Mahmoud Khalil, after his release in America: I do not regret my standing against the genocide in Gaza news

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Renew the Palestinian student and activist Mahmoud Khalil His support for Palestine against the genocide to which he is exposed to the Punishment of Gaza, in his first press interview less than two weeks after his release on a bail while the procedures for canceling the permanent legal residency obtained in US In order to deport it.

It has not passed since the start of the American President’s battle Donald Trump With the elite universities, only a few days when federal immigration officials arrested Mahmoud Khalil in his residence at the University of Colombia in New York last March.

For more than 3 months, the Palestinian student was deposited in a detention facility for migrants in Louisiana countryside (central south), while the Trump administration has made its battle against foreign students who support Palestine.

The Trump administration canceled billions of dollars in research that was dedicated to the universities of Colombia and Harvard and other private educational institutions that witnessed a movement of student protests in support of Palestine, and Khalil was one of the most prominent activists in it.

In an interview with his apartment in Manhattan, Khalil, 30, said, “I am absolutely not regretted to stand against GenocideHe added, “I do not need to defend the right, which is to oppose war and call for the end of violence.”

In the interview, Khalil condemned the anti -Semitism and described the Jewish students as an “integral part” of the protest movement. He said that the government uses anti -Semitism as an excuse to reshape American higher education, which Trump said that ideologies are hostile to America, Marxism and the “radical left” control.

Mahmoud Khalil speaks in an interview with Reuters at his apartment in New York City, U.S., July 2, 2025. REUTERS/Angelina Katsanis
Mahmoud Khalil during his first press interview after his release less than two weeks ago (Reuters)

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Upon his return to New York after his release, he received him at the airport, American Alexandria Okasio Cortez, a political opponent of Trump, and his supporters waved Palestinian flags while he met with his wife and infanty son who did not attend his birth because of his detention.

Two days later, he was the star of a rally on a cathedral stairs near the University of Colombia’s campus in Manhattan, where he criticized university officials.

Also last week, he appeared in front of crowded crowds alongside Zahran Mamdani, the pro -Palestinian deputy in the state, who won the preliminary elections of the Democratic Party in June before the city municipal elections New York For 2025.

“I am not the one who chose to be in this situation, but rather it is an agency to enforce the laws of immigration and American customs. This was of course a great impact on my life. I am still frankly trying to meditate on my new realistic,” Khalil said.

He was unable to attend his graduation ceremony in May and out of detention, unemployed. He said that an international charity withdrew its offer to work as a political advisor.

The government may gain its appeal and hold it again, so Khalil said that his priority is to spend the longest time as possible with his son and his wife, Nour Abdullah, who is an American dentist and citizen.

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Khalil was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, and won permanent residence in the United States last year. He moved to New York in 2022 as a graduate student.

He became one of the main negotiators of the students between the administration Columbia University The protesters who held a sit -in in the campus park and demanded the end of the university’s investments in weapons manufacturing companies and other that support the occupation army.

Khalil is not accused of any crime, but the American government was based on a loose immigration law to push the necessity of his deportation and a number of other foreign students who support himPalestine On the pretext that their “legal, but controversial” discourse may harm the interests of US foreign policy.

The federal judge ruled that the main logical basis of the Trump administration of the deportation of Khalil is probably an unconstitutional violation of freedom of expression, but the government will appeal the ruling.

She wrote a spokeswoman White House Abil Jackson “It is not a freedom to express, but rather individuals who are not entitled to stay in the United States to support terrorists agitation And organizing mass protests made universities unsafe and harassed Jewish students. “

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