Advocates Applaud as Pro-Palestinian Commentator Sami Hamdi Released by ICE

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Advocates Applaud as Pro-Palestinian Commentator Sami Hamdi Released by ICE

“Sami never should have spent a single night in an ICE cell,” said one advocate. “His only real ‘offense’ was speaking clearly about Israel’s genocidal war crimes against Palestinians.”

JULIA CONLEY
Nov 11, 2025

A leading Muslim civil rights group in the US applauded Monday as the Trump administration’s agreement to release British pro-Palestinian commentator Sami Hamdi acknowledged that he is not “a danger to the community or to national security,” after he was held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention for more than two weeks.

Hamdi’s family and the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been representing the journalist, expressed relief at the news that he had accepted an offer to leave the US voluntarily.

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As Prem Thakker reported at Zeteo News, two “unelected, far-right, Islamophobic figures,” Laura Loomer and Amy Mekelburg, took credit for “investigating” Hamdi. Mekelburg published a report that called on the US to deport Hamdi and prohibit him from entering the country, claiming he was “training US Muslims in digital agitation, electoral sabotage, and political warfare in alignment with Muslim Brotherhood doctrine.”

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CAIR-CA emphasized Monday that in Hamdi’s immigration charging documents, the US government alleged only a visa overstay “and never identified any criminal conduct or security grounds.”

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