Washington (Quds News Network)- A Palestinian-American student at Emory University has been suspended for an interview she gave in 2024 during the Gaza encampment, in which she revealed that a professor from the medical faculty had returned after volunteering as a medic for the Israeli forces. 28-year-old Umaymah Mohammad gave an interview to Democracy Now! during the student encampment for Gaza at Emory University in 2024. According to a Monday report in The Guardian, Mohammad - who is obtaining a sociology PhD and a medical degree at the same time - was suspended seven months later. In that interview, she referred to, but did not name, a professor among the medical faculty who had returned from being a volunteer medic for the Israeli forces, questioning how the university can reconcile the professor’s academic position with his role in an army that had killed tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza. Mohammad said the professor “participated in aiding and abetting a genocide, in aiding and abetting the destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza and the murder of over 400 healthcare workers, and is now back at Emory so-called ‘teaching’ medical students and residents how to take care of patients.” According to The Guardian, the professor filed a complaint, claiming he did not feel safe, and demanded that the university investigate Mohammad. In April, Emory had already made headlines around the country for its swift and violent crackdown on pro-Palestine student protests, with police using stun guns, tear gas grenades, and rubber bullets on campus. In July, the university claimed it found Mohammad had violated the medical school’s code of conduct because she disparaged an individual in her television interview. A number of people interjected, including Ilya Nemenman, the chair of Emory’s committee for open expression, and George Shepherd, a law professor and president of Emory’s faculty senate. But an associate dean at Emory insisted that Mohammad either accept the investigation's results and face the consequences or attend a hearing in November. That event was “one of the most dehumanizing two hours of my life,” Mohammad told The Guardian. Three people - the professor in question, another dean who also complained about her, and the professor's faculty advisor - all demanded that Mohammad never be allowed to practise medicine. The advisor, in particular, at one point screamed, “Who are you to decide what’s a genocide?” Mohammad recounted to The Guardian. A week later, Mohammad was suspended from Emory's medical school for a year. Mohammad is not the only one facing such action for speaking out about the Palestinian people. This follows a broader campaign by the Trump administration to suppress any pro-Palestine speech. Earlier, Yale University suspended a pro-Palestine Iranian scholar, Helyeh Doutaghi, from its law school after a Jewish news website, which uses AI to generate articles, accused her of being a member of a 'terrorist group.’ Doutaghi said she is a “loud and proud” supporter of Palestinian rights. Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and post-doctoral fellow working at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, was detained by US customs agents, accusing him of "actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media". The US administration intends to deport him after labeling him as a threat to U.S. foreign policy due to his and his wife’s support for Palestinian rights. Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist, green card holder and recent graduate of Columbia University, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from his apartment in New York City and denied protection by university administrators over his pro-Palestine activism at campus. The Trump administration is seeking to deport him. In a post on Truth Social, US President Donald Trump described the arrest of Khalil as “the first arrest of many to come”. “We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” Trump said. Columbia University also lost $400 million in federal funding after being named on a list of schools accused of failure to address antisemitism. 60 universities could also face funding cuts if federal investigations show evidence that they have permitted antisemitic behavior. As he campaigned for a second term in the White House, Trump pledged to stop the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that erupted after Israel launched its deadly war on Gaza and deport any foreign students involved. Upon taking office, he began to issue executive actions signalling he would carry out his threats. “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” Trump said in a White House fact sheet. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”