The family members of Israeli captives are filing a claim against Mahmoud Khalil and various other Columbia University objection coordinators for supposedly running Hamas’ “propaganda arm” on university.
The suit, submitted in the Southern District of New York on Monday, files a claim against Khalil, a previous Columbia college student that was the major leader of Columbia University Apartheid Divest and a spokesperson for the supposed “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” in addition to Nerdeen Kiswani, the founder and chair of Within Our Lifetime; Maryam Alwan, a rep for Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine; and Cameron Jones, a rep for Columbia-Barnard Jewish Voice For Peace
“Defendants in this case are Hamas’ propaganda arm in New York City and on the Columbia University campus,” the suit claims. “We know this because they advertise themselves as such. Their self-described acts in furtherance of their goals to assist Hamas have included terrorizing and assaulting Jewish students, unlawfully taking over and damaging public property and university property on Columbia’s campus, and physically assaulting Columbia University employees.”
The issue claims the accuseds “act behind veiled scarves and largely seek to be anonymous individually, yet seek to intimidate as a group.”
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Thousands march throughout Manhattan requiring the launch of previous Columbia trainee Mahmoud Khalil in New York City on March 18, 2025. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu using Getty Images)
“This case will pull down those scarves and unveil acts that violate this country’s antiterrorism laws,” the match claims. “This case will finally hold these admitted terrorists accountable for their actions. It is time for American campuses to return to being centers for learning and to be saved from relentless occupation by Hamas’ tragically misguided cohorts.”
The complainants are targets of Hamas’ “heinous and ongoing acts of international terrorism that began on Oct. 7, 2023, the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” the issue notes.
They consist of 6 family members of captives that stay kept inGaza Hostages that were released or saved signed up with the suit, consisting of Iris Weinstein Haggai, the child of killed Israeli-Americans Gad andJudy Haggai Three American Israel Defense Forces soldiers are likewise called as complainants.
Anat Alon-Beck, a regulation teacher dealing with the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC), claimed the suit highlights an issue of nationwide safety.
“While the U.S. cherishes free expression, it unequivocally condemns violence. Ironically, those who champion such support would be silenced under Hamas’ oppressive regime, starkly illustrating the contrast between our cherished freedoms and their brutal tyranny,” she claimed in a declaration.
Nerdeen Kiswani, a Palestinian-American protestor and a founder and chair of Within Our Lifetime, joins an anti-Israel rally outside The Trump Building on Wall Street in Manhattan, New York, on March 19, 2025. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu using Getty Images)
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“This case gives voice to heretofore seldom spoken facts. JVP, WOL, CUAD, the Students for Justice in Palestine collective, and student leaders on campuses throughout the country, are serving as instruments of Hamas, a foreign Terrorist Organization that hates the United States and the very values these anti-Israel college protestors claim to represent,” NJAC Associated Director Ben Schlager claimed. “The leadership of these campus protestors knowingly affiliates with those who applaud any form of physical, emotional or economic harm that can be inflicted upon citizens of a western democracy.”
Hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators collect before Donald Trump’s Wall Street structure to objection in New York on March 19, 2025. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu using Getty Images)
“The right to advocate and even to propagandize is broadly construed in the U.S., on college campuses and in a vast array of fora,” NJAC CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Mark Goldfeder, claimed. “It is not, however, unfettered and certainly does not encompass acts of violence, vandalism, physical intimidation, trespassing and breach of university rules that ensure student safety. Nor does it support the provision of material support for terror.”
Arielle F. Klepach, a previous government district attorney and Senior Litigation Counsel at NJAC, claimed “this first-of-its-kind lawsuit seeks to hold accountable the entities and individuals directly responsible for wreaking havoc on Columbia for the last year and a half. As a Columbia alumna, the open and unaddressed support for terrorism has been disturbing to watch.”
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“Those responsible will now begin to face consequences for their actions,” Klepach included.
