Students for Justice in Palestine is a pro-Palestinian college student activism organization in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Founded at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993, i
Protesters at a Students for Justice in Palestine rally in Berkeley, California, 2014
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine organized a mock Israeli Checkpoint.
Pro-Palestine protest at UC Berkeley in October 2023
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil was the US federal government's incarceration and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a student at Columbia University and a lead negotiator of the Gaza Solidarity
Mahmoud Khalil
The first iteration of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the East Lawn (April 17–18).
The second, autonomous iteration on the West Lawn (April 18–30), during which Khalil helped negotiate on behalf of the encampment with representatives of Columbia's administration.
United States district judge Jesse Furman (pictured) granted a writ of habeas corpus on March 10.