A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents of rising authoritarianism in the US.

This spring, in association with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, three university branches of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) brought a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportations targeting noncitizen students and scholars engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy. The defendants — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Todd Lyons, the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforceme

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