"They didn't like what I said, so they went looking for a reason to deport me." Australian writer Alistair Kitchen describes his detention, interrogation and deportation for having written about pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University.

Drop Site In a stinging rebuke of Columbia University’s lack of support for him, Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia graduate who was arrested by immigration agents from inside his university housing building in March, says that the Columbia administration hasn’t cared to call, that he

NEW unpaywalled: My months-long investigation into the use of hate crime charges against Palestine supporters since October 7th. I found 17 individuals who have faced hate crime charges for pro-Palestine activity or speech, and focused on a few cases here: jewishcurrents.org/how-support-fo…

The detention, interrogation, phone search and deportation by CBP of journalist Alistair Kitchen at LAX in retaliation for his reporting is a blatant attack on press freedom and an authoritarian state tactic. This is a shameful stain on Homeland Security and this whole administration.

BREAKING: Antoinette Lattouf has defeated the ABC in her legal case after being unlawfully terminated in 2023 over social media posts made in relation to the Israel-Gaza war, the Federal Court has found.

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It’s legal for white boys to say inshallah again

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They’re calling it an extraordinary rebuke of Yglesianism

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“WIRED PUBLISHED A shocking investigation this week based on records, including audio recordings, of hundreds of emergency calls from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers. The calls—which include reports of incidents of staff sexual assaults,

Breaking news via Knight First Amendment Institute: "A senior ICE official testified that the agency assembled a team in to investigate student protestors. The team rapidly compiled over 100 reports based on a list of 5,000 people identified on the Canary Mission website."

I believe I was on this list when I was deported. If you have more information, please reach out. Signal in bio, identities protected. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/…

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Journalists are often encouraged not to make themselves the story when their rights are infringed. But staying silent about press freedom violations allows aggressors to act with impunity.

It's clear to me that First Amendment protections of journalists and non-citizens "are not nearly as firm as we’d like to believe," says Australian writer Alistair Kitchen, who was deported after interrogation at LAX in June. Read and watch our interview:pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…

Journalist Alistair Kitchen was denied entry into the U.S. in June. He was put on a plane back to Australia after being detained for 12 hours at LAX and questioned about his coverage of the pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University. Watch our interview: youtube.com/watch?v=NFeNaz…