THE GATEWAY PUNDIT | Published March 10, 2025
Well, it finally happened.
After leading violent and threatening protests at Columbia University, on Saturday, President Trump’s ICE agents arrested activist Mahmoud Khalil, who has led anti-Israel protests at Columbia and Barnard College.
The New York Post reports that Khalil is set to be deported after being detained and taken into custody by ICE.
The State Department has also reportedly issued an edict revoking his student visa and his green card.
A Palestinian activist who led the disruptive anti-Israel protests at both Columbia University and Barnard College has been arrested by ICE agents at his campus apartment, according to his lawyer.
Mahmoud Khalil, a former graduate student who got his undergraduate degree in Beirut and completed his studies at Ivy League Columbia in December, also reportedly faces having his visa revoked and his green card canceled following President Trump’s crackdown on unrest at colleges.
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, attorney Amy Greer told AP.
The arrest is yet another example of ‘promises made, promises kept’ from President Trump and his pledge to arrest and deport foreign troublemakers who are making college campuses unsafe for Jewish students.
According to The Post, Khalil completed his undergraduate degree in Beirut, Lebanon and worked for UNRWA through 2023, a UN agency infiltrated by Hamas.
UNRWA, which received $1 billion from Joe Biden when he was President, is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Reports indicate that at least 12 UNRWA staffers took part in the mass slaughter of innocent Jews during the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel.
Khalil had threatened Columbia in the past, saying “As long as Columbia continues to invest and to benefit from Israeli apartheid, the students will continue to resist,”
Then he had more ominous words “Not only protests and encampments, the limit is the sky.”
President Trump has made clear that students will not be threatened and intimidated, and those who do so and are not citizens will be deported.
On Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) also announced the immediate rescinding of $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University citing “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students” by the university.
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THE NEW YORK POST | Published March 10, 2025
The Columbia University grad taken into custody by federal immigration officials Saturday is a Palestinian former student and known campus agitator.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents aided a Columbia -owned apartment inhabited by Mahmoud Khalil, who fronts a radical group, Columbia United Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which sympathizes with terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and calls for the “end of Western civilization.”
According to his LinkedIn, Khalil briefly served as a political affairs officer with UNRWA — a UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees — which was stripped of tens of millions in federal funding after an explosive report that some of its members took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel in which 1,200 people were killed.
Khalil (second from left) protesting at Columbia on Oct. 12, 2023.AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura
Khalil and CUAD have been at the forefront of chaotic and at times violent campus protests at Columbia University and Barnard College dating back to at least last spring, which have resulted in injuries, damage to buildings and have struck fear into the hearts of Jewish students and faculty.
After receiving his undergraduate degree in Beirut, Khalil — born in Syria in 1995 — enrolled at Columbia, where he earned his graduate degree at the School of International and Public Affairs in December and was a driving force behind many of the anti-Israel protests, building takeovers and encampments that have plagued the school for more than a year.
According to his lawyer, Amy Greer, Khalil is a permanent US resident with a green card. He served as CUAD’s lead negotiator with the schools’ administration on numerous occasions, including during last spring’s Gaza solidarity encampment, during which scores of tents were erected on the Ivy League school’s campus lawn.
Khalil is the leader of Columbia United Apartheid Divest.Anadolu via Getty Images
Anti-Israel protesters near Columbia University and Barnard College on March 6, 2025.Robert Miller
Anti-Israel protesters outside Barnard College on Feb. 27, 2025.James Keivom
He was suspended from Columbia last April for taking part in the demonstrations, but the suspension was reversed the next day due to lack of evidence, Khalil told a BBC reporter at the time.
He’s been a regular fixture on news programs discussing the group’s disruptive efforts, including an interview on Quds News Network done completely in Arabic. He’s been pictured at campus protests dating back to last April, speaking into bullhorns, taking part in dance circles and marching draped in a keffiyeh head scarf.
According to reports, Khalil is married, and his eight-months-pregnant wife was in the couple’s apartment at the time ICE took him into custody.
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