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2025-03-19 Fifth Column
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Cornell student suit against deportation of anti-Israel activists cites Jewish group
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[IsraelTimes] Gambian-British grad Momodou Taal, who was suspended for leading protests last year, notes Betar US has called for his expulsion from country
A Cornell University graduate student has filed suit against the Trump administration’s efforts to deport pro-Paleostinian campus protesters, saying that the push represents an illegal infringement on protected speech.
Citizens can say pretty much anything, so long as they aren’t shouting fire in a movie theater. Visitors need to be polite, or they can be kicked out just because the authorities feel like it — they actually don’t have the right of free speech, as far as I can tell. Momodou Taal is a Gambia
... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain...
n-British national who has been a protest leader at the upstate New York university.
He has two different connections. Why did he go to America for his graduate degree? Cornell briefly suspended him in both April 2024 and September 2024, following protests on its campus that administrators said violated university rules.
Taal has also been the target of advocacy by pro-Israel groups that have sought to identify students who might be eligible for deportation under US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s executive order targeting those who endorse terrorism or antisemitism on college campuses.
According to a fact sheet about the order, it aims to "combat the earth-shattering kaboom of anti-Semitism on our campuses and in our streets since October 7, 2023," the date that Paleostinian terror group Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
invaded southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, abducting hundreds of hostages, and triggering the ensuing war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip.
Critics say the measure is aimed more broadly at pro-Paleostinian campus protesters, with rights groups and legal scholars saying it would violate constitutional free speech rights and would likely draw legal challenges.
The lawsuit, filed Friday on behalf of Taal and two other Cornell affiliates by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee,
…no connections to an African-Brit, but anyway… cites targeting by a pro-Israel group, Betar US, as a reason that Taal should face relief:
"Mr. Taal has also been directly targeted by Zionist groups advocating for his removal from the US. In November 2024, Betar US ("Betar") compiled a list of pro-Paleostinian foreign students it sought to have deported, naming Mr. Taal as the sole individual identified. Betar’s director, Ross Glick, delivered this list to Senator John Fetterman and aides from the offices of Senators Ted Cruz;
...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke , who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet...
and James Lankford, later telling the New York Post, "They all gave me the thumbs up." And added that Betar was in communication with prospective Trump administration appointees at the Department of Justice regarding enforcement actions against individuals on the list. ..."
On March 13, 2025, Betar posted a "Deport Alert" that specifically named Taal.
In that alert, posted on social media, Betar US cited Taal’s social media posts and speeches at rallies to claim that he had expressed support for "armed resistance" on behalf of the Paleostinian cause. They note that he disclosed his non-citizen status in an interview with Inside Higher Ed last fall, in which Taal said he feared that he was effectively facing deportation because of his suspension.
Betar US, which has taken a murderous Moslem approach to anti-Israel protests, has generated a list of student protesters that it says are not citizens and shared it with the Trump administration, aiming for their deportation. How the administration is using the list is not clear, but pro-Israel Jewish groups called attention to Mahmoud Khalil in the days before the Columbia University graduate student was arrested by ICE agents last week and cheered his arrest.
"Mr. Taal’s growing fear that he will be the target of an ICE removal operation is grounded in a pattern of escalating attention, coordination among high-ranking political and influential private actors, and public threats by figures with the power to influence immigration enforcement decisions," the suit said.
The lawsuit also noted that Taal and some of his fellow protesters have ceased meeting publicly to discuss their activities, fearing that any communication would be perceived as showing support for Hamas.
"This lawsuit is aimed at reversing the chill on speech and making people feel confident to stand up," Taal said in a statement on Sunday. "I am fighting for our First Amendment rights and our ability to protest genocide, and stand in solidarity with the Paleostinian people. When we are attacked for speech, we have to exercise even more of it."
In past remarks posted to social media Taal has described the urge to "smash something" as the "sexy part of organizing [protests]" and that the US "like Zionism, has an insatiable bloodlust."
During his first suspension in April 2024, following the dismantling of Cornell’s pro-Paleostinian encampment, Taal addressed supporters on campus. "Before I go to bed, I say to myself, ’If I live into my eighties, will I ever regret going this hard for Paleostine?’ and I won’t," he said, speaking into a megaphone, according to video shared by the Cornell Daily Sun student newspaper. "So whilst I love all the support and solidarity from faculty, from my comrades, from my peers, please, do not let this become about any one of us."
The Hamas attack and the subsequent Israeli campaign against the terrorist organization led to months of pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protests that roiled US college campuses, with several heads of top universities resigning in the wake of criticism over their responses to antisemitism at their schools.
Many anti-Israel protesters denied supporting Hamas or engaging in antisemitic acts and said they were demonstrating against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, where Hamas health authorities say more than 47,000 people have been killed, an unverified figure that doesn’t differentiate between non-combatants and fighters.
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