The families of the Israeli hostages are sued the organizers of Mahmud Khalil and other Columbia University for allegedly prosecuting Hamas’s “promotional hand” in the campus.
The case filed in the southern district of New York on Monday, Khalil, a former graduate student from Columbia, who was a spokesman for Gaza solidarity, as well as Nerdin Kiswani as well as the co-founder and president of our lifetime. Maryam Alwan, a representative for Columbia students for justice in Palestine; And Cameron Jones, a representative to the Colombia-Barnard Jewish voice for peace.
“In this case, Defendants are promoting Hamas in New York City and in Columbia University campus,” says the case. “We know this because they advertise themselves in this way. Their self-known acts in advancing their goals to help Hamas involve terrorizing and attacking Jewish students, illegally damaging public property and university property in the premises of Colombia and attacking employees of Columbia University.”
The complaint stated that the defendants “worked behind the scarf and wanted to be individually anonymous, yet want to intimidate as a group.”
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In Manhattan, on March 18, 2025, demanding the release of Mahmud Khalil, a alumnus of Columbia in New York City. (Mustafa Basim/Anadolu Getty Image)
Says suit, “This case will pull those scarves and will unveil the acts that violate the antitherorism laws of this country.” “This case will finally hold these recruited terrorists accountable to their actions. It is time for American complexes to become a center to learn and save from tireless occupation by the tragic misleading colleagues of Hamas.”
The plaintiff is Hamas’s “heinous and sufferers of international terrorism, which began on October 7, 2023, the most deadly day for Jewish people since Holocost,” Complaint Note.
These include six relatives of hostages who live in Gaza. The hostages were freed or rescued, including the silt of Israel-Americans and Iris Venstein Haggai, daughter of Judy Haggai. Three American Israeli defense forces soldiers have also been nominated as a plaintiff.
Professor Anat Alone-Bake, a law professor working with the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC), said that the lawsuit highlights the matter of national security.
“While the US cherishes a free expression, it unequally condemns violence. The irony is that, who will silence such support under Hamas’s oppressive rule, portray the opposite between our nutritious freedom and their cruel atrocities,” he said in a statement.

A Palestinian-American worker and a co-founder and president within our lifetime, Nerdin Kiswani, participates in an anti-Israeli rally outside the Trump Building on Wall Street on March 19, 2025. (Through Selkuk Akar/Anadolu Getty Image)
The video shows the arrest of anti -Colombia Israel Ringalder Mahmood Khalil
“This case rarely gives voice to the facts to the Hetofore. Students for justice in JVP, Wole, Cude, Palestine collective, and student leaders in campuses across the country are serving as Hamas tools, a foreign terrorist organization that hates the United States and has claimed in-the-end state protesters,” Enjacked Ek-Educators claimed “Enjacked Ek Adhrik. “The leadership of these campus protesters is deliberately associated with those who appreciate physical, emotional or economic losses in any form that can be provoked on citizens of a Western democracy.”

On March 19, 2025, hundreds of anti -Israel protesters gathered in front of Donald Trump’s Wall Street Building to protest in New York. (Through Selkuk Akar/Anadolu Getty Image)
NJAC CEO Mark Goldfeder said, “Advocate and even the right to campaign is considered roughly in the US, in college complexes and in a huge array in the US.” “However, it is not unfit and of course does not include acts of violence, barbarity, physical threats, overlapping and university rules that students ensure safety. Nor does it support the provision of physical support for terror.”
Aryel f. Cleppach, a former federal prosecutor and senior NJAC’s senior litigation lawyer said, “This is the first-kind case to make the Hawk directly responsible for the last and one and a half, to make the Hawk directly responsible for the responsible institutions and individuals. In the form of Columbia Alumna, open and undogant support for terrorism is open and undogant support.”
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“Those responsible will now start facing the results for their tasks,” Clapch said.