US EditionMahmoud Khalil Pushes Back on Claims of Antisemitism at Columbia in Ezra Klein Interview
UNITED STATES, AUG 5 – Mahmoud Khalil defends the Hamas attack as a tactic to highlight Gaza's suffering and political exclusion, despite condemning civilian targeting, amid his detention and deportation fight.
- Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student and pro-Palestinian protest leader, was arrested on March 10, 2024, at Columbia University for allegedly fueling antisemitism on campus.
- His arrest followed heightened tensions after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, deadly attack on Israel, which Khalil described as a desperate attempt to break the cycle of Palestinians not being heard amid a lack of political process.
- In a June 2024 interview with Ezra Klein, Khalil denied significant antisemitism at Columbia, calling concerns about it a manufactured hysteria linked to pro-Palestinian protests and right-wing threats on campus.
- Khalil condemned targeting civilians as wrong, said Hamas’s attack violated international law by targeting civilians but characterized it as inevitable, and expressed empathy for Palestinians’ long suffering dispossession and siege conditions.
- Khalil’s arrest has implications for U.S. visa policies amid Secretary Rubio’s memo justifying visa revocations for campus activism supporting Hamas, while Khalil’s immigration and civil cases continue through the courts.
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Mahmoud Khalil defends Columbia protests, downplays antisemitism
In an interview with Ezra Klein, campus protest leader Mahmoud Khalil dismisses concerns over antisemitism, calling them a 'manufactured hysteria' while explaining his interpretation of Hamas' October 7th massacre in Israel.
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Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil claims Oct. 7 terror attack was ‘desperate attempt’ for Gaza to be heard
Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil rationalized Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack in a new interview with The New York Times posted on Tuesday.Appearing on the Times' podcast, "The Ezra Klein Show," the Columbia University graduate student said that though he thinks the Hamas attack that killed more than 1,200 people in Israel in late 2023 was wrong, he saw it as a desperate attempt to make sure the world knew the plight of Gazans at the hands of Isr…
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