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Almost 100 arrested during protest occupying Trump Tower over Mahmoud Khalil

13 mars 2025 à 20:35

Demonstrators led by Jewish Voice for Peace demanding release of Palestinian activist stood in US president’s New York City building

Protesters organized by a progressive Jewish group occupied the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian Columbia University student held by US immigration authorities. About 100 were arrested.

Chanted slogans included: “Free Mahmoud, free them all” and: “Fight Nazis, not students.”

Trump condemned for using ‘Palestinian’ as slur to attack Schumer

The Guardian

Par :Martin Pengelly in Washington

12 mars 2025 à 22:27

US president said of Senate minority leader: ‘He’s not Jewish any more. He’s a Palestinian’

Donald Trump has been condemned by a leading US Muslim civil rights group for seeking to use the word “Palestinian” as an insult when he attacked the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, as “not Jewish any more”.

“President Trump’s use of the term ‘Palestinian’ as a racial slur is offensive and beneath the dignity of his office,” said Nihad Awad, the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or Cair.