The State Department Relied on Columbia University's Mischaracterization of Protests to Arrest Mohsen Mahdawi - Free Speech News

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High-ranking officials at Columbia University, including then-President of the university, Shafik, have acknowledged in conversations with university stakeholders that Columbia had been wrong to characterize the event by the two student groups as including “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.”

A memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, reviewed and reported on by the New York Times, stated that one of the reasons for acting against Mahdawi was that he had “engaged in threatening rhetoric and intimidation of pro-Israeli bystanders.” The claim has been denied by Mahdawi and his lawyer. That phrase appears to have been lifted verbatim from a statement put out by Columbia University responding to a November 2023 protest.

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