New York (AP) demonstrator of a Jewish group filled the Trump Tower’s lobby on Thursday to arrest the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped the management of protests against Israel at Columbia University.
The demonstrators of the Jewish voice for peace wore red shirts in which “Jews say that they stopped Israel” and banners when they were on the lower level of the public atrium of the Fifth Avenue building “Bring Mahmoud Now!
After the demonstrators had warned to go, the police said that they had arrested 98 people because of various charges, including violation, disability and resistance to arrest.
Khalil, a 30-year-old constant US resident who is married to an American citizen and was not charged for laws, was arrested on Saturday in front of his apartment in New York City. It is recorded in an immigration center in Louisiana.
President Donald Trump said that Khalil’s arrest was the first “of many who come”, and had sworn on social media to deport students, of whom he said that they were committed to “pro-terrorist, anti-American activities”. The White House did not immediately respond to a message that was looking for a comment on the demonstration of Trump Tower.
Among those who took part in the protest on Thursday, the actor Debra winger, who accused the Trump government, was “no interest in Jewish security” and “to co-opt” anti-Semitism “.
“I only stand up for my rights and stand up for Mahmoud Khalil, who was illegally kidnapped and brought to an unknown place,” she told the Associated Press. “Does that sound to America?”
The demonstrator Sophie Edelhart, who studies at a school in Canada Yiddish, said the building – with his golden escalator, who rode Trump before the announcement of his president – was a symbolic goal.
Trump Tower serves as the headquarters for the Trump organization and stays where the President is in New York. The skyscraper often attracts demonstrations, both against and to support its namesake, although protests are less common inside. The multi -storey atrium is accessible to the public and combines visitors with restaurants like the Trump Grill.
Khalil’s followers say that his arrest was an attack on freedom of speech and staged protests in the city and all over the country in front of a courthouse in Manhattan in a low hearing on Wednesday.
Columbia University was a focus of the Propalestinian protest movement, which swept last year on the US college campus and led to more than 2,000 arrests.
On Thursday, Khalil and seven of pseudonyms identified a lawsuit submitted a lawsuit in which a congress committee had submitted the acquisition of the disciplinary documents from Columbia and Barnard College to obtain the disciplinary documents from Columbia and the Barnard College for students who were involved in the protests on campus.
The lawsuit that was submitted before the Federal Court in Manhattan against the schools, the House Committee for Education and the Association and the Chairman, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich.
The committee sent a letter last month in which Columbia and Barnard provide the records or risks of billions of dollars of federal financing. The plaintiffs claim that the committee is abusing its authority to “cool and suppress and suppress” language and union on the basis of the expressed point of view “and that his investigation” threatens to significantly violate the rights of first change “.
The Associated Press Links E -Mail messages that apply for a commentary for speakers for Walberg, the Committee and the Barnard College. Columbia refused to comment on the pending legal disputes.
Khalil, whose wife is pregnant with her first child, ended his requirements for a master’s degree in Columbia in December.
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Associated Press Reporters Michael Hill in Albany and Michelle L. Price, Michael R. Sisak and Joseph B. Frederick contributed.
