Jewish Bubba: Mahmoud Khalil and His Green Card on Columbia U.=Hamas Terrorism Promoter

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Mahmoud Khalil and His Green Card on Columbia U.=Hamas Terrorism Promoter

Nadene Goldfoot

Columbia's Law School and Library : According to the students and professors who protest in favor of Hamas terrorism, seem to have never entered or learned the skills of research!

Columbia University in New York City had been the college to attend for Jewish students, back as far as my 2nd cousin, Golda Hahn nee Jermulowske b: 1916, had attended who graduated as a Social Worker probably in 1926. She was the 1st cousin of my father, and I'm 90, so that's going back pretty far. Golda also lived in Portland and had to travel to the other side of the USA to do that.

Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States.

Today, all I've been noticing, even at Portland State U, and especially now at Columbia, the antagonists preventing Jewish students from reaching their classes, having hallway blockades, and the verbal and physical attacks on the campuses, decorated with placards, posters and such against Israel and for Hamas, the terrorists living in Gaza and reaching into Judea and Samaria. Let's face it; Israel is a Jewish country, tiny as it is, it's a country on the map.

NEW YORK, March 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it was looking into what it said were possible violations of terrorism laws during protests over the Gaza war at Columbia University, putting fresh pressure on the epicenter of last year's nationwide anti-Israel activism.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the investigation was part of President Donald Trump's "mission to end antisemitism in this country," calling it a pushback that was "long overdue."

AP News tells us that NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump warned Monday that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his administration cracks down on campus demonstrations against Israel and the war in Gaza.

Mahmoud Khalil, a (lawful U.S. resident) which is debatable-has a green card- who was a graduate student at Columbia until December, was detained Saturday by federal immigration agents in New York and flown to an immigration jail in Louisiana.

Mahmoud Khalil was a graduate student at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at the time of the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations. He is a permanent U.S. resident with a green card. He's still an immigrant with certain privileges that can be withdrawn by Trump. Khalil was born in refugee camp in Damascus, Syria in 1995 to Palestinian refugees from Tiberias, so he's 30 or will be this year. He and his family fled to Lebanon in 2012 after the onset of the Syrian civil war. My friend, Jack Huffman (alias), was born in 1980 in Damascus and in 2012 fled with his stepmother and family to Egypt. I worked hard later to get him to the USA, but couldn't fight the paperwork. He thought his real mother had been Jewish, had reason to think so, and was far from being a Hamas stooge. He was always afraid he would die and no one would know of his life, so I wound up writing a book about him. We shared a lot of messages.

Green card holders, also known as lawful permanent residents, have the right to live and work in the US, but their status is not guaranteed for life and can be revoked under certain circumstances, including serious crimes, fraud, or national security concerns.

Khalil was becoming quite the known Hamas leader. Above is Barnard College. Barnard College is an undergraduate college of Columbia University, sharing resources like libraries and instruction, but maintains its own autonomy with separate endowment, curriculum, and faculty.

After Khalil attended a protest at Barnard College in early March 2025, Ross Glick, a pro-Israel activist, met with aides to United States Senator John Fetterman and Ted Cruz to discuss Khalil. According to Glick, the aides promised to "escalate"(bring to his) attention to Khalil to their respective senators. While campaigning for a second term as U.S. president, Trump consistently vowed to cancel the visas of international students who take part in pro-Palestinian protests. At a rally on October 16, 2023, he said, "Under the Trump administration, we will revoke the student visas of radical, anti-American and antisemitic foreigners at our colleges and universities, and we will send them straight back home.

In fall of 2023, pro-Palestine student activists organized protests in response to the Gaza war, with counter-protests from pro-Israel activists. The students were protesting against the alleged genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by the IDF, with significant faculty support for the protests. Protestors were reported to have yelled “October 7th is going to be every day for you,” toward Jewish students. We all recognize that date, the 2nd worse day since the Holocaust when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel kibbutzim and slaughtered everyone they could in merciless acts, too gruesome to write about, showing what animals they were. Israel is still trying to get back their dead and those few hostages that might be alive at this moment.

Jewish students at Columbia can't look away from rising anti-Semitism.

They held a vigil in New York City for a man who called Jews “the grandsons of apes and pigs”and said “The Holocaust is a myth.”

To me, Keeping Jewish students from doing anything like attending classes at a college is anti-Semitic. Backing Hamas terrorists of Israel is also anti-Semitic because it is a Jewish country, so that makes the act anti-Semitic wherever Jews live. They made life frightening for these Jewish students, who knew very little as it was most likely about the present political position or even about Israel itself, even though they were Jewish. They were there as students!

Update 3/16/25 1:40pm: Eugene Volokh, professor of law emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, explains that the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 provides for the denial of entry and deportation of "any alien who…endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization." Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union and senior fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, tells Reason that Trump's executive order "clearly is based on federal statutory authority, so one cannot make the argument that the president is exceeding his constitutional powers."