This is the latest episode of The Intercept Briefing podcast discussing Momodou Taal and his lawsuit.
First it was Mahmoud Kahlil, a Columbia University graduate student arrested for speech. Now it’s Momodou Taal, a graduate student at Cornell University.
The attacks on our First Amendment rights to free speech and protest are under fire and we must fight back before we end up sliding all the way into Fascism.
“Anything that shows solidarity of Palestine is being mischaracterized quite erroneously as antisemitism. That’s the way in which they are trying to get us to stop speaking about Palestine,” says Momodou Taal, a Cornell University graduate student and activist now facing deportation after challenging the Trump administration in court.
The risks of political speech have escalated dramatically for international students like Taal. He spoke to The Intercept Briefing yesterday, underscoring the chilling reality he and his peers now face. “It’s not just that you might get kicked out of school or suspended,” says Taal, “but you are threatened with deportation and ICE custody now. That’s what’s at stake here.”
Listen to the full conversation of The Intercept Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
