Mahmoud Kahlil, a Columbia University student who protested Israel’s war in Gaza, sued to block the turnover of disciplinary records to a U.S. House committee.

Dozens of students gathered at the University of Texas at Dallas on Thursday to protest the arrest and potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil – a Columbia University graduate who organized protests last year over the war in Gaza.

When protests over the Israel-Hamas war took root on Columbia University’s campus last spring, Mahmoud Khalil became a familiar, outspoken figure in a student movement that soon spread to other U.S. c