Colombia anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil had hatred towards the Jewish state: the former classmate

Anti-Israel protester withheld Mahmoud Khalil He threw himself with hatred towards the Jewish state, according to a former classmate who told The Post that it is an “insidious” presence at Colombia University.

The graduate woman, who is Jewish, said she even gave up a class that they took together last fall in the famous international and public business school, because she made her feel so “uncomfortable” -and her formal college complaints fell on the deaf ears.

“It would almost be easier if he were a terrifying man, who threatened to hit people in front, but he wasn’t,” she said.

“He was very gentle and careful with his words, which almost made him look more insidious, because he was so intentionally-he was never hyperbolic, he was very clear. He never joked. “

“You know, he wears Polo,” she continued. “It is not like you meet him and scare you he will beat you. For me, it was frightening as it was so clear and so unwavering in its vision of the world, which is a vision of the very frightening world, in my opinion. “

Khalil’s laptop took it in particular.

He strategically wore a sticker – a map of Israel and Palestine, with the fully blackened Jewish state as if he were deleted from the face of the earth, and remembered.

“It was so clear that the thing that leads him the most in life destroys Israel and everyone inside it and anyone who supports him and probably all the Jews … This was scary for me, that something could consume you that way,” said the first year student.

Khalil, 30 years old, has commonly praised in class that he led the students for justice in the Palestine movement in Colombia and “did not like the Jews.”

He was a frequent show in the class, which focused on Israeli policy, the student recalled. And when he participated in the lectures, he interrupted his teacher, who is Israeli.

“Everything about Israel was illegitimate; Everything about Zionism was illegitimate, because, in his mind, it is for a farce and an error to think differently, ”she said.

And Khalil “targeted” the Jewish students in a group of WhatsApp group, which he shared the shared class, she added.

“Once or twice a week, he would simply enter (group chat) and, practically, instigate crazy statements that were only very anti -Semitic and truly inflammatory and would fight with people,” she said.

Reading directly from the chat, she said: “One day, a Jewish student said:” I am disturbed by the normalization of the crazy amount of anti -Semitism expressed in this chat in recent months. Disappointed and shameful. For this, Mahmoud said, “Thank you. This is exactly what some are trying to do so hard in this conversation: Judaism and Zionism, so it is easier to close any criticism of the colonial state, genocide of Israel. “

The student said it was such an irregular behavior that caused it to give up the class -although he did not dare to confront him.

“I simply didn’t want to become a target of him,” she said.

However, the student has anonymously filed two complaints in Title VI to Colombia administrators about his anti -Semitic rans in the group chat – but nothing came from them, she said.

Following the bloodshed and the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, Khalil became a motor force behind many anti-Israel protests, organizing take-over and building camps that have affected Colombia for more than a year, and he is now the boy displayed for President Donald Trump’s Crackdown.

Khalil was grabbed by the US immigration and customs agencies, March 8, at his apartment building held by Colombia and subsequently transferred to a detention unit in Louisiana, where he faces deportation.

The student said that, after finding out the news of his detention, “he literally felt like a high weight on his shoulders.”

“All week, I felt more safe on campus and as if I had a step in step,” she said. “I felt so much anxiety, but now I feel literally safer.

“I really think this country is probably safer without him here, as if I don’t know how he received a green book,” she said. “It seems very much that America hates and everything that means and I think he has done a lot to cause evil and violence here and I could see him doing more. “

She also believes that the university should have kept Khalil responsible for her Jewish hatred.

“There were so many reports against him,” she said. “Do not comply with academic standards. They leaned back so as not to expel it and I think that if their own rules were followed, we will not be here now. “

Khalil-a Palestinian of Syrian origin, who is also a citizen of Algeria fled to Lebanon at 18

Before it becomes a The student leader of the protests on the revolting campus last spring in Colombia, Khalil worked for the controversial Aid and Working Agency of the United Nations.

From June to November 2023 was a political business officer with Unrwa, who had Extended links with Hamas. A Damning Israeli file Compiled by the interrogations of the terrorists in Hamas and the documents found in Gaza, estimated that about 1,200 of UNRWA employees were linked to Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The group fired 10 employees involved in the terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 last year.

And UNRWA, which receives millions of help in the US, has previously entered the US fires to help Hamas with “food, fuel and supplies.”

Khalil also held a higher position at the UK office for Syria in Lebanon – a diplomatic mission within the UK Embassy at Beirut – for four years, According to several reports. He worked in a support role that helped inform British foreign policy about Syria, given his knowledge about the region, as well as his Arab abilities.

The role would have required a thorough background check and “rigorous security authorization”, Andrew Waller, one of Khalil’s former collaborators there, told the guardian.

After raising the lines, Khalil decided to follow a master’s degree in the public administration in Colombia and moved to the US to a student visa in December 2022.

Khalil became a permanent resident of the US after marrying his wife, Noor Abdalla a citizen and dentist of the US aged 28-in the great Apple of 2023.

The couple, who are waiting for his first child at the end of April, lives in an apartment outside the campus, where the federal immigration agents took him last week.

His lawyers are currently fighting in court to prevent his deportation – arguing that ICE has noted him illegally.

Meanwhile, Khalil’s restraint has become a lightning bolt for anti-Israel protesters-which have Vandalized House of Colombia UniversityThe current interim president, Katrina Armstrong, crowded the dining area of ​​Trump Turn and rallied outside the Federal Immigration Court this week, all resorting to Khalil’s freedom and throwing anti -Semitic hatred.

The Trump administration He claimed that he can legally start Khalil, considering his role in the protests on the Anti-Israel campus.

Officials said that although Khalil is not accused or accused of a crime, his actions are “contrary to the interests of national and external politics.”

The graduate student of Colombia said that most of her colleagues wore Keffiyehs in the class to show her support this week -a move that left her “restless”.

Khalil’s possession “made the flames truly and mobilized the students in Campus – it is indeed wild and scary,” she said.