In January 2024, Shai Davidai made a video edit of me and Mohsen at a protest, splicing in clips of Hamas leaders. He then circulated it to massive Zionist accounts. The result? Nonstop rape threats, deportation calls, and a wave of violent incitement. The protest he filmed was in response to a chemical attack by Israeli soldiers on Columbia’s campus, which hospitalized multiple students, including myself. At that protest, Mohsen warned: if this violence is allowed to escalate, one of us will pay the price. Once again, we see a clear pattern. Mahmoud was detained just days after Shai Davidai launched a racist campaign against him online in collaboration with Canary Mission. Mohsen has now been kidnapped. Shai Davidai has been going after him for almost 2 years now, knowing that he has lost multiple family members in Palestine. Columbia has not said Mahmoud or Mohsen’s name in any communications whatsoever. They have not responded to desperate reports from multiple students concerned for their physical safety as a result of this professor’s incitement. Shai Davidai is quite literally on paid leave and has made a full-time career out of inciting state violence against vulnerable Arab & Muslim students. None of these incidents have happened in isolation. This is completely, 100% the fault of Columbia University. They want you to think they have no option but to capitulate to every single demand of zionists and the Trump administration but we can see that the Tufts University admin has put out a declaration of support for Rumseya Özturk, demanding her release. We can see that Harvard is at least pretending to not concede to the Trump administration’s demands (although they have in many ways). Columbia is COMMITTED to endangering their Palestinian students. They want their Arab & Muslim students to face the extent of state violence and repression so they don’t have to do it themselves. They want you to believe their hands are tied, but in reality, this is something that the Columbia administration and trustees are watching happen with satisfaction.