Alistair Kitchen

Alistair Kitchen is an Australian journalist and former graduate student at Columbia University who was briefly detained, interrogated, and deported back to Melbourne during a layover at Los Angeles International Airport. During his time at Columbia, Kitchen had extensively reported on the student-run Gaza solidarity encampments and the university administration’s harassment of pro-Palestinian student protesters. In an interview with The Guardian, Kitchen stated that officers “explicitly said to me, the reason you have been detained is because of your writing on the Columbia student protests.”