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CUNY Targets Pro-Palestinian Students and Staff in Latest Crackdown

HeadlineJul 11, 2025

Here in New York, students and staff at City University are demanding school administrators rehire four faculty members who’ve been let go for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. They’re also demanding CUNY reverse its yearlong suspension of student organizer Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik.

This comes as Trump officials acknowledged they used the anti-Palestinian doxxing website Canary Mission to compile a list of student targets for deportation. The revelation came as part of testimony in the AAUP v. Rubio trial. Click here to see our conversation about that trial in Boston.

In related news, Mahmoud Khalil has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the Trump administration over his arrest, ICE detention and defamation. Khalil also said he’d accept an official apology in lieu of the millions of dollars in damages. The Columbia University graduate was the first pro-Palestinian campus protester to be jailed by the Trump administration.

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