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Sit-in at Trump Tower for release of Palestinian activist
Progressive US Jewish activists have been holding a protest at the Trump Tower in New York to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, who has been detained by immigration services over his advocacy for Palestinian rights.
Footage showed police officers arresting the protesters and escorting them out of the building.
“The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil by the Trump regime is further proof that we are on the brink of a full takeover by an authoritarian regime. As Jews of conscience, we know our history and we know where this leads,” Jane Hirschmann, an activist with Jewish Voice for Peace, said in a statement. 
Protesters who sat in protest in the lobby of Trump Tower arrested. They’re part of ongoing demonstrations over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.
US mayor moves to punish cinema for screening Oscar-winning Israeli-Palestinian film
The mayor of Florida’s Miami Beach is attempting to terminate his city’s lease agreement with an independent movie theatre after it screened the Israeli-Palestinian documentary No Other Land.
The move came after O Cinema ignored pressure from Mayor Steven Meiner and held several screenings of the film, which documents Israel’s destruction of the occupied West Bank town of Masafer Yatta, according to the Miami Herald.
Meiner described the film, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, as a “false one-sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people that is not consistent with the values of our City and residents”. He is now introducing legislation that would terminate the city’s lease agreement with the cinema and discontinue about $40,000 in financial support. 
Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham – winners of the Oscar for Best Documentary Film – on March 2, 2025
Trump is turning the USA into China. Authoritarian regime, disappearing dissenting voices / intellectuals, wants to make knockoffs of protected goods (American Champagne lol), suppressing freedom of Speech.
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