Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. student who had been suspended by the university after participating in pro-Palestinian protests, said he “took the decision to leave the United States.”

Cornell University doctoral candidate Momodou Taal has chosen to leave the US after a judge declined to immediately block his deportation.

Momodou Taal, a Cornell University PhD student who faced deportation over Palestine protests, leaves U.S. after Trump admin revoked his student visa.

Momodou Taal, a student activist at Cornell University, has chosen to voluntarily leave the United States after his student visa was revoked.

Momodou Taal, a Cornell University doctoral student in Africana Studies and a dual citizen of the UK and The Gambia, had his US student visa revoked due to his participation in pro-Palestinian protests.

Momodou Taal, the Cornell University graduate student who said his institution effectively tried to deport him in the fall over his pro-Palestine activism, announced Monday he's leaving the U.S. of his own accord under threat from the Trump administration.

A Cornell University student facing deportation after his visa was revoked because of his campus activism said he decided to leave the United States.

Taal’s case is part of a broader system of state terror now unfolding in the United States. Dissent is being criminalized and the legal architecture of dictatorship is being constructed.

Momodou Taal praised the "student intifada," derided concerns for the safety of Zionist students and called on his supporters to "escalate for Palestine."