White House oversaw arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. Now another Palestinian has been arrested
The Associated Press reports: On Thursday, Khalil’s lawyers filed new court documents describing how he was rushed from New York to Louisiana last weekend in a manner that left the outspoken Columbia University graduate student feeling like he was being kidnapped. The experience reminded Khalil of when he left Syria shortly after the forced disappearance of his friends there during a period of arbitrary detention in 2013, the lawyers wrote. According to the lawsuit, Khalil repeatedly asked to speak to…