Political Disappearances Have Begun: Mahmoud Khalil Detained and What's Next Under Trump w/ Nerdeen Kiswani
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🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Sign and support Mahmoud here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-immediate-release-of-columbia-student-pro-palestine-advocate-mahmoud-khalil-from-dhs-detentionFollow Nerdeen here for updates: https://x.com/NerdeenKiswaniThis episode is about the disappearing and potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil - Palestinian activist detained by ICE over Columbia University protests. President Trump has likened him to a terrorist sympathizer for saying such direct quotes as ““As a Palestinian student, I believe that the liberation of the Palestinian people and the Jewish people are intertwined and go hand-by-hand and you cannot achieve one without the other.” He told CNN last spring. We’re going to be talking to Nerdeen Kiswani - Palestinian-American activist and organizer. She is a co-founder and chair of Within Our Lifetime, a pro-Palestinian activist group in New York City, and Marie Adele - third year student at Barnard/Columbia and activist for Palestine who know Mahmoud personally. We’re also going to be doing a know your rights call to action at the end of this because they’re trying to make the 1st amendment - fungible.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Colonial Outcast, the anti-imperialist podcast that your problematic uncle will hate, because we are going to be discussing why it's dangerous for the state to be able to disappear people for their anti-war political beliefs. |
| 0:15.9 | And he loves that the state can do that. |
| 0:18.0 | This episode is about the disappearing and potential deportation |
| 0:20.9 | of Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian activist, detained by ICE, Immigrations and Customs, |
| 0:28.5 | enforcement for our overseas listeners, over Columbia University protests. President Trump has |
| 0:33.9 | likened him to a, quote, terrorist sympathizer, unquote, for saying such direct things as |
| 0:39.7 | as a Palestinian student, I believe that the liberation of the Palestinian people and the Jewish people |
| 0:46.3 | are intertwined and go hand in hand, and you cannot achieve one without the other, he told CNN last spring. |
| 0:53.3 | This sets a pretty dangerous and overtly fascist |
| 0:56.1 | president for the Trump 2.0 administration. We're going to be talking to Nardine Kizwani, Palestinian-American |
| 1:02.0 | activist and organizer. She's the co-founder and chair of Within Our Lifetime, a pro-Palestinian |
| 1:07.5 | activist group in New York City, and Maria Del Grosso, a third year student at |
| 1:12.7 | Barnard Columbia, an activist for Palestine, who knows Mahmoud. Personally, we're also going to be doing |
| 1:18.0 | a know-your-rights call to action here at the end of this because we're trying to, because they're |
| 1:23.1 | trying to make the First Amendment fungible. I'm your host Greg Stoker, former U.S. Army Ranger turned |
| 1:29.0 | anti-war activist and geopolitical analysts, and to the three-letter agency case officer watching this, |
| 1:35.6 | hi, I know what you got on me. I had a top secret security clearance back in the day when I was |
| 1:40.8 | part of Joint Special Operations Command, so you've got my biometrics, |
| 1:50.5 | fingerprints, DNA, you know who my high school guidance counselor was, and you know every country I've ever been to and you know that I didn't have a girlfriend in high school. So very shy and awkward |
| 1:55.0 | back in the day. But saddle up. You might learn something from this episode, but I doubt it |
| 2:00.0 | since you make over six figures a year |
| 2:01.9 | with benefits in order to perpetuate state violence and the repression of Americans. That's actually |
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