The Trump administration – after accusing Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil of being a Hamas sympathizer without providing evidence – now says Khalil’s deportation is justified because he did not reveal connections to two organizations in his application to become a permanent US resident,

Trump's administration argued that Khalil's First Amendment claims are a "red herring " and that there's "an independent basis to justify removal sufficient to foreclose Khalil’s constitutional claim here.

The Justice Department accused Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University who was detained by the Trump administration and had his visa revoked, of hiding his association with a controversial United Nations agency.

The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, taken away by Israeli soldiers and detained overnight, according to his family,

Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land." He was then detained by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank.

Ballal said he was held at an army base, blindfolded for 24 hours and forced to sleep under a freezing air conditioner.