- Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil filed a civil rights lawsuit against Columbia University, alleging administrators failed to address harassment against pro-Palestinian students and retaliated against them.
- The suit claims the university's deliberate indifference and refusal to correct false narratives contributed to Khalil's arrest by federal immigration officers at his campus home in March 2025.
- Khalil spent 104 days in a Louisiana immigration facility amid the Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators before a federal judge ordered his release.
- The filing alleges Columbia retaliated by framing student group events as security risks and updating disciplinary policies to restrict criticism of the Israeli government.
- Co-filed by a suspended pro-Palestinian student organization and its president, the suit seeks court-ordered campus access for Khalil, the lifting of the group's suspension, and monetary damages.
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