{"id":416,"date":"2025-03-14T06:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T06:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/2025\/03\/14\/mahmoud-khalil-sues-columbia-university-for-activism-records\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T06:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T06:04:27","slug":"mahmoud-khalil-sues-columbia-university-for-activism-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University for activism records"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate, has filed a lawsuit against his alma mater, alongside seven other unnamed individuals, to block the university from handing over student activists&#8217; personal information to lawmakers in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, is a response to a request from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, led by Rep.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Walberg, which demanded disciplinary records from students involved in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil, who holds a green card and is a lawful permanent US resident, was arrested over the weekend and is currently being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>He has not been charged with any crime, but the Trump administration claims that Khalil poses a threat to US international policy interests, justifying the potential revocation of his green card by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge has temporarily blocked the government\u2019s attempt to deport Khalil.<\/p>\n<p>The new lawsuit is a direct response to the letter from the House Committee, which has accused Columbia of failing to protect Jewish students, a claim that Khalil\u2019s legal team believes is being used to suppress free speech and target Palestinian and Arab students.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil and other student activists, who participated in peaceful protests, argue that complying with the House Committee\u2019s request would result in the release of sensitive personal information.<\/p>\n<p>This could expose hundreds of students, faculty, and staff to harassment, threats, and doxing, they contend.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit also includes a warning that non-compliance could result in a loss of federal funding, with the Trump administration threatening to withhold $400 million in grants from the university.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil\u2019s legal team further claims that the committee is using accusations of antisemitism to attack ideas that they ideologically oppose, accusing them of spreading anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil, who acted as a liaison between the protesters and the university administration during the protests, started receiving threats prior to his arrest. He volunteered to speak to the media and became a prominent figure in the student protest movement.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit names several parties, including Columbia University, Rep. Walberg, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Columbia&#8217;s board of trustees, and Barnard College, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate, has filed a lawsuit against his alma mater, alongside seven other unnamed individuals, to block the university from handing over student activists&#8217; personal information to lawmakers in Washington. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, is a response to a request from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}