Sunday marked one year since Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, was arrested last year for his political advocacy. Below, he writes to Leqaa Kordia, a fellow Palestinian currently in ICE detention in Texas. Your detention, my detention, the detentions of so many others, they are all pieces of the same story. I carry that detention center in Jena with me. I carry the night they came for me and the night I walked out and every night in between.

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2026 17:22 UTC