A group of Israeli citizens filed a legal document this week in support of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University who was taken into custody during his naturalization interview in April before he was released on bail. The 26 Israeli citizens, most of whom are faculty members and students at the Ivy League school in New York, filed an amicus brief backing Mahdawi, a pro-Palestinian activist, in his ongoing immigration case. The government filed an appeal arguing that the federal district court did not have jurisdiction over Mahdawi’s claims and therefore did not have the authority to release...
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