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https://nypost.com/2025/03/09/us-news/ice-arrests-palestinian-leader-of- columbias-anti-israel-protests-lawyer/
President Trump is giving this anti-Israel campus rabble-rouser a ticket
to study abroad — for good.
A Palestinian activist who led a coalition of twisted radicals seeking the “total eradication of Western Civilization” responsible for riotous
protests at Columbia University and Barnard College has been arrested by
ICE agents, according to his lawyer.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest leader Mahmoud Khalil, who completed
his graduate studies at Ivy League Columbia in December, also potentially
faces having his visa revoked and his green card canceled following
President Trump’s crackdown on unrest at colleges, attorney Amy Greer said Sunday.
He was inside his university-owned apartment a few blocks from campus
Saturday night when ICE agents entered the residence and took him into
custody, Greer said.
Despite graduating months ago, Khalil, who earned his undergraduate degree
in Beirut, still lived in school-provided housing due to a policy allowing students to remain on campus after graduating, a source told The Post.
He has remained active in recent disruptive protests, including last
week’s takeover of the Milstein Library at Barnard College. Videos and photographs posted on X depict him holding a bullhorn near the library
entrance and engaged in discussion with school administrators.
That protest featured violent propaganda flyers that purportedly came
directly from the “Hamas Media Office,” including one pamphlet titled “Our Narrative… Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” which justified the Oct. 7, 2023
attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people — and in which women were
repeatedly raped, whole families were executed and 251 hostages were taken
to the Gaza Strip.
Others at the Barnard library takeover passed around trading card-like
photos of notorious Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by
an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon last September.
Ari Shrage, head of Columbia’s Jewish Alumni Association, told The Post he
was dismayed and concerned to see the literature that was being
distributed.
“These protesters were handing out materials from terrorist organizations
Hamas and Hezbollah. Every American citizen should be concerned when
students are encouraging terrorist activities on US soil regardless of
their nationality.”
In recent weeks, Barnard College was the site of campus building takeovers
for two consecutive weeks to protest the expulsion of a pair of students
who barged into a Columbia class on modern Israel in January and tossed
around pro-Hamas flyers.
One of the documents depicted an Israeli flag in flames and another showed
an army boot stomping a Star of David.
In response to the administrators kicking the perpetrators off campus,
dozens of masked protesters stormed Barnard’s historic Milbank Hall, the
oldest building on campus, on Feb. 26, egged on by pro-Intifada group
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine.
A school security guard was assaulted as the violent mob forced its way
inside, where protesters graffitied political messages ilke “free
Palestine” and “Barnard expels students.”
A week later on March 5, around 200 demonstrators seized the academic
nerve center of the elite private women’s college, Milstein Library, where
they hung an Old West-style “Wanted” poster featuring Dean of Students
Leslie Grinage and a shoddy effigy of Barnard President Laura Rosenbury.
The NYPD evacuated the building after a bogus bomb threat and arrested
nine students from nearby schools — many of them privileged youths — who refused lawful orders to disperse.
As agents raided Khalil’s apartment, Columbia put out a statement
addressing the presence of agents in the vicinity of the campus, and
stated its intention not to cooperate with ICE’s actions except where
required by law.
“Consistent with our longstanding practice and the practice of cities and institutions throughout the country, law enforcement must have a judicial warrant to enter non-public university areas, including university
buildings,” the statement read in part.
“Columbia is committed to complying with all legal obligations and
supporting our student body and campus community.”
Soon after his detention, Khalil’s supporters issued a press release
calling the arrest “a racist targeting” which “serves to instill fear in pro-Palestine activists as well as a warning to others.”
A petition demanding Khalil’s immediate release posted on Action Network garnered more than 349,000 signatures by Sunday evening.
Last September, Khalil and Columbia United Apartheid Divest, which has
vowed to escalate its tactics “until the empire crumbles,” were among
those taking part in the campus takeover at the start of the school year.
The coalition of 116 student groups at the Ivy League school — who call themselves “Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization” — also led the charge in the violent raid of Columbia’s
Hamilton Hall last April.
Local and state leaders, including Gov. Kathy Hochul condemned the
protests, calling on school officials to enforce disciplinary codes and
impose “swift actions” to punish wrongdoers, a source told The Post at the time.
Khalil told a Post reporter during September’s raucous protests that anti- Israel student organizers were undeterred, and promised to ramp up their actions, including establishing future encampments.
“As long as Columbia continues to invest and to benefit from Israeli
apartheid, the students will continue to resist,” Khalil said.
“Not only protests and encampments, the limit is the sky.”
Last April, during the height of the encampment protests, Khalil told the Columbia Daily Spectator that he was not personally participating in the protests over concerns he would lose his student visa — which allowed him
to remain in the US.
He was briefly suspended that month, but the suspension was reversed the
very next day, he told BBC at the time.
“[They said] that after reviewing the evidence, they don’t have any
evidence to suspend,” he said.
Khymani James, 20, a prominent spokesperson for the Hamas-cheering radical collective led by Khalil, was banned from campus in the wake of the April protests after a video surfaced of them expressing violent and hateful
rhetoric towards Jews.
“The same way we are very comfortable accepting Nazis don’t deserve to
live, fascists don’t deserve to live, racists don’t deserve to live,
Zionists, they shouldn’t live in this world,” said James.
James later offered a tepid apology, but laid the blame at the foot of “right-wing agitators,” claiming they were targeted for being “visibly
queer and black.”
Last spring’s encampment continued to expand until April 18, when Columbia president Minouche Shafik — who soon after resigned under pressure —
finally called on the NYPD to enter the campus and break it up after
protesters ignored warnings to leave.
Cops arrested 108 participants at Columbia, which sparked a movement of solidarity protests of similar encampments at university campuses across
the country.
An ICE agent reportedly told Khalil’s lawyer Greer the agency was
enforcing a State Department edict to revoke Khalil’s student visa as well
as his green card, pursuant to President Trump’s recent pledge to deport foreign student “agitators” responsible for fomenting campus unrest.
The news comes just days after Trump announced plans to yank about $400
million in federal grants and contracts from Columbia due to its
noncompliance with anti-discrimination laws.
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