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Emails Show Mohsen Mahdawi Pleaded with Columbia for Protection for Months Before ICE Detained Him (zeteo.com)

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Palestinian Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi pleaded with the school for protection for months, and expressed concern about an apparent FBI visit and a possible break-in to his residence before the Trump administration detained him during a citizenship interview this week, emails obtained by Zeteo show.

“I am writing to you with a final plea for urgent help. My life is in danger, and Columbia University’s inaction is putting me at further risk,” Mahdawi, a green card holder, wrote in a March 17 email to then-Columbia President Katrina Armstrong, School of General Studies dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch, Columbia chief operating officer Cas Holloway, senior vice president for Columbia Health Melanie Bernitz, and Columbia dean of religious life Ian Rottenberg.

“On Monday, March 10, 2025, following the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, I sent an urgent email requesting immediate support, as I am being explicitly targeted for deportation, doxxed, and followed. Yet, to this moment, I have received no response from you,” he continued.

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[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Nobody cares. That's the raw truth. There's supposed to be a war happening but it isn't because nobody cares and nobody has cared for so long that fighting back probably won't work.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yup. We should have been at war with Russia since 2016, and if we had fully committed ourselves, Russia would have collapsed by now, and we would be victors instead of victims

[–] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

It's hard to fight Russia when its program aligns with what the rich believe.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I think the issue is greater than Russia. I think the issue is within humanity in general regardless of nation and nothing will ever actually change until it's solved. Anything else is working with the players of the game that harm humanity.

The understanding that our figurative cage is unlocked but people choose to stay in it because the world outside it is filled with rawness and uncertainty that brings about extreme questions of what life and existence truly is.

Humanity vs darkness. Understanding that when groups form they will always end with corruption and lose the authentic purpose. Individuals need to own up to their own position and their own parts to play which they can only find after coming to terms with chaos/god.

Fixing the world starts from within. And when you master your self, that goodness spreads to your microcosm. As your microcosm or community learns from seeing you mastering self and understanding, they grow as well, and from there it changes your state. And from your state it changes the states around you. And it is all called up. That is the war of life. Weathering the storm and teaching understanding.

[–] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

Columbia University was/is complicit.

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

ICE are a bunch of bootlicking racist fascists.

Schools should stand up against trump policies.

But how exactly was Columbia supposed to provided protection? Hire mercenary groups to fight off ICE?

Supply every student with a gun and tell em they get points added to their GPA for every ICE agent iced?