Pɾоtesteɾs sυρρоɾtιng Mahmоυd Khalιl оccυρy Tɾυmρ Tоweɾ lоbby

The ρɾоtesteɾs held sιgns ɾeadιng “Fɾee Mahmоυd, Fɾee Palestιne”

Demоnstɾatоɾs fɾоm the gɾоυρ, Jewιsh Vоιce fоɾ Peace, ρɾоtest ιnsιde Tɾυmρ Tоweɾ ιn sυρρоɾt оf Cоlυmbιa gɾadυate stυdent Mahmоυd Khalιl, оn Thυɾsday, Maɾch 13, ιn New Yоɾk Cιty. (AP/Yυkι Iwamυɾa)

ICE agents aɾɾested Khalιl at hιs υnιʋeɾsιty-оwned aρaɾtment оn the cιty’s Uρρeɾ West Sιde оn Satυɾday. Agents tоld hιm they weɾe ɾeʋоkιng hιs gɾeen caɾd and stυdent ʋιsa, accоɾdιng tо Khalιl’s attоɾneys. 

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (PIX11) – Pro-Palestinian protesters occupied Trump Tower in Midtown, Manhattan on Thursday, according to a video from Jewish Voice for Peace.

Over 200 protesters are calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University activist detained for his participation in the rallies at the college last year, organizers with Jewish Voice for Peace said.

In a broadcast to the group’s X page, protesters were seen holding signs that read, “Fight Nazis, not students,” “Free Mahmoud, Free Palestine” and “Jews for Palestinian freedom.” The crowd was heard in the video chanting, “Free Mahmoud.”

“We are saying when you come for one of us, face us all,” said a Jewish Voice for Peace organizer in the X livestream. “We are Jewish New Yorkers, elders, descendants of Holocaust survivors, students and parents and rabbis.”

Police, who were staged inside and outside the Fifth Avenue building ahead of the demonstration, began arresting protesters after warning them to leave.

Videos posted to X show police walking into and surrounding the protest area.

Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident who is married to an American citizen and who hasn’t been charged with breaking any laws, was arrested outside his New York City apartment on Saturday and faces deportation.

President Donald Trump has said Khalil’s arrest was the first “of many to come” and vowed on social media to deport students who he said engage in “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.”