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Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University anti-Israel activist whom the Trump administration has targeted for deportation, has become a darling of the left, as people who hate America so often do. The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) claimed recently that Khalil’s arrest “has created a speech-chilling atmosphere of fear,” and charges that “the Trump administration’s actions represent a dangerous escalation of the president’s attempts to choke off the free speech rights of people on American soil.” And on Sunday, Khalil’s wife attempted to blow up the entire case against him, asserting that it was “ridiculous” and “disgusting” to say that Khalil supports Hamas.
This is all-important, because if Khalil is found to be a Hamas supporter, the case against him would be nearly open-and-shut. U.S. Code § 1182 states that “any alien” who is “a representative” of “a political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity” is “inadmissible.” U.S. Code § 1227 adds that such an alien “is deportable.” The Associated Press described Khalil two weeks ago as one of the “student leaders of Columbia University Apartheid Divest” (CUAD). The Washington Post reported last Tuesday that “No one disputes that Khalil was the face of Columbia University Apartheid Divest.”
Khalil was CUAD’s chief negotiator with Columbia administrators. Politico explained: “Khalil was a lead negotiator representing the student protesters to the Columbia administration during the school’s ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ last spring. The student group behind the encampment — Columbia University Apartheid Divest, or CUAD — had two main demands: that Columbia cut all its ties to Israel, including divesting and halting plans to build a ‘global center’ in Tel Aviv, and that the protesters themselves receive amnesty for their actions.”
However, apparently aware of how damaging that fact is to his case, Khalil himself disputes this. The BBC framed Khalil’s connection to CUAD as if it were merely something his opponents claimed: “Activists supporting Israel have accused Mr Khalil of being a leader of Columbia University Apartheid Divest (Cuad), a student group that demanded, among other things, the university to divest from its financial ties to Israel and a ceasefire in Gaza. Mr Khalil has denied that he led the group, telling the Associated Press (AP) that he only served as a spokesperson for protesters and as a mediator with the university.”
It’s easy to see why Khalil would want to distance himself from CUAD. In August 2024, it posted this on Instagram, then removed it once it started getting appalled notice from saner quarters: “We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” During the anti-Israel protests at Columbia, the demonstrators screamed “Death to America.”
And as for Hamas, Fox News reported that “On October 9, 2024, The New York Times reported CUAD marked the anniversary of Hamas slaughtering over 1,200 Israeli civilians by distributing a newspaper with a headline that used Hamas’s name for the mass murder: ‘One Year Since Al-Aqsa Flood, Revolution Until Victory.’ The group posted an essay calling the attack a ‘moral, military and political victory’ and quoting Ismail Haniyeh, the assassinated former political leader of Hamas.”
If that isn’t support for Hamas, what is? And so the Trump administration is trying to deport Khalil, as a leader of CUAD, for being a representative of a group that espouses terror activity. Unless Khalil can successfully distance himself from CUAD or from its support for Hamas, which seems unlikely, he will be deported, no matter how many lawyers moneyed leftists hire for him.
That’s why Khalil’s wife, Noor Abdalla, is now saying: “I think it’s ridiculous. It’s disgusting … that that’s the tactic that they’re using to make him look like this person that he’s not, literally.” What’s really ridiculous is that despite the abundance of evidence linking Khalil to CUAD and CUAD to support for Hamas, there will still be leftists who fall for this.
If his case drags on for long enough, Mahmoud Khalil has a shot at becoming the new Alger Hiss. Hiss was a Communist spy in FDR’s State Department, and even Secretary-General of the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization, where the UN’s Charter was drafted. In 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a fellow spy who had a change of heart, named Hiss as one of the Communist spies with whom he had worked. Hiss was ultimately convicted of perjury (the statute of limitations on espionage charges had run out), but leftists stoutly maintained his innocence right up until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. After that, Soviet files confirmed that he had been one of their boys all along.
Mahmoud Khalil’s hatred for America is easier to establish. That’s why leftists love him so much. They love antisemites, too, as “Antisemitism: History and Myth” explains. And if Noor Abdalla’s gambit succeeds, they’ll be able to shed tears over his persecution at the hands of Trump for years to come.
There is no negotiating with genocidal Islamic fanatics. This reprobate was sent purposefully to coordinate protests with Hamas attack on October 7th. He arrived in the uS soon before that date.
That is not a coincidence.
If he feels the need to be actively protesting against American actions then why did he want to go live there?
Exactly. He already graduated but continues to live in Columbia’s student housing. Deport him and his wife to Syria. Send them by ship since she is very pregnant and probably cannot fly. Should have flown them to Damascus long ago.
Let that terrorist pig give birth at sea on the way home to the middle east where such creatures belong. Her husband is an out, and out terrorist,and deserves hanging, but at least send him “home” to that middle east hell.
He wanted to live here because it’s easier and more effective to kill the “Great Satan” from within. People, even leftists, despite their claims to the contrary, automatically associate Hamas with terrorism. Not many considered foreign exchange students at Ivy League Universities as a threat before Khalil. That sentiment began to change last year when college students kidnapped Columbia staff, held hostage several Jewish students in a library the Jews had to barricade to keep violent antisemitic rioters out for their physical safety at one campus and harassed and threatened Jewish students until the Columbia faculty had to make lectures online all for an “education” costing upwards of $80,000 a year. That’s not protesting or free speech. That’s a violent riot making J6 look like a 60’s “love-in.”
He was planted in the U.S.A. to disrupt, terrorize, create angry events, and any other disruption of American society he can create. He is and agent of the Mullahs.
It’s always the same. These arrogant Muslim protesters come here under false pretenses to exploit OUR Rights as US Citizens, to which they, as foreign students, are clearly NOT entitled. Then after causing mayhem and fear on campus, they spit in our faces and lie thru their teeth to create an International incident as is required by the Koran; to lie to Infidels and promote Islam in any way necessary. Rinse and Repeat.. Surely at least half the staff at Columbia knows this very well. As does our Govt ! End this nonsense, deport that 31 year old “student” and stop embarrassing the United States!
Honestly, should one care what Mahmoud’s wife has to say? That said, Americans will get to hear her speak out at Mahmoud’s trial, paid for by the American taxpayer.
The longer he and his wife are here the more likely it is that Americans will have to pay for the birth of their child ( Anchor Baby? ) in addition to Legal Expenses and once again the US Taxpayer is screwed by Leftist stupidity….
The leftist elites must think all Americans are as stupid as their mindless minions. If you’re here on a visa and you cause problems then you go home.
Khalil’s wife, Noor Abdalla. What a creature. That thing next to her is scary, too.
Why do they always look like that? I know a traitorous skank has to be ugly to marry a Paleosimian terrorist but God help my eyes. Could she hate herself just a little bit more? I know I hate her. It should be a crime to be that ugly.
They probably don’t realize they are hurting their own case 🙂
Trumps reelection is proof the American People don’t trust the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders anymore from CNN and the NYT’s