Mahmoud Khalil tears into Columbia’s administration in school newspaper editorial dictated from ICE detention cell

By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2025-04-05 22:45:25 | Updated at 2025-04-06 18:42:33 20 hours ago

Columbia’s student newspaper published an op-ed from graduate student Mahmoud Khalil who spoke out against the university’s administration.

Mahmoud Khalil speaking to media about the Revolt for Rafah encampment at Columbia University amidst the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in New York City, U.S., June 1, 2024.Mahmoud Khalil is currently in a Louisiana ICE facility. REUTERS

In it, Khalil accused Columbia of laying the “groundwork for my abduction” and accused the Morningside Heights institution of suppressing “student dissent under the auspices of combating antisemitism.”       

Mahmoud Khalil also tears into Columbia’s administration, claiming the  University’s anti-Israel protests aren’t ‘rooted in antisemitism’

Khalil, currently in ICE custody in Louisiana, dictated the fiery letter through his attorneys.

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