Who was arrested Mahmoud Khalil, activist of Anti-Israel Columbia University of Columbia?
President Donald Trump They announced on Monday that US immigration agents and customs implementation (ICE) were arrested by Anti-Israeli activist Mahmoud Khalil-I warned that other “terrorist sympathizers” would fulfill a similar fate.
ICE agents arrested Khalila-Koji Palestinian, grew up in Syria and a permanent American resident of his apartment owned by the University on the Upper West Side on Saturday and told him to revoke his green ticket and a student visa, according to Khalil’s lawyer, Amy Greer.
The Ministry of Homeland Security in X’s Posting was said to have conducted an arrest to protect US national security and claim that Khalil “led the activities aligned with Hamas, a particular terrorist organization.”
Khalil played a The main role in protests against Israel At the University of Columbia and met with university officials on behalf of the University of Columbia Apartheid Divist, a group of student groups who begged the University to subtract from Israel, CNN said.
Anti-Israeli activist’s ice arrest agent who has led protests at Columbia University for months
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that US immigration agents and customs implementation (ICE) had arrested Anti-Israeli activist Mahmoud Khalila-I warned that other “terrorist sympathizers” would fill in similar fate. (Peter Gerber)
The main goal is to “challenge the violence in immigrants that Israel starts with the support of the United States and its allies,” according to the OP-ed, published in Columbia Spectator in November 2023.
“We reject the weapon of the Immigration Agency and the Customs implementation of the United States for the Laws on Rasic Immigration Laws on Rasic Immigration of the United States to prevent our international comrades and peers to speak,” the group wrote. “We reject the violence of the Israeli defense forces of the trained police complex that chokes our community and disproportionately brings brutality against color people.”
Khalil’s LinkedIn Profile says he studied IT sciences at the Lebanese American University of Beirut before he began his master’s degree in Columbia in public administration in January 2023. His profile says he graduated in December 2024, although Columbia media issues will not confirm Khalil’s status at Digital University.
The second work experience stated on Khalil’s LinkedIn profile includes the completion of the internship with the Assistance and Working Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which helps Palestinian refugees and descendants.
UNRWA faced supervision after the UN investigation found that UNRWA employees may have been involved in the attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023. Now they temporarily stopped funds for UNRWA in January 2024. In response to a report.
The Ministry of Homeland Security, the Ministry of Justice and State Department is investigating Khalil as a possible threat of national security, according to the White House officials. So far, the investigation has discovered “anti -Semitic and hatred” posts on Khalil’s social media and found that he has organized more anti -Semitic protests at Columbia Campus, according to officials.
Nevertheless, Khalil previously made public statements, supporting the liberation of both Palestinian and Jewish people, and spoke against anti -Semitism.
“Of course, there is no room for anti-Semitism,” Khalil said to CNN in April 2024. “What we witness about is the anti-Palestinian mood that take on different forms, and anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism (are) some of these forms.”
Trump discovered the arrest of Khalil on Monday, and State Secretary Marco Rubio said the administration would take away the green tickets of all Hamas supporters in the US -Ii deport them.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said those who support Hamas will take away their green cards and face the deportation. (Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press)
“Following my previously signed executive commands, Ice proudly arrested and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a radical foreign student of Pro-Ham on the Campus Campus of Columbia,” Trump on Truth Social announced on Monday. “This is the first arrest of many to come.”
“We will find, capture and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country – not to return again,” Trump said. “If you support terrorism, including the slaughter of innocent men, women and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests and you are not welcome here.”
In response, Democrats on the Senate Committee on the judiciary marked the move “direct authoritarianism” in the post on X.
In addition, Rev. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., He led a letter to the Minister of Homeland Security Christ Noem Urging Trump’s administration to immediately let go of Khalil. Tlaib is the first Palestinian -American woman to serve in Congress.
“Khalil is not charged or convicted of any crime,” Togiib and other democratic laws wrote in a letter published on Tuesday. “We have to be extremely clear: this is an attempt to criminalize a political protest and is a direct attack on the freedom of speech of all in this country.”
In the meantime, the secretary of the Karolina Leavitt White House defended the decision of Trump’s administration to arrest Khalil and claims to have shared a propaganda flyer in the campus.
“This administration will not tolerate individuals who have the privilege of studying in our country and then fighting the pro-territorial organizations that killed Americans,” Leavitt told reporters at a printing house in the White House, noting that on her table “Pri-Hamas propaganda was flying with a logo.” “We have zero tolerance policies for the side part of the terrorist.”
Khalil played a big role in protests against Israel at Columbia University, and met with university officials on behalf of Apartheid University Columbia Divist, a group of student groups who prayed university to deprive Israel. (Stephanie Keith for Fox News Digital)
She also defended Rubi’s right to recall Khalil’s green card.
“According to the Law on Immigration and Citizenship, the Secretary of State has the right to revoke a green card or visa for individuals who serve or are opponent’s interests for foreign policy and national security of the United States of America,” Leavitt said on Tuesday.
Khalil is held in custody in the central Louisiana. However, the New York federal judge blocked Trump’s administration to deport him while the legal procedure remains active.
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District judge Jesse Furman from the US District Court for Southern District of New York is scheduled for hearing a Khalil case on Wednesday. His lawyers filed prop Khalil’s wife is currently eight months pregnant, his lawyer states.
“We will follow Mahmoud’s rights strongly in court and we will continue our efforts to correct this terribly and unforgivable – and calculated – wrongly committed against him,” Greer said.
Fox News’ Alexis McAdams and Stephany Price contributed to this report.
