Khalil’s arrest casts Columbia University into the spotlight almost a year after protesters set up an encampment on the Ivy League school’s lawn to protest the war — part of a nationwide movement on campuses across the country. It also signals the Trump administration’s escalating approach to pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses.

A Manhattan federal judge will hear a challenge to the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, one of the ringleaders of anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last year who the Trump administration is trying to deport.

Pacific Lutheran University is one of 60 higher-education institutions in the nation under investigation for alleged antisemitic discrimination and harassment, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Federal agencies canceled $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University over failure to address antisemitic harassment during pro-Palestine protests.

Columbia University is fighting two wars at once. One rages publicly against President Trump, whose administration in recent days ordered the arrest of a student protester and canceled federal funds to the Ivy League school over allegations of antisemitism.

The federal government has terminated $400 million in funds to the Ivy League university although investigations into alleged antisemitic harassment are continuing. The Trump administration’s sudden and fairly unprecedented termination of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to Columbia University raises worries among the nation’s K-12 schools that something similar could happen to their funding,

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