Protesters Take Over Trump Tower to Demand Release of Mahmoud Khalil
The NYPD arrested protesters demanding the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.

Hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers and allies staged a sit-in at Trump Tower in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestine activist and recent Columbia University graduate who was kidnapped by ICE agents last Saturday night.
Over 300 protesters, many of them affiliated with anti-Zionist organizing group Jewish Voice for Peace, took over the tower around 11:30 a.m. They chanted, âWe want justice. You say, how? Bring Mahmoud home now!â and âFight Nazis, not students.â About 100 protesters were arrested, according to NBC News.
âMy grandmother lost her cousins in the Holocaust. I grew up on these stories. We know what happens when authoritarian regimes begin targeting people, begin abducting them at night, separating their families and scapegoating,â JVP spokesperson Sonya Meyerson-Knox told NBC. âAnd we know that itâs one step from here to losing all right to protest and then further horrors happening, as we have seen too well in our history. Weâre calling on everyone to speak up today because otherwise we wonât be able to tomorrow.â
BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting âWe want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!â and âFight Nazis, not students.â
â Talia Jane â¤ď¸âđĽ (@taliaotg) March 13, 2025
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil. pic.twitter.com/eQLLfhrfmU
BREAKING: Jewish Voice for Peace is leading a sit-in in the lobby of Trump tower to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil. pic.twitter.com/8ZgZkeZdIp
â BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) March 13, 2025
BREAKING: Jewish American activists have taken over the lobby of Trump Tower in New York to demand the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who faces deportation for protesting Israelâs war on Gaza. pic.twitter.com/2tHexHSSwp
â Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) March 13, 2025