Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against senior Trump administration officials and several pro-Israel organisations, accusing them of conspiring to target, detain and deport him because of his advocacy for Palestinian rights. The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the complaint on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Hardline Zionist groups the Heritage Foundation, Canary Mission and Betar, as well as White House adviser Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other current and former officials, are named in the complaint. The lawsuit alleges that the government worked with the private groups to identify non-citizen students and scholars who supported Palestine before […]
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