Trump Arrests Palestine Campus Organizer, But Millions Say, “No Way”
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On this special episode, Brian and Layan discuss the targeting of Palestinian organizer at Columbia University Mahmoud Khalil, who was illegally dragged from his campus housing by Department of Homeland Security officers and taken to an ICE detention facility as the Trump administration prepares to deport him. This is part of a nationwide effort to suppress the Palestinian solidarity movement on college campuses but the Trump administration’s target will impact all sectors of society. Read and sign the new open letter here: https://www.change.org/p/stand-with-our-students-protect-free-speech
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | A well-known Palestinian organizer at Columbia University was illegally dragged from his campus housing by Department of Homeland Security officers and taken to an ICE detention facility as the Trump administration prepares to deport him. |
| 0:15.8 | This is part of a nationwide effort to suppress the Palestine Solidarity Movement on college campuses, |
| 0:21.6 | but the Trump administration's target will impact all sectors of society. |
| 0:25.6 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:29.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:34.6 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. City. Welcome to the Socialist Program. |
| 1:03.0 | This is Leanne Zima Fulahan here with Brian Becker. |
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| 1:20.1 | Brian, we're going to talk about the mass movement that's growing rapidly right now in the country to free Mahmoud Khalid. |
| 1:27.1 | Leanne, this was dramatic on Saturday, March 8th. |
| 1:31.3 | DHS officials came to his house. |
| 1:34.3 | They knocked on the door or rang the doorbell. |
| 1:37.3 | Someone opened the door. |
| 1:38.6 | Perhaps it was his wife. |
| 1:39.9 | She's eight months pregnant, about to have a baby. |
| 1:42.8 | They stormed in. |
| 1:43.8 | They arrested him. She showed them, apparently, about to have a baby. They stormed in. They arrested him. |
| 1:45.3 | She showed them, apparently, according to his lawyer, she showed them that Mahmoud has a green |
| 1:52.1 | card that he can't be just immediately seized by ice. |
| 1:56.8 | And then apparently they made a call that said he has a green card. |
| 2:00.6 | And then somebody who they were talking to said he has a green card, and then somebody who they were |
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