Columbia student union rallies in support of Mahmoud Khalil

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Protests erupted at Columbia University on Friday (March 14) as demonstrators demanded the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil. Sherry Wolf, a union organizer said she was "horrified" by Khalil's deportation. - REUTERS

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00:00I'm out here because I'm horrified by what is happening to unions, to higher ed,

00:29to the weaponization of Judaism, to be used as some sort of excuse to crack down on civil

00:37liberties, and in particular on a Palestinian and Arab brothers and sisters, this is intolerable

00:42to me.

00:43We don't get it, shut it down.

00:44What do we want?

00:45A move back.

00:46What do we want?

00:47A move back.

00:48You know, I don't think they're calling for this, but really the whole campus should be

00:54shut down in protest, because this is an outrage, and otherwise they're just going to keep going

00:59after everybody.

01:00So that's why we say, hands off all the protestors.

01:01How many kids did you kill today?

01:02We want justice, you say how!

01:03We want justice, you say how!

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