{"id":17626,"date":"2025-03-20T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=17626"},"modified":"2025-03-20T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:59:50","slug":"trump-administration-detains-researcher-linked-to-pro-palestinian-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/trump-administration-detains-researcher-linked-to-pro-palestinian-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Detains Researcher Linked to Pro-Palestinian Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American government detained the researcher, who is connected to the pro-Palestinian movement, and is working to expel him, claiming he poses a threat to U.S. foreign policy. This was reported yesterday (Wednesday) by the student&#8217;s attorney to the <em>Reuters News Agency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security attributes ties between the researcher, Bar Khan Suri, and the terrorist organization Hamas, as well as the dissemination of anti-Semitic propaganda and content associated with Hamas on social media.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_17628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17628\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/don-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/don-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/don-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/don-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian protests in New York | Photo: Amir Levy\/Flash90<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFederal agents arrested the researcher outside his home in Roslyn, Virginia on Monday night, and he is currently awaiting a hearing in immigration court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Administration Is Following Through on Its Threats<\/strong><br \/>\nThis action follows the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student who served as a student representative in negotiations with the administration of Columbia University, and was arrested by U.S. federal Immigration Authorities about two weeks ago. Khalil, who played a central role in the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus last year, was arrested in the university dormitory in Manhattan by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump stated at the time that Khalil&#8217;s arrest is just the first of many. &#8220;If you support terrorism, including the slaughter of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our foreign policy and security interests, and you are unwelcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marco Rubio, serving as Secretary of State in Donald Trump&#8217;s administration, tweeted on platform<em> X:<\/em> &#8220;We will revoke the visas and green cards of Hamas supporters in America so that they can be deported.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/114139222625284782\/embed\" class=\"truthsocial-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/embed.js\" async=\"async\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We will be revoking the visas and\/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oKba2Mmi3C\">https:\/\/t.co\/oKba2Mmi3C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1898858967532441945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has detained an Indian researcher studying at Georgetown University in Washington and is moving to deport him, citing his involvement in pro-Palestinian riots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":17627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,6,65],"tags":[2942,1477,3426,2663,2688,3425,2396],"class_list":["post-17626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-security","category-world","tag-columbia-university","tag-hamas","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-marco-rubio","tag-trump-administration","tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Administration Detains Researcher Linked to Pro-Palestinian Activities - REGA news<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Administration Detains Researcher Linked to Pro-Palestinian Activities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Trump administration has detained an Indian researcher studying at Georgetown University in Washington and is moving to deport him, citing his involvement in pro-Palestinian riots.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/trump-administration-detains-researcher-linked-to-pro-palestinian-activities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"REGA news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-20T09:59:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/don.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1365\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"By Hadas Amram\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"By Hadas Amram\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/trump-administration-detains-researcher-linked-to-pro-palestinian-activities\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/trump-administration-detains-researcher-linked-to-pro-palestinian-activities\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"By Hadas Amram\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/5d85ecad8545112cda9d3c67059a9c53\"},\"headline\":\"Trump Administration Detains Researcher Linked to Pro-Palestinian Activities\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-20T09:59:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/trump-administration-detains-researcher-linked-to-pro-palestinian-activities\/\"},\"wordCount\":320,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/trump-administration-detains-researcher-linked-to-pro-palestinian-activities\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/don.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Columbia University\",\"Hamas\",\"Immigration and Customs Enforcement\",\"Marco Rubio\",\"Trump Administration\",\"U.s. 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