Trump doubles down as he silences critics - "With ICE’s weekend arrest of a student who engaged in peaceful protests, Trump’s administration is flexing dangerously unconstitutional muscle and daring the nation to flinch. Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University, helped to organize several pro-Palestinian student protests last year, all of which were peaceful and non-violent. Khalil was pulled from his apartment by “special agents from a department in ICE” who informed Khalil that the State Department had revoked his student visa... Silencing political opponents presents the steepest of autocratic slopes. If students and citizens lose the right to publicly criticize or disagree with their government, they have lost the right to choose who that government will be...
Sabrina Haake is a 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1 and 14 A defense"
With so much left wing misinformation out there, it's no wonder so many people are duped
It is telling that Trump's "political opponents" are terrorism suporters
An attorney who doesn't even mention section 212(a)(3)(B)(i)(VII) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)(i)(VII)) in the context of this case is either incompetent or malicious where you cannot "endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization"
Thread by @Davidlederer6 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Many have been calling Mahmoud Khalil an anti-war activist. Nothing can be further from the truth. Here he is on 10/7/24 attending a 1 yr anniversary celebration of the “Al Aqsa Flood” (massacre of Jews). He was a leader of this group at Columbia and is a pro Hamas radical. In this photo Mahmoud can be seen instructing the lead marcher on their route shortly before they began marching around campus. He was much more than a mere bystander or participant."
Benjamin Weingarten on X - "I count a whopping 19 attorneys representing Mahmoud Khalil. J6ers could've only dreamed of that volume of legal firepower. Who is paying for this representation? All pro bono to take on the Trump admin as Resistance heroes?"
Stephen L. Miller on X - "His lead attorney is a former Biden WH advisor."
Clearly, this is because his case is so unjust, it motivates everyone to fight against injustice
Kosher🎗🧡 on X - "How does a foreign student at a college that costs $93,000 a year, still manage to afford 19 lawyers that cost $1,000 an hour each?"
Angela Van Der Pluym on X - "Has anyone looked up Mahmoud Khalil’s attorney, Ramzi Kassem? He defends terrorists for a living. Mahmoud’s attorney was not only a “Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans” recipient. (Details The Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation supports new Americans any individual who is a resident alien (i.e., holds a green card), has been naturalized as a US citizen, or is the child of two parents who are both naturalized citizens.) He is a law professor at antisemitic CUNY.
“Kassem argued Tanzin v. Tanvir before the U.S. Supreme Court, a landmark civil rights case challenging the federal government’s abuse of watchlists, resulting in a unanimous decision for the clinic’s clients. In Raza v. City of New York, another groundbreaking litigation challenging secret police surveillance, Professor Kassem helped negotiate an historic settlement restricting surveillance of constitutionally protected religious and political activity.”
Aka he has wanted to stop the government watchlists. He has tried to stop the police from identifying people at these pro-terrorist rallies...
It gets worse: “Ramzi Kassem, a professor at CUNY's law school, was tapped to serve as a senior policy adviser for immigration in the White House's Domestic Policy Council. Kassem is a vocal Israel critic who spent a portion of his time as an undergrad at Columbia University writing scathing criticisms of the Jewish state, a Washington Free Beaconreview found. Kassem, who helped defendterrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, charged the Jewish state with genocide and decried ‘unconditional’ support for Israel.”"
David lederer on X - "On Veterans Day instead of honoring the brave men and woman who protect this country Mahmoud Khalil protested the day to venerate Hamas terrorists instead!! He was also seen representing the protestors in talks with administrators here, strongly indicating a leadership role
“Veterans Day is an American Holiday to honor the patriotism, love of country, and sacrifice, of Veterans. This won’s stand! We reject this holiday” - CUAD
Mahmoud Khalil’s group
Instead of honoring our veterans they payed homage to the late Hezbollah chief terrorist Nasrallah"
Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: New photos reveal that on Veterans Day, Mahmoud Khalil trespassed onto Columbia’s campus—not to honor U.S. veterans, but to glorify Hamas terrorists. If he despises our veterans but celebrates fallen Hamas terrorists, why is he here?"
Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" on X - "This is Mahmoud Khalil's group which officially endorses terrorism against Jews "it explained how solidarity was essential with members of the so-called Axis of Resistance — which includes Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas" every Dem rallying for Khalil supports terrorism"
Elliot Kaufman on X - "I’m glad that the Mahmoud Khalil debate is bringing out the larger truth about the Columbia protest encampment. It was not pro-peace or anti-war, as much of the media represented it. It was led and organized by supporters of Hamas, who celebrate Oct. 7."
Thread by @ryanmauro on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🚨🚨🚨🚨 🧵🧵🧵🧵 BREAKING: Smoking guns prove Mahmoud Khalil posed terror threat (Please RT!) Khalil's group sought to incite a Oct 7 repeat on U.S. soil! Wanted help from violent extremists abroad. Component of his group declared itself to be a LITERAL part of Hamas! (below) Khalil's group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), was one of over 150 pro-terrorism groups I identified in my study - the largest ever done of the protests - that came out in October
Here, Khalil's group states it is "fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization" It asks for help from violent extremists abroad to help them fight the U.S.: "we seek...instructions from militants in the Global South." The post's slides exalt a violent Islamist uprising in Bangladesh, so his group is obviously not referring to non-violence. Khalil's group tells those engaged in the "intifada" "American imperialism" in the West to replicate the Oct 7 attacks & violent uprising in Bangladesh. His group urges "battling fascist agitators by dismantling state infrastructure" & "confronting military & police en masse." Khalil's group says "we" in America must be killed, jailed, tortured & targeted in order to "genuinely threaten the state" as part of the Global Intifada. "If we want to achieve liberation in America, we must be prepared to make these same sacrifices" seen in Bangladesh. Khalil's group says "the only way to respond to state repression" is to storm prisons & release prisoners and burn down prisons, government offices and state vehicles (like police cars). It describes itself as part of an insurgency in the U.S. "until the empire crumbles" and must learn from violent extremists in Bangladesh that overthrew the government. Khalil's group refers to itself as "the militants of Hind's Hall" and says it is inspired by Hamas, PFLP, etc. It pledges to "continue our fight for Palestine from within the belly of the beast" (America). Khalil's group says it intends to get guidance from its Bangladeshi "comrades" who violently overthrew the government as part of their shared "Global Intifada" Jamaat-e-Islami is the Islamist extremist group largely behind the Bangladeshi uprising Khalil so admires. The group has been linked to Hamas and is described as Southeast Asia's counterpart to the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas's parent org). Khalil's group vowed to "shut down" Columbia University unless it ended the police presence on campus and severed all ties to the NYPD. I wonder why. Khalil's group frequently incites vandalism & property destruction. In this video, Khalil's group boasts about spraypainted graffiti on campus. Khalil's group idolizes terrorist Casey Goonan who committed arson in California. "Resistance is love," "Glory to all our martyrs" and flames surround the demand to "free Casey Goonan." Khalil's group expressed its "full support" for terrorist Casey Goonan and "all our comrades" it hoped to incite to "escalate" It seemingly threateningly said, "We will defend all those who resist." Khalil's group endorses Goonan's arsonist terrorism targeting campus & police property as a "rational action of targeting state infrastructure" The effort to equate American police with Israeli police is also an indirect call to attack them since Khalil's group and its allies support targeting Israeli police. This is part of a publicly acknowledged effort by the seditionist groups to merge their cause with a broader "insurgency" against law enforcement by exploiting issues surrounding race and police misconduct. The objective is to preserve & expand their infrastructure by joining the anti-police cause so it does not fade away when hating Israel becomes less of an issue. Khalil's group directly states its intention to "grow" the terrorist campaign against "state violence." The goal isn't to just destroy Israel. It's to "topple all institutions profiting from colonial, racial capitalism."
Here again, Khalil's group calls for a repeat of the October 7 attacks on U.S. soil. It says to "look to the tactics" of the "Palestinian resistance for inspired actions." It says to "rise" "like a flood." The reference to a "flood" would be unmistakable to his comrades: The October 7 attacks that Hamas named "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood." Khalil's group offers another example of an act of terrorism it wants to see repeated: An attempted firebombing of a federal building in Oakland.
Khalil's group also endorses these acts:
Firebombing a UC Berkeley cop car
Torching a campus building
Looting a campus supply building
Setting fire to a construction site on campus
Khalil's group also often refers to the U.S. as "Turtle Island," just like it refers to Israel as Palestine. TI is a reference to a Native American myth that the continent had that name before colonization. It's a refusal to recognize the U.S.'s right to exist & seek its elimination as a country. My latest report shows how 250 anti-Israel/"pro-Palestine" groups want the see the U.S. come to an end and condemn the Fourth of July holiday. Khalil's group also held an event with Samidoun, which the U.S. and Canadian governments have designated as a terrorist entity because it's a front for PFLP. PFLP is a Marxist terrorist group attached to Hamas's hip that took part in the 10-7 attacks. Khalil's group also has ties to the Chinese Communist Party through a CCP front called People's Forum. Columbia protestors went to People's Forum HQ, where they were told to riot, which they did a few hours later. Khalil's group is actually a coalition of 116 groups, the largest likely being the Columbia chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. SJP declared itself to be a LITERAL part of Hamas (and arguably other Oct 7 perpetrators like PFLP) after the atrocities happened. Almost no one noticed. I discussed it in my study here:
Why hasn't the Trump Administration been citing this evidence?...
Ilhan Omar's daughter was or is a "coordinator" for Kahlil's group, CUAD, and the Columbia chapter of SJP. As I mentioned, SJP declared itself to be a literal part of Hamas after Oct 7."
This doesn't mean Mahmoud Khalil was linked to any of this, of course, but naturally, if a swastika appears at a protest the left disapproves of, it means they are all Nazis
ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi on X - "People tell me, “Oh, you support the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil? One day they’ll deport you too.” To that I say: If I ever become a supporter of terrorism, justify the deliberate murder of a 9-month-old and a 4-year-old by Hamas and call it “resistance,” disrupt schools by leading protests, and advocate for the destruction of Western civilization — not only should you deport me, but you should also keep me far away from any civilized society. And guess what? That day will never come, because I would never do that."
Will Chamberlain on X - "There's a terrible slippery slope involved with the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil The United States might start *gasp* deporting OTHER noncitizens who have violated the terms of their residency"
Mila Joy on X - "Mahmoud Khalil, dressed in a hoodie featuring Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaida, was seen inciting violence against Jews mere hours after disrupting a pro-Israel march in Hampstead, Quebec. He urged protesters to "destroy" and "explode the heads of Zionists.”"
Vivid.🇮🇱 on X - "Here is Mahmoud Khalil in New York, glorifying Hamas and leading hundreds of pro-Hamas, anti-American terrorists, shouting for the complete and utter destruction of Israel. Anyone who defends this idiot hates America, simple as that."
Thread by @Davidlederer6 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "“We’ve tried armed resistance, which is legitimate under international law, but Israel calls it terrorism” -Mahmoud Khalil
At a session where he indoctrinates students to join the pro terror group CUAD on campus. There shld be no more debate whether Khalil himself supports Hamas
This itself is just speech, however he led a group CUAD which blocked Jewish students from entering the lawn on campus, violently took over buildings, harassed and vilified me and my Jewish friends, and impeded academic studies. There is plenty of other support for terrorism from his group that is well documented, more viscous and militant. This is just one clip of Mahmoud speaking. I’m sure there are many others. In case some may think he is referring to “resistance” of the “occupation” his co-panelist makes clear in the same presentation that they are resisting the existence of a Jewish state. “The end goal is the end to the Zionist project, the full liberation of Palestine”"
Hillel Neuer on X - "Mahmoud Khalil, ringleader of pro-terrorist thugs @Columbia, was a political officer for UNRWA—which was defunded by bipartisan U.S. legislation last year over its complicity with terrorism. Khalil served UNRWA while it employed Hamas terror chief Fathi Sharif as head teacher."
Joel M. Petlin on X - "For those interested in a more detailed legal explanation, Mahmoud Khalil is also deportable for another reason:
Khalil is a spokesman for an organization that supports armed resistance by Hamas. That makes him deportable pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(B). That provision in the statute allows the deportation of even lawful permanent residents who are "representative[s]" of a "political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity.” 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)(i)(IV)(aa)-(bb); see also id. at (B)(v) (“representative” defined as including “an officer, official, or spokesman of an organization.") Columbia University Apartheid Divestment (“CUAD”) supports armed resistance by Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization.
See Sharon Otterman, Pro-Palestinian Group at Columbia Now Backs Armed Resistance by Hamas, N.Y. Times (Oct. 9, 2024), https://nytimes.com/2024/10/09/nyregion/columbia-pro-palestinian-group-hamas.html…… (CUAD supports armed resistance by Hamas).
Mahmoud Khalil is a spokesman for CUAD. See https://columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/24/cuad-negotiators-leave-talks-as-shafiks-midnight-deadline-passes/………… (“Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student on the CUAD negotiating team.”).
Too many intelligent people on this platform are misstating the law and the facts for political purposes. It's time to prioritize the law and student safety and support the deportation of those who violate both."
Charlie Kirk on X - "It's not widely known, but over HALF of Columba University's enrollment is now foreign students. Some of them are people like Mahmoud Khalil, who spent all his time agitating in support of Hamas terrorists. But if you dig deeper, the true story is even more appalling: Columbia is using the prestige of its elite undergraduate school to bring in thousands of mediocre foreigners who want a Columbia degree in computer science, engineering, or a similar field. Columbia admits them because they pay full-freight tuition, boosting their bottom line while glutting the American job market and lowering wages for STEM workers. Why are we letting one of America's premier universities become overwhelmingly foreign in order to fund bloated administrator paychecks? Don't take it from me, the internet is full of Columbia grads complaining about what's happened to their school:"
Guy Benson on X - "Outrage gap.
Right: US citizen Edan Alexander, who was forcibly abducted during the 10/7 bloodbath. He’s been held hostage by Hamas for more than 500 days.
Left: A Syrian national & non-US citizen who’s spent the last 18 months in America loudly supporting Edan’s kidnappers."
Dr. Maalouf on X - "So, Mahmoud Khalil, a self-proclaimed ‘Palestinian’ who was born in Syria but holds Algerian citizenship, moved to the US only in December 2022. During his first year in America, he found the love of his life, got married, and received a green card. He spent his entire 2 years in America agitating and organizing anti-American protests. It all seems a little odd, don’t you think?"
Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ on X - "According to multiple reports and open source sources, Mahmoud Khalil had requested in writing for legal assistance against deportation over a day before he was even arrested. How did he know? Who tipped him off and got him fully lawyered up before he was even detained? And why"
miha schwartzenberg on X - "That’s interesting. For a student to have 19 lawyers in a day and organized protests with printed tshirts and banners ready-to-go, sure seems like a “freedom of speech” trouble. 🤔"
Joo🎗️ on X - "“My husband was kidnapped from his home” “I demand his immediate release” “His disappearance has devastated our lives” “Every day without him is filled with uncertainty” Womp womp. Try 523 days in the tunnels of Mahmoud Khalil’s heroes."
Haviv Rettig Gur on X - "But your husband supports kidnapping people from their homes. And not just grown men. Three-year-old girls too. In fact, he’s spent much of the last 17 months running defense for the kidnappers, which is why he was detained. Glad to have cleared that up."
Contributor: Deporting Mahmoud Khalil wouldn't be unlawful - Los Angeles Times - "here is one thing media consumers probably don’t care a lot about: Whether a Syrian national and Algerian citizen who was the face of last year’s pro-Hamas Columbia University campus riots gets deported. Is it any wonder that only 31% of Americans told Gallup in the fall that they have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media? By any metric, Khalil is a wildly unsympathetic figure. The New York Times described him as the “public face of protest against Israel” at Columbia. He acted as the lead negotiator for a pro-Hamas student group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which has referred to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, slaughter of Israelis as a “moral, military, and political victory” and asserted that it is fighting for nothing less than “the total eradication of Western civilization.” Even more relevant, Khalil is not a U.S. citizen. He is a green card holder, a “legal alien.” And he can remain on our soil only when the sovereign — in the U.S., that’s “We the People” — consents to it. When we remove our consent, that person can be deported. The power to exclude is a defining feature of what it means to be a sovereign. Emer de Vattel’s highly influential 1758 treatise, “The Law of Nations,” described this power as plenary: “The sovereign may forbid the entrance of his territory either to foreigners in general, or in particular cases, or to certain persons, or for certain particular purposes, according as he may think it advantageous to the state.” And as the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia noted in a citation in a 2001 dissent, “Due process does not invest any alien with a right to enter the United States, nor confer on those admitted the right to remain against the national will.” It’s quite simple, really: If someone in the U.S. on a tourist visa or in possession of a green card violates the terms of his admission, he can be removed. That brings us back to Khalil — a foreign national who allegedly violated the terms of his sojourn by supporting at least one U.S. State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization, and by making common cause with an organization clamoring more generally for the end of Western civilization. The day the United States loses the ability to deport noncitizens who espouse such toxic beliefs is the day the United States ceases to be a sovereign nation-state. The Khalil saga is where we see the intersection of the three toxic anti-Western ideologies. First, there is the “woke” angle: Khalil represented CUAD, which espouses a neo-Marxist oppressor/oppressed dichotomy, and its view of Israel as an “oppressor” underlies Khalil’s repugnant activism. Second, there is the Islamist angle: CUAD supports Sunni Islamist outfits such as Hamas. Third, there is the global neoliberal angle: Those protesting Khalil’s detention see little distinction between citizen and noncitizen — as in John Lennon’s dystopian song “Imagine,” they envision a borderless world. Khalil’s arrest and detention are thus only in part about Khalil. On Monday, the official X account for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats posted, alongside a corresponding photo, “Free Mahmoud Khalil.” But if those Senate Democrats and Khalil’s myriad other apologists are being honest, they seek not merely to “free” Khalil from President Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Rather, they seek to free him — and all of us — from the shackles of Western civilization itself."
Left wingers hate the US and want it destroyed, so that tracks
Aleph on X - "If I moved to China and joined an organization calling for the obliteration of Chinese culture I'd feel lucky to just be deported tbh"
Columbia graduate detained by Ice was respected British government employee - "A detained Columbia University graduate threatened with deportation after the Trump administration claimed he poses a risk to US foreign policy is a former employee of the British government who was extensively vetted before working at the embassy in Beirut... Andrew Waller, a former British diplomat who worked with Khalil at the UK office for Syria, a diplomatic mission housed inside the British embassy in Beirut, described Khalil as a thoughtful individual and highly valued colleague during his government service. “This is a naked example of the US administration arresting someone for their political opinions, and I think the British government should be exercised about this,” he said... Both Waller and Khalil’s lawyer, Samah Sisay, pointed to the extensive background checks and screening, including about his political views and those held by his family, that Khalil had been through in order to work for the British government, and then later to obtain a US green card... Waller described the “rigorous security clearance”, that Khalil was subject to before he began work for the British government at the embassy in Beirut"
Supporting terrorism and wanting to destroy Western civilization means you can get security clearance and work for the British Government
Should the arrest and looming deportation of a pro Palestinian immigrant (green cardholder) worry Americans? : r/ask - "Mahmoud Khalil is allegedly a senior member or activist in the Colombia University Apartheid Divest. If you look at their official Substack (I actually made an account 10 seconds ago to do this lol) they very clearly support Hamas and terrorism. There are articles calling the October 7th massacre heroic and I found several mourning the death of a high level Hamas leader and calling him a martyr. So Khalil is being deleted for supporting a terrorist organization, which is completely legal."
Thread by @ShirionOrg on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "$386,456. While you work. While you struggle. While you pay taxes. He gets a check for HATING this country. Not for the soldier who came home in a flag draped coffin. Not for the veterans who fought for this country. For the guy who would spit on that coffin and laugh. For the man who cheers for the ones who want it destroyed. You grind every day. You sacrifice. You obey the law. He gets a six-figure payday for backing terrorists. And we are supposed to sit back and accept it? If that doesn’t make you absolutely furious, nothing will.
$400,700 in cash. Remember this is ALREADY in a bank account. They send the money every single day.
Legal or illegal? Connection to a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Anti-Terrorism Laws Under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B, it is illegal to provide material support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). If Khalil has any financial or operational ties to Hamas, the U.S. government could seize these funds under terrorism financing laws. The Treasury Department’s OFAC has the power to freeze assets if there is reason to believe they are being use..even indirectly to help support a terrorist groups cause. Even if the money is for personal use, Khalil’s known support for Hamas could trigger asset forfeiture and additional charges under anti-terrorism financing statutes. Here is where this gets interesting when tied to "Immigration & Removal Consequences" Khalil is already in DHS/ICE custody on immigration-related charges. If ICE determines that he received foreign financial support while promoting an FTO’s agenda, it could lead to
Accelerated deportation based on national security concerns
A permanent bar from re-entering the U.S ever again.
While foreign nationals can legally donate to his fundraiser, if ICE or Treasury links any part of these funds to terrorism-related activities, including the protests, they can seize them and use it as FURTHER evidence against him in removal proceedings. That being said..most likely he will keep these funds as it's probably in his wife's name\bank. And the Lawyers are being paid by a foreign state. They don't cost him a cent."
Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 #BREAKING: ICE has ARRESTED another pro-Hamas rioter from Columbia University for immigration violations, Secretary Kristi Noem has announced GOOD! Send them ALL back! The rioter, Leqaa Kordia, is being deported back to Palestine a year after being arrested by NYPD for participating in the Columbia University riots, but was released. She already had her visa revoked TWICE for failing to attend classes, but Biden let her stay away. “It is a privilege to be granted a visa to live and study in the United States of America. When you advocate for violence and terrorism that privilege should be revoked, and you should not be in this country,” @KristiNoem said in a statement."
End Wokeness on X - "NEW: Columbia rioter Ranjani Srinivasan self deported after her student visa was revoked"
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