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‘Who Killed Alex Odeh?’ Review: A Modest True Crime Doc Where the Answers Are Out in the Open
Culturevariety1mo ago

‘Who Killed Alex Odeh?’ Review: A Modest True Crime Doc Where the Answers Are Out in the Open

A film of deceptive simplicity, Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans’s investigative documentary “Who Killed Alex Odeh?” often struggles against its own straightforward style, but in the process, embodies the helplessness of its grieving subjects. Its focus is the 1985 assassination of a Palestinian activist in California, the specifics of which it lays out through […]

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia released from ICE custody after a year
PoliticsBBCThe GuardianAl Jazeera+1The Independent1mo ago4 sources

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia released from ICE custody after a year

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, 33, has been released from an ICE detention facility in Texas after being held for over a year, with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani reportedly appealing for her release. Kordia was arrested at a pro-Palestine protest and held despite court rulings for her release.

US judge blocks deportation of Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi
PoliticsThe GuardianAl Jazeera1mo ago2 sources

US judge blocks deportation of Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi

Mahdawi, arrested last year during US citizenship interview, says he is ‘grateful to the court for honoring the rule of law’ An immigration judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested by federal agents last year during a US citizenship interview in Vermont. Lawyers for Mahdawi gave details of the decision in a court filing on Tuesday with a federal appeals court in New York, which had been reviewing a ruling that led to his release from immigration custody in April. Continue reading...