October 7 was unavoidable. Oh REALLY? It’s way past time to deport this guy. Ezra Klein of the New York Times interviewed Mahmoud Khalil yesterday, and Khalil dropped this gem during that interview.

Here’s what he said:

Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the anti-Semitic protests that have rocked Columbia University, made excuses for Hamas’s bloodthirsty Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel during a Tuesday interview with the New York Times.

“It felt frightening that we had to reach this moment in the Palestinian struggle,” Khalil told Times columnist Ezra Klein. “We couldn’t avoid such a moment.”

Hamas committed the attack “to break the cycle, to break that Palestinians are not being heard,” Khalil went on. “That was my interpretation of why Hamas did the October 7 attacks on Israel.”

Wow. Just…WOW. 

Let’s unpack that statement. According to Khalil, Palestinian’s weren’t being HEARD. So their only course of action was to go INTO Israel and murder people? Their only choice was to hit the Nova Music Festival and brutally attack, rape, and kill festival goers? All because supposedly they weren’t being HEARD?? 

He may have prettied it up, but Khalil literally excused genuine terrorism here. And all Ezra Klein did was nod approvingly like the lemming he is. 

You see, according to Ezra, Khalil’s ordeal is all about free speech. 

Across the 2024 election, Donald Trump and the people behind him said again and again that they were here to restore free speech to this country. Then they got power. And his administration came after speech in a way that the left never dared to do — never wanted to do.

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Among the first of these people was Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia who had been a leader in the school’s anti-Israel protests.

Khalil is a green-card holder. He’s married to a U.S. citizen. His sole offense had been to speak out against Israel in a way this administration did not like. He was detained under the U.S. secretary of state’s authority to cancel the residency of noncitizens who threaten U.S. foreign policy.

Did this grad student at Columbia actually threaten U.S. foreign policy? Is that how fragile our foreign policy is?

No, Ezra, this isn’t about free speech. This is about a staunch supporter of Palestine and Hamas. This is about a guy who has and is advocating for violence against Israel and the Jews. He’s made that abundantly clear on countless occasions. 

What’s rich during this interview is that he claims that, prior to October 7, Columbia has an anti-PALESTINIAN bias! And then Ezra asked Khalil about October 7. His additional reasoning for the attack is as follows:

I was interning at UNRWA at that point — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency — at the U.N.’s New York office. As part of my internship, my research and work were focused on Palestine, on the situation in the West Bank and Gaza.

You can see that the situation is not sustainable. You have an Israeli government that’s absolutely ignoring Palestinians. They are trying to make that deal with Saudi and just happy about their Abraham Accord without looking at Palestinians — as if Palestinians are not part of the equation. They circumvented the Palestinian question.

Oh. I see. So, this is about Israel, the Abraham Accords and the fact that Palestine was supposedly being “ignored.” Which then justified the October 7 attack? The hell it does!

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He absolutely should be deported. The verbiage he uses is very telling during this interview. He’s claiming that the Palestinians have been victims since then, even though targeting of citizens is wrong. But he doesn’t outright criticize Hamas for their actions. 

What he does do is blame Columbia for not being nice enough to the Palestinian student organizations and that it was THEIR fault that their first protest on October 12 put them right across from those holding a vigil for Israel. 

Throughout the entire rest of the interview, he makes it clear that the only ones at fault on this are the pro-Israel students and Columbia itself. Is anyone in his pro-Hamas/Palestinian student group to blame for wilfully blocking student in the library or stopping them from attending class, or disrupting classes? Nope. 

He’s trying to claim that Palestine isn’t being heard, thus that’s the justification for their terrorist attack on Israel on October 7. So, terrorism, rape, torture, and mass murder was their only available recourse? That’s a load of crap.

Want to bet he won’t blame Palestinians or Hamas for aid trucks being looted?

In recent months, the percentages were even higher. According to UNOPS, in June, 1,155 trucks were collected by the UN and its partner organizations, and 1,048 of them — 90.7% — were intercepted before reaching their destinations. In July, the figure rose to 94%, with 1,161 trucks collected and 1,093 intercepted. [Emphasis added]

Khalil will try to blame Israel for that. Bet me. 

Khalil claiming that October 7 wasn’t avoidable tells you all you need to know about him. He’s an advocate for terrorism. Period. Full stop.

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