NEW YORK — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi strode across the graduation stage at Columbia University on Monday morning ...

Mohsen Mahdawi, center, holds a photo of Mahmoud Khalil while posing for a photo with demonstrators outside the gates of Columbia University after graduating, Monday, May 19, 2025, in New York.

Freed from ICE custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers By JAKE OFFENHARTZ The Associated Press,Updated May 19, 2025, 3:41 p.m.

A spokesperson for Columbia University did not return an emailed inquiry. Mahdawi was born in a refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and moved to the United States in 2014.

Mohsen Mahdawi, center, holds a photo of Mahmoud Khalil while posing for a photo with demonstrators outside the gates of Columbia University after graduating, Monday, May 19, 2025, in New York.

Mohsen Mahdawi, center, holds a photo of Mahmoud Khalil while posing for a photo with demonstrators outside the gates of Columbia University after graduating, Monday, May 19, 2025, in New York.

A spokesperson for Columbia University did not return an emailed inquiry. Mahdawi was born in a refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and moved to the United States in 2014.

A spokesperson for Columbia University did not return an emailed inquiry. Mahdawi was born in a refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and moved to the United States in 2014.