SHOTLIST: NEW YORK, US (JUNE 2, 2024) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) (FILE FOOTAGE) 1. PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTORS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (TWO SHOTS) 2. SOUNDBITE (English) STUDENT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, MAHMOUD KHALIL SAYING: "Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. This weekend, a group of Palestinians supported the students, supported by the Columbia community, established a new encampment style installation called Revolve for Rubber installation. One amid the school's alumni reunion. Within minutes of our set up, however, the students were violently attacked by public safety without any warnings. The school public safety officers invaded the camp and aggressively tore down the tents and injured students. They refused any attempts to talk and deliberately broke the poles, holding up the tents and their attempts to deter the students from expressing their rage at the genocide of the Palestinian people. Public safety injured two students. The university only deal with us has been any matter. They don't want to engage with any with any of the students. The images coming out of Rafah where beyond human imagination decapitated babies, children in cars and reduced to ashes that can be held in the palm of one hand. The massacres in Rafah, using American made weapons, have impacted Palestinian students greatly. And we have heard nothing, nothing from the university, no condemnation, no expressions of fear, silence from the university. And while every university in Gaza has ceased, has been destroyed. Your expressions of care for academic freedom this and this continues. Your silence on this, on the death of your academic colleagues is shameful. Despite the anguish and despair we have gathered peacefully in community to grieve and feel safe with one another, we have created the only safe space for Palestinians on this campus with no help from the university. Camp activities have included art installation, lotteries, movie screenings and teaches one particular art project that we would like to draw attention to is the paper mache replica of a £2,000 rocket dropped on the fence in Rafah. We want to draw attention to what the university. This university is invested in, which is that.. and we want to be clear, this is not a disruption directed at the alumni reunion, but a request for the alumni to join to join us in questioning where University funds our tuition and their donation are going. Specifically because of the lack of transparency from the university, we are led to assume that the university's $13.6 billion endowment invested in companies that profit from war or manufacturing, weapon manufacturing and genocide. We're asking alumni to condemn the university's president and board of trustees for colluding with billionaires who have been actively engaged with the Israeli war cabinet and directing them to send an militarized NYPD police force on American students they are supposed to protect. Where do your loyal loyalties lie with peaceful American students or with a foreign government? Demands have remained the same around divestment, boycott, amnesty for everyone, stopping the genocide in Gaza and supporting Palestinian students. Since the end of the last encampment, the university has not reached out to us, implying that they were disingenuous in their negotiation and they only cared about securing the South Lawn for graduation. And instead of expressing safety and care for Palestinian students who have been directly impacted by the terror of the Zionist state. Since our first encampment, the main message was Gaza. Now the main the main message is Rafah. And we want to keep this centralized Palestine. What's happening in Palestine is centralized." 3. SOUNDBITE (English) STUDENT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, LAYLA SALIBA SAYING: "The media can say, what can say whatever they want. But ultimately what we are doing is about Palestine and about what is going on in Rafah, and we've made that as clear as possible. I also want to say that this is something very personal for many students. Many Palestinian students at Columbia have lost family. We feel we strongly feel that the university needs to change their course of action. We prefer to all the media and especially Columbia has treated the death, the death and the destruction in Gaza, the deaths of Palestinians as normal or acceptable. I also want to add to is that alumni are very upset and how many students have been treated. Columbia has said has consistently disregarded the safety and well-being of students in order to appease donors and trustees and the Israeli government. And we are saying that is unacceptable. This is and this is an institute of education. This is not a hedge fund. This is not a business. And you all need to treat your students better. It's appalling. I mean, we were attacked with chemicals. 15 students were hospitalized earlier this year and Columbia did nothing. Columbia has attacked us with NYPD beating. NYPD left students with concussions. It's been really horrific. And although the violence although this violence that we're experiencing, although it's a small fraction compared to what people in Palestine are dealing with, it's still unacceptable. I mean, when I was applying for grad school, I never thought that I would face Columbia, get threatening the national park this. That's something that they did to us and that's messed up." 4. SOUNDBITE (English) STUDENT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, MARYAM ALWAN SAYING: "I think there's a multitude of factors. I mean, we already said from the get go that we would not leave until Columbia divest from genocide and apartheid in general. But again, the horrific invasion of Rafah, which was supposed to be a red line. I mean, Israel has threatened the ICC. It's clear that international law does not is not stepping in here. So the shouldn't have to take things into our own hands. And we have to say this is enough. We have to pressure our universities, grassroots from the ground up and say we need divestment. We need to make a stop."NEW YORK, US - JUNE 2, 2024 - FILE FOOTAGE: A US immigration judge ruled Friday that a Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist can be deported under a rarely used federal law, citing foreign policy concerns, according to media reports. Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident and green card holder, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers March 8 at his Columbia University housing in New York City. He was initially taken to a facility in neighboring New Jersey before being transferred to a detention center in the state of Louisiana. Judge Jamee Comans found Khalil could be removed from the country based on a determination by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who claimed that Khalil's presence "would compromise a compelling US foreign policy interest." Comans gave Khalil's legal team until April 23 to file an appeal. If they fail to meet the deadline, reports indicate that a removal order by the judge would be issued to deport him to Syria or Algeria. Rubio's memo argued that allowing Khalil to remain in the US would undermine "US policy to combat antisemitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States." Marc Van Der Hout, one of Khalil's attorneys, criticized the government's case, stressing it lacked supporting evidence and targeted constitutionally protected First Amendment activity. Khalil's attorneys said the government failed to prove allegations that he misrepresented information on his green card application. Rubio previously posted on X that "we will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported." After Khalil’s attorneys filed a legal challenge, a federal judge in New York issued a temporary order blocking his deportation. The case was later transferred to New Jersey after Khalil was moved to a detention facility in that state.