Jamil Dakwar
@jdakwar
Human Rights Lawyer and Adjunct Professor @NYUniversity & @Hunter_College. Currently with @ACLU. Formerly with @HRW @AdalahCenter **Personal account**
Hard to find words to describe the daily barbaric atrocities committed by Israeli forces against civilians fighting starvation in Gaza. Trump admin and US senators who recently met with Netanyahu must be held accountable for allowing Israel to continue the genocidal war.
The crime of starvation is unfolding before the eyes of the world. People choose to die by bullets outside the Israeli-American hunger engineering centers rather than from starvation. So far, no fewer than 1,000 starving Palestinians have been killed outside these centers.
This suggests UN expert Francesca Albanese is doing something right. US sanctions won’t deter her and other international human rights experts and bodies from speaking out and taking action against Israel’s mass atrocities in Palestine.
Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt @IntlCrimCourt action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives. Albanese’s campaign of political and economic…
Political interference in US education undermines academic freedom and equitable access to education: UN expert @UNSR_Education presents to #HR59 her country visit report to #USA 🇺🇸, warning against the authoritarian encroachment on universities. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
This Father’s Day, join me in calling for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.
NYU prides itself on being a global institution committed to academic freedom and the exchange of ideas. But punishing a student for using his voice to speak out against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza is deeply troubling and runs counter to these values. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated. aclu.org/news/privacy-t…
The #US must immediately release Palestinian rights-activist Mahmoud Khalil & stop threats of deportation against foreign residents: UN experts sound warning about escalating 🇺🇸 Govt crackdown on student activism & censorship of pro-Palestinian voices. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
Deporting international students involved in pro-Palestinian protests will escalate trauma & polarisation on US campuses: UN experts urge US authorities to end to repression & retaliation, incl. through arbitrary detention of lawful permanent residents. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
Mahmoud Khalil’s unlawful and retaliatory detention flies in the face of United States’ most sacred constitutional principles and sets a dangerous precedent for government abuse of power to silence and punish dissenting voices.
A newly released video shows the moment pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by federal immigration agents at Columbia University. abcnews.link/uOroyfB
Wish all journalists did their job like Michel Martin. Listen to her NPR interview with DHS deputy secretary about Mahmoud Khalil’s unlawful detention. npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-…
In a document instructing Mahmoud Khalil to appear in immigration court for removal proceedings, the @DHSgov disclosed the basis for its effort to deport him. As was widely suspected, it is relying on a provision of the 1952 Immigration and Naturalization Act that says the…
ACLU Strongly Condemns Unlawful Arrest and Detention of Columbia Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil: aclu.org/press-releases…
35 UN rights experts alarmed by Trump's funding freeze, warn it threatens freedoms and human rights worldwide. freeassemblyandassociation.net/u-s-foreign-ai…
This is very troubling. @Columbia University has obligations to protect its students’ rights to engage in protest without fearing intimidation, discrimination, retaliation or unlawful and discriminatory punishment.
WhatsApp group Columbia Alumni for Israel "which counts over 1,000 members, including parents, at least one current student, and Columbia professors" is mobilizing to get students arrested & deported for the crime of protesting for Palestinian lives/rights.
"There is no doubt that the larger goal is to dismantle – or at least severely disrupt – international human rights and global justice frameworks that have, for decades, protected our collective, universal rights and provided avenues for accountability." aclu.org/news/human-rig…
💡 Excellent read by colleague @jdakwar, director of the Human Rights Program at @ACLU, on Trump's efforts to erode universal human rights and weaken accountability for violations – a "targeted chaos." aclu.org/news/human-rig…
My latest on Trump’s recent executive orders sanctioning the @IntlCrimCourt, disengaging from the Human Rights Council and reviewing U.S. participation in international organizations and treaties: aclu.org/news/human-rig…
An outdated mining law from 1872 allows US companies to claim mineral rights on most federally owned land, much of which was taken from Indigenous people. A new report from HRW and the ACLU shows how the US government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass…