers. Crowds welcomed them after their release from illegal Israeli detention.

Greta later addressed supporters — her remarks are below.

Greta Thunberg:

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.

What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an entire population, an entire nation in front of our very eyes.”

Greta:

“I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

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Oct 5

“Hamas’s Strategic Gamble”

Thread on the latest report by Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill 🧵

1. Trump’s Plan and the Stakes
➤ Trump unveiled a 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan, framing it as an ultimatum: accept or face escalation.
➤ Plan includes prisoner exchange, ceasefire, aid, withdrawal — but also Palestinian national issues like foreign troop deployment, an international board run by Trump and Tony Blair, and Palestinian disarmament.
➤ Both Trump and Netanyahu said rejection would mean intensified war.

2. Limits of Mandate

➤ Palestinian factions agreed Hamas and Islamic Jihad could negotiate on exchange, ceasefire, aid, and withdrawal.
➤ Mohammed al-Hindi (Islamic Jihad deputy head) told Drop Site:
“Regarding the resistance factions, our jurisdiction is concerning matters of prisoner exchanges in return for halting the aggression, withdrawal, the entry of aid, and stopping the policy of displacement against our people. As for the national issues, the resistance factions are not authorized to speak on them alone, as these concern all factions and forces of the Palestinian people everywhere.”

3. Hamas’s Dilemma

➤ Past: Hamas amendments were spun as rejections by US and Israel → led to more massacres.
➤ Outright rejection of Trump’s plan = risk being cast as rejecting peace.
➤ Acceptance = surrender.

Hamas needed a middle course.

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Oct 2

REPORT | Dr. Mohammed Al-Hindi, deputy head of Islamic Jihad, on Trump’s Gaza plan, and the wider struggle:

1. A Plan Drafted for Netanyahu
➤ Al-Hindi called the Trump draft “a congratulatory note between Trump and Netanyahu” — written to give the occupation, on paper, what it failed to win after two years of war.

➤ He explained that the revisions openly legitimize Netanyahu’s core positions: rejecting a Palestinian state outright and reducing it to a mere “aspiration,” while permitting annexation of the West Bank.

➤ Trump himself, Al-Hindi noted, “said he now accepts Netanyahu’s rejection of a Palestinian state,” showing the draft was tailored to accommodate Israel’s stubbornness and defiance of international law and repackage it as international consensus.

2. Criminalizing Resistance
➤ The text begins with the demand that Gaza be “free of terrorism.” Al-Hindi said this means nothing less than “free of resistance” and Gaza stripped of arms necessary for liberation.

➤ He stressed that this wording locks in Israel’s version of events:

“From the very first line, it reinforces Israel’s claim that the problem is a security problem, that on October 7 terrorists attacked Israel. It erases that this is an occupation, decades of aggression, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.”

➤ By framing the resistance as “terrorism,” he argued, the draft makes any Palestinian faction a criminal entity and rewrites the entire conflict: “It is not a question of occupation and national liberation anymore, but of ‘terrorists’ who must be disarmed and expelled.”

3. Trusteeship and U.S.–Israeli Control
➤ Al-Hindi warned the plan imposes a system of foreign control that strips Palestinians of sovereignty: It hands sovereignty to a “Board of Peace” led by Trump and Tony Blair, effectively giving security to Israel and municipal services to unelected technocrats.

➤ Under this arrangement, all political, security, and economic decisions would fall under international trusteeship — an American mandate in Israel’s favor.

➤ “It cancels any national political process, even with the Palestinian Authority, which would be forced into “reforms” based on American and Israeli standards,” he warned.

4. Al-Hindi’s On Terms of the Deal
➤ He said the factions “have no objection to a comprehensive deal” where all prisoners are released in exchange for:
1. A real and permanent halt to aggression
2. Full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
3. Relief and reconstruction
for the Palestinian people.

➤ He said: “We seek amendments that guarantee withdrawal, the halt to aggression, and safeguards against displacement. We want a written guarantee that the war will stop… and we want to guarantee against expelling our people outside Gaza.”

5. The 72-Hour Demand is Impossible
➤ The draft requires all captives be released within 72 hours.

➤ “Even if they were in one house, it could not be done in 72 hours. With the destruction, bombardment, and graves of Gaza — everyone knows this is impossible.”

6. Withdrawal Must Be Scheduled
➤ The only scheduled item in the plan is the release of Israeli prisoners.
➤ “[Israeli] withdrawal is left vague and tied to disarmament. We demand it be phased and explicitly linked to prisoner releases.”

7. Guarantees to Stop the War
➤ Al-Hindi insisted that without guarantees, Israel will resume killing under any pretext:
“We want a written guarantee of a true end to aggression. Not two days for prisoner handover, then Israel resumes its massacres, as it has in Lebanon and Syria.”

8. On Disarmament
➤ “These are not the weapons of Hamas or Jihad. They are the weapon of the Palestinian people. We are in a stage of national liberation. We will not give them up.”
➤ He warned that surrendering arms is a trap: “When Palestinians surrendered their weapons in Lebanon, the massacres of Sabra and Shatila followed.”

Continued… 👇

9. Trump’s Threats Do Not Intimidate
➤ Trump threatened to give Israel a green light to “finish the job militarily” if factions refused within 72 hours.
➤ Al-Hindi replied: “Tons of American bombs have already fallen on our people from American planes with American intelligence. This threat does not frighten us.”

10. Starvation and Massacres
➤ He acknowledged the Israeli siege, engineered starvation, and daily civilian massacres as “the real pressure” facing the resistance.
➤ “Our hearts bleed for our people. But does this plan stop the aggression? That is the key.”

11. National Project Cannot Be Surrendered
➤ Al-Hindi said the plan attempts to liquidate the Palestinian national project and replace it with foreign trusteeship under Trump, Blair, and Israel.
➤ “These questions — Gaza, the West Bank, the future of Palestine — belong to all Palestinians. No faction can surrender them.”

12. Closing Message
➤ “We will not be deceived by illusions and false promises. We will not allow the issue to be reframed as ‘Palestinian terrorism.’ The real issue is occupation, U.S.–Israeli hegemony, and genocide. Our people are not broken, and we will not surrender our rights.”

📌 TLDR: Al-Hindi divided the issues raised by the deal into two distinct buckets.

➤ Resistance Issues:

The exchange of captives, a ceasefire, and Israeli withdrawal — all require clear schedules and guarantees.

And seek clarification on clause about demands to ‘decommission arms,’ since “these are the arms of the Palestinian people in a liberation struggle.”

➤ National Issues:

Broader questions—“the day after,” governance of Gaza, the West Bank, and the future of the Palestinian cause—cannot be decided by one faction.

Al-Hindi said these require all-Palestinian consultation. He warned the current Trump plan reduces Palestinian sovereignty to a trusteeship, giving Israel security control, the U.S. hegemony, and “technocrats” municipal authority—an arrangement he called an American mandate in Israel’s favor.

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Sep 24

1/ THREAD:
🇨🇴 Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s final address to the UN General Assembly directly confronted Donald Trump, who he said was complicit in genocide in Palestine, and was now seeking to bring that genocidal violence to the Latin American sphere. The speech, which lasted nearly 45 minutes - denounced war crimes, genocide in Palestine, cruel immigration policies, America’s so-called war on drugs, and climate inaction - prompting the U.S. delegation to walk out. Here are the key moments 🧵

It began:

“This is my last speech here as president. It is my fourth.

In the first, I told this Assembly that a conflict was likely to erupt, both in Ukraine and in Palestine. I called for a peace conference. But those of us without bombs or big budgets are not listened to here.

Four years later, the horrific situation in Palestine has shown me that the same—or nearly the same—could happen in the Colombian Caribbean, when missiles are fired at young, unarmed people in the sea.

Now we face a different situation—perhaps a more global one. Today’s barbarism is planetary, falling on all of humanity. Missiles rained down on 17 unarmed youths in the Caribbean Sea—perhaps some Colombians. Millions of migrants are persecuted, imprisoned, chained, and expelled. Missiles rain down on the 70,000 people of Gaza, killing them. The climate crisis remains unaddressed, its words erased by Trump. All of this is connected, all part of the same cause.”

2/
On Palestine and Gaza:

Petro said today’s barbarism is global. Missiles fell on 17 unarmed youths in the Caribbean “just as they fall on the 70,000 people in Gaza and kill them.” He accused Trump of being complicit in “genocide,” declaring: “It is genocide and we must shout it over and over.”

3/
On the war on drugs:

“They said missiles in the Caribbean were to stop drugs. A lie. In 2023 and 2024, Colombia seized record cocaine and extradited 700 narcos—without firing a single missile or killing a single youth.”

He argued the U.S. drug war is about colonial domination, not public health.

“Hundreds of thousands of Colombian peasants have been massacred, just as children are massacred in Gaza.

These massacres were ordered by senators, presidents, ministers—Colombian politicians bribed by drug cartels, allied with Florida’s far right and now with Trump’s government, allied for decades with cocaine capos. True esquifos, as Italians say, allied with esquifos—and they make drug policy from Washington.

Does Trump even know his Colombia, Venezuela, and Caribbean policy is advised by Colombian allies of the cocaine mafia? I denounced them by name for years in Congress, as a senator. They tried to kill me many times for it. They wanted to silence me, to stop me from becoming president, and now they want to topple a progressive government. That is why they “decertify” me, calumniating Colombia.”

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Sep 22

🧵 THREAD | Senior Hamas Official Osama Hamdan Interviewed by Al Jazeera (September 21, 2025)

1. On Negotiations & Trust in Mediators

Hamdan said the Israeli attack on Hamas’ negotiating team in Doha proved “this enemy is treacherous and aggressive, and cannot be trusted for even one moment.” He accused the United States – despite acting as a mediator with Qatar and Egypt – of giving Israel time and political cover to continue the genocide, citing Washington’s recent veto of the UN Security Council resolution for an immediate ceasefire supported by 14 other members.

He said there is no serious proposal on the table now, and that Hamas would only consider an agreement that includes:
▪️A complete cessation of aggression and a permanent ceasefire
▪️Full withdrawal from Gaza
▪️Open crossings for unrestricted aid
▪️Reconstruction of Gaza
▪️A fair prisoner exchange

He noted that Hamas has never insisted on participation in Gaza governance as a condition, and that they are open to a technocratic administration eventually leading to general Palestinian elections. The obstacle, he insisted, is Israel’s intransigence, not the Palestinian position nor the Arab mediators.

2. On Disarmament Demands

Hamdan rejected the idea that Hamas might disarm: “The talk of giving up weapons is not on the table.” He argued that surrendering arms would mean surrendering the philosophy of resistance — exactly what colonial powers have always wanted. Palestinians, he said, tried the path of compromise in Oslo, giving up 77% of historic Palestine, yet still received nothing. “The right way forward is ending the occupation entirely, not bargaining away more rights.”

3. On Global Recognition & Next Steps

Asked about Western recognition of a Palestinian state despite Gaza’s devastation, Hamdan said recognition is a step in the right direction but insufficient alone. It must be followed by:
▪️International measures compelling Israel to respect Palestinian rights
▪️Sanctions, boycotts, and isolation of Israel politically and economically
▪️Continued Palestinian resistance and steadfastness

Only this combination, he said, will force Israel to retreat and secure Palestinian rights.

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