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August 8, 2025

Columbia’s Most Famous Protester Isn’t Coy about His Anti-Semitism

Mahmoud Khalil’s Jewish boogeymen.

In March, Mahmoud Khalil, who led violent anti-Israel protests at Columbia last year, was detained by ICE for providing false information on his green-card application. Khalil, a native of Syria, was released on the orders of a federal judge six weeks ago, and was recently interviewed by the New York Times columnist Ezra Klein. In the interview, Seth Mandel observes, Khalil makes surprisingly little attempt to disguise his opinions:

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