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The Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil

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    Do us all a favor and go back there permanently since you don't enjoy basic US rights like due process. Pretty sure you're full of bullshit though, you go back to the motherland your illegal ass and extended family isn't coming back.
     
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    Your gang banger/criminal isn't coming back either.
     
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    Are you worried that a future administration will target all pedophiles and you might get sent to El Salvador due to it?
     
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    You're pro anchor baby? Interesting...
     
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    Sometimes all you want is a pizza at Comet Pizza without being shot
     
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    He can stay at The White Lotus Palestine...
     
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    @raining threes No answer, eh? As long as they vote Republican I'm guessing you don't have a problem with it.
     
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    To be clear I'm against birth right citizenship. It was great in theory but the system has been abused. In this case the baby and mother can stay, nobody will be forcing them to leave the country.
     
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    link will work for everyone

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/questio...2?st=WPxhWM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    Questions for Mahmoud Khalil
    After his detention, the Columbia protester is on a media tour to boost his image—but won’t condemn Hamas.
    By Tal Fortgang
    July 28, 2025 5:44 pm ET

    Columbia University graduate and anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil has been on a public-relations tour after his brief detention while the U.S. government seeks to deport him. He now seems intent on rehabilitating his image. The press shouldn’t let him get away with it.

    The U.S. government wants to deport him over what the State Department calls antisemitic conduct, including his alleged leadership of the terror-sympathizing group Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Mr. Khalil denies that he led the group, which, in addition to organizing acts of trespassing and property damage in and around the Morningside Heights neighborhood, has espoused support for terrorism.

    An immigration judge in May ruled the Algerian citizen removable due to the State Department’s assessment that he poses a threat to the U.S. foreign-policy goal of combating antisemitism. But Mr. Khalil appealed, and a federal judge in New Jersey ordered his release in June while his case proceeds, saying he isn’t an immediate threat. Since then, he has returned to anti-Israel activism and hit the media circuit.

    Shortly after meeting with Democratic lawmakers last week, smiling for pictures with Sen. Bernie Sanders and others, Mr. Khalil appeared on CNN, portraying himself as an antiwar activist who just wants an end to the conflict in Gaza. “I simply . . . protested the war in Palestine,” he said. That’s an understandable strategy. If Mr. Khalil can show he is a peace activist, rather than a lawbreaking terrorist sympathizer, perhaps he can convince whoever is listening that the Trump administration is going after him for routine political speech. More broadly, Mr. Khalil and his advisers likely figure that he has a chance to reframe the entire anti-Israel movement as peaceful protesters victimized by a fanatical right-wing government.

    CNN anchor Pamela Brown provided Mr. Khalil a great opportunity to denounce terrorism and show why he should be allowed to stay in the U.S. “Do you specifically condemn Hamas, a designated terrorist organization?” she asked. Mr. Khalil responded that he condemned the killing of all civilians, but said, “It’s disingenuous to ask about condemning Hamas while Palestinians are the ones being starved now by Israel.” Ms. Brown gave Mr. Khalil multiple opportunities to condemn Hamas, and he repeatedly refused, calling the question “absurd.” The deflection doesn’t indicate outright support for Hamas, but it also doesn’t put to rest concerns that he isn’t the unobjectionable activist he claims.

    If Mr. Khalil continues to appear on TV, interviewers should push past the deflections and force him—and their audiences—to confront the ample evidence supporting Mr. Khalil’s deportation. A few simple questions would do the trick.

    First, was Mr. Khalil a leader of CUAD as prosecutors, journalists and fellow students have alleged? If not, why did he negotiate with Columbia’s administrators on behalf of the group occupying—that is, trespassing in—various Columbia buildings this past winter and spring? If he helped organize trespassing, destruction of property and false imprisonment, his claim of being a peaceful protester falls apart.

    Second, was Mr. Khalil affiliated with CUAD when it posted a message on social media declaring that it was “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization”? If so, did he register any protest within the organization or otherwise try to distance himself from that message? Most people would resign from and denounce a group they once belonged to if it declared that its mission was something they completely opposed. Yet this message—evidence of engaging in an activity whose purpose “is the opposition to . . . or overthrow of, the Government of the United States” by unlawful means, a deportable offense—didn’t seem to bother Mr. Khalil.

    Finally, Mr. Khalil’s interviewers should check out CUAD’s Substack publication and ask a question or two about some of the material there. For instance, was Mr. Khalil part of CUAD when it published its “Tribute to Yahya Sinwar,” the now dead Hamas leader and architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre? Does it disturb him that CUAD wrote, “As members of the collective pursuit of Palestinian freedom, each of us should look to him as a clear illustration of what it means to devote a full lifetime to the intifada,” and, “It’s now the time for us to reflect on how we can make ourselves more like him”? How about its fawning treatment of Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis, both designated foreign terrorist organizations?

    Mr. Khalil, once you saw that your organization was clearly espousing terrorism—another legitimate cause for deportation—why didn’t you quit and distance yourself?

    Mr. Khalil, why should Americans care about anything you say now, as you try to cover your tracks, when we know exactly who you are and what you’re all about?

    Mr. Fortgang is a legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

     

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