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The families of the Israeli hostages are demanding Mahmoud Khalil and others Columbia University The organizers of protests to allegedly direct the “propaganda arm” of Hamas on the campus.
The lawsuit, presented in the Southern New York on Monday, demands Khalil, a former graduate student of Columbia who was the main leader of the disadvantage of the apartheid of the University of Columbia and a spokesman for the so -called “Solidarity Camp of Gaza”, as well as Nedeen Kiswani, the co -founder and president of within our life; Maryam Alwan, representative of Columbia’s students for justice in Palestine; and Cameron Jones, a representative of Columbia-Barnard Jewish Voice for Peace.
“The defendants in this case are Hamas’ propaganda arm in New York City and on the Campus of the University of Columbia,” says the demand. “We know this because they advertise themselves as such. Their self -written acts in the promotion of their objectives to help Hamas have included terrorizing and assaulting Jewish students, illegally assuming and damaging public property and university property on the Columbia Campus, and physically assaulting the employees of the University of Columbia.”
The complaint says that the defendants “act behind the veiled scarves and largely seek to be anonymous individually, but seek to intimidate as a group.”
Thousands march through Manhattan demanding the launch of former Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil in New York City on March 18, 2025. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu through Getty Images)
“This case will demolish those scarves and will present acts that violate the anti -terrorist laws of this country,” says the demand. “This case will finally hold these terrorists admitted for their actions. It is time for American campuses to become centers for learning and save themselves from the tireless occupation by tragically wrong cohorts of Hamas.”
The plaintiffs are victims of the “atrocious and continuous acts of Hamas of International terrorism That began on October 7, 2023, the deadliest day for the Jewish people from the Holocaust, “says the complaint.
They include six hostage relatives that remain held in Gaza. The hostages that were released or rescued joined the demand, including Iris Weinstein Haggai, the daughter of the murderers Gad and Judy Haggai. Three soldiers of the US Defense Forces are also appointed as plaintiffs.
Anat Alon-Beck, a law professor who works with the National Center for Jewish Defense (NJAC), said the demand highlights a issue of national security.
“While the United States appreciates free expression, violence unequivocally condemns. Ironically, those who defend that support would be silenced under the oppressive regime of Hamas, illustrating at full speed the contrast between our precious freedoms and its brutal tyranny,” he said in a statement.
Nerdeen Kiswani, a Palestinian-American and co-founder activist and president of within our life, participates in an anti-Israel concentration outside the Trump building on Wall Street in Manhattan, New York, on March 19, 2025. (Selcuk Port/Anadolu through Getty Images)
Video shows the arrest of the Anti-Israel leader of Columbia Mahmoud Khalil
“This case gives voice to the facts so far rarely spoken. JVP, Wol, Cuad, the students of Justice in the Palestine Collective and the student leaders on the campus throughout the country, are serving as instruments of Hamas de Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that hates the United States and the values that these anti-Israel Protestants claim to represent,” said the director of NJAC associated Ben Schlager. “The leadership of these Campus protesters is known knowingly with those who applaud any form of physical, emotional or economic damage that can be inflicted to citizens of a western democracy.”
Hundreds of antiisraelí protesters meet in front of the Donald Trump Wall Street building to protest in New York on March 19, 2025. (Selcuk Port/Anadolu through Getty Images)
“The right to advocate and even propagandize is interpreted widely in the United States, On the University Campus And in a wide range of forums, “said the CEO of Njac, Mark Goldfede,” however, it is not without restrictions and certainly does not cover acts of violence, vandalism, physical intimidation, intrusion and breach of the university rules that guarantee the safety of students. Nor does it support the provision of material support for terror. “
Arielle F. Klepach, former federal prosecutor and lawyer for NJAC senior litigation, said that “this demand for the first time seeks to hold the entities and individuals directly responsible for causing Havoc in Columbia during the last year and a half. As a student of Columbia, the open support and not returned by terrorism has been disturbing to observe.”
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“Those responsible will now begin to face consequences for their actions,” Klepach added.
