Articles

  • 1 week ago | prismreports.org | Neha Madhira

    Over the last few months, the Trump administration has been rounding up pro-Palestine students who it claims support terrorism, despite a lack of evidence to back up these assertions. A Zionist advocacy group, Betar US, has claimed to be helping identify anti-genocide protesters for Trump officials and local law enforcement to target. The group’s former executive director detailed that process to Prism in a wide-ranging interview.

  • 2 months ago | prismreports.org | Neha Madhira

    Half a dozen masked federal immigration agents in plainclothes ambushed a Tufts University international student from Turkey on March 25, according to a dramatic video shared by pro-Palestine and immigrant rights advocates. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Fulbright scholar and Ph.D. graduate worker, had just left her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on her way to an iftar with friends, when the group of agents surrounded her and grabbed her phone as she screamed.

  • 2 months ago | prismreports.org | Neha Madhira

    After former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was detained in a Louisiana Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on March 8, President Donald Trump vowed that his arrest would be the first of “many to come.” Khalil is a Palestinian-Syrian permanent U.S. resident and recent Columbia graduate who was active in last year’s Gaza encampment protests.

  • Jan 27, 2025 | prismreports.org | Neha Madhira

    Israeli authorities told 11 U.S.-based physicians and nurses on a medical mission in Gaza that they may leave the Gaza Strip on Jan. 28, after initially preventing them from leaving last week, the medical workers told Prism. On Monday, they began making their way from northern Gaza to the south. The team, whose medical workers are from California, Texas, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, and Arizona, served in Gaza from Jan. 9 to 23 through the international humanitarian organization Rahma Worldwide.

  • Jan 22, 2025 | prismreports.org | Neha Madhira

    After more than a year of unrelenting bombardment on Gaza by Israeli forces, a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel went into effect on Jan. 19. However, tensions remain high, especially among Palestinian Americans and advocacy groups, as the first part of the negotiation, which includes a halt in all fighting, was broken Jan. 20 when an Israeli sniper killed a 15-year-old returning home in Rafah.