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🗓️ 24 March 2025
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Headlines for March 24, 2025; Pro-Palestinian Cornell Student Momodou Taal Ordered to Surrender to ICE, Faces Possible Deportation; Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.; Law Prof. Katherine Franke Accuses Columbia of Empowering Trump by Agreeing to $400M “Ransom Note”
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0:00.0 | From New York, this is democracy now. |
0:18.5 | I think fundamentally, yes, I'm Gambian. |
0:21.0 | Yes, I'm British.. Yes, I'm British. |
0:23.1 | But fundamentally, I'm a human being. |
0:25.4 | And I think what Palestine does, when we say Palestine is a litmus test, we're saying that |
0:30.1 | it is not that we privilege the Palestinian cause among our over every other cause. |
0:34.8 | But rather, Palestine holds a mirror up into the world and says, |
0:39.2 | what kind of world do we want to live in? |
0:41.7 | Protest pressured Cornell University to re-enroll Ph.D. student, Mamadutal, |
0:48.4 | after he was suspended for joining pro-Palestine protests on campus last year. But now the dual citizen of the United |
0:57.5 | Kingdom and the Gambia finds himself targeted for deportation again after challenging the |
1:04.9 | Trump administration's executive orders targeting universities and protesters who are foreign |
1:10.4 | nationals. We'll speak with |
1:12.8 | Mamadutal from an undisclosed location as ICE demands he turn himself in. Then an update on the |
1:22.0 | case of Badr Khan Suri, a Georgetown professor who at his visa revoked and was detained by federal agents without |
1:31.1 | being accused of any crime. |
1:33.3 | His wife is a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent. |
1:37.6 | The significance of Dr. Suri's arrest, I think, is threefold. |
1:42.3 | Number one, an innocent man has been arrested. He's committed no crime. |
1:46.7 | His life has been destroyed. Number two, this is directly connected to the ongoing genocide in Gaza |
1:52.2 | and the attempt by the Trump administration to silence all anti-genocide voices. And number three, |
1:59.1 | there's a brutal attack taking place against universities in this |
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