The disappeared Columbia student is the start of a surveillance nightmare

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a former Columbia University student over his involvement in the pro-Palestine protests that swept the campus over the past year, even though he has a green card and was never charged with a crime. Columbia, the site of a monthslong pro-Palestine encampment, became a particular obsession for right-wingers and liberal Zionists alike, who accused the university of turning a blind eye to campus antisemitism even as it sent the New York Police Department to arrest its own students. This latest…