Mahmoud Khalil was one of the leaders of the Propalestinian student demonstrations on the Columbia campus after the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 and the murderous war waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip which followed. On October 12, 2023, five days after the massacre which killed 1,200 victims and while the Israeli strikes have already left several hundred dead, he was photographed, demonstrating in support of the Palestinians. Eighteen months later, this 30-year-old Syrian, the grandfather of whom was Palestinian, was arrested by the Federal Border Police on Saturday March 8, at his New York home, handcuffed and led to a detention center in Louisiana.
His arrest and his possible expulsion cause one of the first emblematic mobilizations of Donald Trump’s mandate, arousing public demonstrations of hundreds of people in his favor. His case is the subject of legal action, including an audience held Wednesday in New York, but the file will not be decided for several days.
“We know that there are more and more students in Columbia and other universities across the country that have engaged in proterrorist, anti -Semitic and anti -American activities, and the Trump administration will not tolerate it”attacked the American president on Monday in a message on social networks. The case died of the United States: Mahmoud Khalil, graduated from a master’s degree in political studies, holds a “green card”, a permanent residence permit, married to an American who awaits a child, and yet the Trump administration intends to expel him. The man was also charged with any charge.
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