Almost a hundred people were arrested this Thursday, March 13 during a demonstration led by a Jewish group in which they occupied the Trump Towerin New Yorkin protest of the arrest of Proportic activist From Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil.
Protesters denounced this Thursday that the president’s administration Donald Trump He has justified his detention as an action to combat anti -Semitism.
“Mahmoud’s kidnapping has nothing to do with security bean. He Trump government He believes that he can suppress dissent and snatch constitutional rights. We know this strategy. We refuse to allow our neighbors to be kidnapped in our name, “said Jewish Voice For Peace group on its X page.
At one point, the city police went to the Trump tower and arrested 98 people; While the agents took them to a city bus, they continued shouting asking for the Freedom for Khalil and Palestine.
The slogans
“As Jews, we are taking over the Trump Tower To express our massive rejection (to Khalil’s arrest). We will not be left with a crossed arms while this fascist regime tries to criminalize the Palestinians and all those who demand the end of the genocide of the Palestinian people perpetrated by the Israeli government and financed by USA. We will never stop fighting for a free Palestine, “he added.
At about noon, the protesters, who wore a red shirt in which “not in Our Name” was read (not in our name), occupied the lobby of the building, headquarters of the Trump organization and where the president maintained his official residence until he moved from New York In 2019.
Attendees also maintained banners with various messages such as “release Mahmoud”, “stop the prohibition of Muslims”, “free Palestine”, “never again for anyone” or “Jews for the freedom of Palestine”, and shouted asking for the liberation of the former university student.
Khalil, one of the leaders of the protests Protected That they took place at Columbia University last year and permanent resident in the US, he was arrested by immigration agents in the lobby of the building where he lives, owned by the University, when he arrived from visiting a friend with his wife, American and pregnant citizen of eight months.
Khalil was taken to an immigrants detention center in Louisiana without having presented charges, although the president Trump He accused him of his social network of being a “Radical Student Pro-Ahamas” and warned that this is the first of many arrests that will come, following their executive order against anti-Semitic activities.
On Monday, March 10, a judge temporarily arrested student deportation Palestinianwho has revoked his permanent residence permit.