Mahmoud Khalil’s Support for Terrorism Undermines His Case To Avoid Deportation

One hopes he will be free to express his opinions unfettered in his homeland of Syria or Algeria, where he is a citizen.

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Mahmoud Khalil, second from left, demonstrates during a protest at Columbia University in 2023. AP/Yuki Iwamura

On the same day that Islamic State terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar murdered 15 Americans by plowing a car into a crowd at New Orleans, thousands of Hamas and Hezbollah supporters, many decked out in Islamist garb, descended onto Times Square chanting, “Globalize the intifada.”

One of the organizers of the protest was Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a group often led by Syrian national Mahmoud Khalil.

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