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Last year Mahmoud Khalil gave an interview to a Hamas media operation about his “negotiations” with Columbia University during their occupation of the campus.
The violent occupation of Columbia by terrorist supporters led to riots, vandalism, assaults, terrorist propaganda and attacks on Jewish students. Instead of taking action, Columbia continued to negotiate with the terrorist supporters at the expense of Jewish students.
Now the United States is done negotiating with terrorists.
“SHALOM, MAHMOUD,” the White House Twitter account declared, carrying a message from President Donald J. Trump. “ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University. This is the first arrest of many to come.”
The Department of Homeland Security stated that action had been taken against the Syrian occupier for having “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.”
Khalil, a Syrian national living in New York, is now in immigration detention in Louisiana after the Trump administration revoked his student visa and is seeking to send him back to his homeland.
He had been a leading figure in Columbia’s pro-Hamas riots and encampments. Beyond violently shutting down campuses in support of Islamic terrorists, the group had distributed Hamas flyers, photos of Hamas leaders and plastered stickers reading, “Death to Amerika.”
Now, Khalil and his supporters are fighting to stay in ‘Amerika’ claiming that his arrest is illegal because the Biden administration chose to reward his terrorist activities with residency. However the Immigration and Nationality Act clearly states that any alien “endorsing or espousing terrorist activity” is ineligible for a visa and therefore subject to deportation. And all that Khalil’s ‘green card’ means is that he is a ‘resident alien” who is subject to removal for supporting terrorists.
“This is un-American,” argued Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar. “Anyone celebrating this should be ashamed,” AOC moaned.
CAIR, whose leader supported the attacks of Oct 7, warned, “We and other civil rights groups are in communication with Mahmoud’s legal counsel. This fight is just starting.”
The message was retweeted by Rep. Rashida Tlaib who whined, “Free Mahmoud Khalil.”
But it wasn’t just the radical fringe of the Squad who came to the Syrian’s defense.
The Senate Judiciary Democrats social media account, under Sen. Dick Durbin, falsely argued that, “Mahmoud Khalil exercises his First Amendment rights… but, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio didn’t agree with what he said.” Senate Judiciary Democrats warned, “this should terrify everyone.” At least all foreign nationals who support terrorists and are involved in violence.
The White House Twitter account however replied by once again quoting Trump. “This is the first arrest of many.”
Locally, Attorney General Letitia James who had broken every possible law in pursuit of Trump, the NRA and any conservative groups she could go after, announced that she was “extremely concerned about the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, an advocate and legal permanent resident of Palestinian descent”. Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander, an ally of Linda Sarsour, condemned the move as well, arguing that deporting a non-citizen for advocating for violating the terms of his visa by breaking the law was somehow a “violation of the First Amendment.”
Fake Jewish leftist groups, especially those part of the Soros network, quickly joined the outcry even as they had remained silent when Jewish students were being terrorized at Columbia.
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, a far left group chaired by Alex Soros and formerly headed by Stosh Cotler, an anti-Israel activist and sex club dancer, who now serves as a senior adviser, falsely described the Syrian national as “a New Yorker” who was “detained for constitutionally protected speech” and argued that “the White House’s authoritarian actions are being falsely done in our name as Jews”.
Amy Spitalnick, the former press secretary for the anti-Israel Soros lobby J Street, who took over and turned the Jewish Council for Public Affairs into an anti-Israel leftist group, attacked the Trump administration for cutting funding to Columbia over its tolerance for the harassment of Jewish students and faculty, and objected that “Khalil has still not been charged”.
Other leftist front groups, including Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, which denied the existence of minority antisemitism, New York Jewish Agenda, co-founded by teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten, who had previously accused Jews of being oppressors, and who had opposed the campaign against Hamas, and the Nexus Project, which accused Jews of “weaponizing antisemitism”, all rallied on behalf of a leading figure in campus hate. If Not Now and its co-founder Simone Zimmerman, described immigration authorities as “the American Gestapo” and Jews fighting antisemitism as “Nazi collaborators” for supporting Jewish students.
The ADL however broke from the anti-Israel left by praising Trump’s move, tweeting “we appreciate the Trump Administration’s broad, bold set of efforts to counter campus antisemitism — and this action further illustrates that resolve by holding alleged perpetrators responsible for their actions.”
The reactions to the detention of Mahmoud Khalil finally brought into focus the true attitude of Democrats toward the Hamas campus riots, Jewish students and the United States of America.
Behind the false excuses is the reality that top Democrats supported the Hamas campus riots.
None of their justifications for defending Khalil hold the slightest drop of water. Khalil was a visa holder who was made a resident alien under the Biden administrations. Aliens, resident or otherwise, are not citizens and can be deported on national security grounds and for other violations. The same people now clamoring about freedom of speech on college campuses cheered when students were censored for supporting Trump or the First Amendment, or even wearing a politically incorrect Halloween costume. They advocated mass censorship of social media to eliminate “misinformation” about the pandemic, the election and anything else.
They are not defending Mahmoud Khalil because they support free speech, but because they support Islamic terrorism, they support Hamas and the destruction of America and Israel.
It is not just the Hitler Jugend brats in campus and self haters who support this creep, but Ann Coulter herself. Though she wants to deport foreigners — even H1b visa workers with valuable technological skills — she makes an exception with this guy Dan Greenfield talks about. I replied to her garbage on twitter/X and was spammed with all the merry antisemites who didn’t reply to me per se, but did shoot a lot of antisemitic garbage in my direction.
Is that how bots work?
AGAIN I must point this out…
• A Jew is anyone whose mother is or was a Jew.
• The word “Jewish” is an adjective which denotes a Jew who is properly Zionist.
There are no Jewish supporters of Hamas agitators.
The fact that they so assiduously create fake Jewish group supporting “peace” (actually supporting an Arab state on the ruins of Israel) shows how desperate they are to maintain the lie that these kapos represent anything more than a minuscule fragment of the Jewish community. And that’s not even getting into the fact that groups such as “Jewish Voices for Peace” and “J Street” are comprised to large extent by people who are not Jews according to Halacha and in fact people who are as Jewish as Elizabeth Warren is Native American or Rachel Dozelal is black. These groups are astroturfed by Alex Soros, following the lead of his know senile kapo father. They’re about as Jewish as a Pepperidge Farm Blueberry bagel.
“A Jew is anyone whose mother is a Jew” False.
I know the Jews use that tradition, but it’s not biblical. Throughout the Bible and history, the status of a child ran through the patrilineal side. That included the Jews. There are countless examples of a Jewish man marrying a non Jewish woman and that child was considered to be a Jew. According the scholars, and the most plausible reason for the radical change, was due to Roman soldiers raping Jewish women and becoming pregnant. The identity of the child’s father would be unk due to lack of DNA to verify. I suggest you read the Matrilineal Pronciple by Professor Cohen a former Harvard professor of Jewish studies.
Further, anyone is Jewish who converts to being a Jew and is considered just as much a Jew as being born into a Jewish family
Besides, if being a Jew was really an ethnicity it wouldn’t matter which parent was Jewish.
Jews are both a religion and an ethnicity. Tribal membership was patrilinear, membership in the people was matrilinear. The source is Deuteronomy 7:3.
A Jew is a person who practices Judaism, regardless of race, ethnicity, age, or gender. A Jew is merely a more contemporary word for being a Hebrew. When my grandparents came to the United States, their papers didn’t say they were Jewish, it read that they were Hebrew. I am a Jew and a Hebrew at the exact same time.
A Jew need not have a mother who was Jewish, as a person can go through a conversion process.
I agree that being a Zionist should be a requirement for being considered a Jew, but unfortunately, it’s not.
The word “practice” subjective. One need not be orthodox to be a Jew/Hebrew.
Deuteronomy 7:3 is a bad basis for who is a Jew or not because it doesn’t actually address that issue, it just prohibits intermarriage with Gentiles.
I know you didn’t come up with that verse as the basis for membership in the people, the Tannaim did, but based on that verse, the basis is tenuous, to say the least. Not to mention those Rabbis contradicted the Talmudic tradition of patrilineal descent by changing it to matrilineal only. No offense.
Deuteronomy 7: 3 “Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, and they will serve other gods….”
To me, this looks like a blanket rule against miscegenation with gentiles, with fathers in charge of children’s marriage choices. The reason given is the danger of pagan influence causing unfaithfulness to the LORD (under malign influence of gentile wives). I do not see the “religion” and “ethnic” dichotomy, either.
But there is a lot about Judaism I do not know. It might be Talmud? And Jews no longer have a central feature of their faith – the Temple in Jerusalem with its priest and sacrifices – so much has changed since 70 A.D.
Yes! Jews are a religion and an ethnicity. For anti-Semites, the important thing is to smear, hold separate from the rest of the world, and deny humanity. They will flip flop with the occasion over either system of identification, both at the same time, when possible, to make their case stronger. A series of hateful tropes and slurs consistently must occupy a portion of their conscious mind at all times. Above all, they know history, far better than any accepted scholars, since most historians are “sold out” to the Jewish “cabal”.
Disagree. A Jew from Russia has nothing in common with a Jew from South America other than their religion. With an ethnicity there is a shared language, cuisine, fashion, etc.
Millions of people have converted to becoming Jewish. There is nowhere in the Bible that states membership in the people is matrilineal.
When God spoke to Moses and commanded that he take a census of the Israelite community he was instructed to do so by “listing every man by name, one by one.”
Matrilineal status is not biblical and was a radical change from the normal practice of patrilineal.
Again, if being a Jew was really an ethnicity it wouldn’t matter what parent was Jewish.
Yours is a cogent argument, especially defining “ethnicity” as you do. You make a strong case that religion is the definitive factor.
Christians are of every race under the sun, but not the same ethnicity. I think ancient Israel had both ethnicity and religion in common, but now, like Christianity, is more religious than ethnic.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/sephardic-ashkenazic-mizrahi-jews-jewish-ethnic-diversity/
First we are not Jews we are Hebrews = Hebrew is the DNA – Yeshua Messiah was and is Hebrew – Judaism is the creed by religion.
Being Hebrew is a race. Hebrews are a separate race of human being.
Now if you want to get Biblical, Hebrews are the 8th day creation – Created for Christ to come through.
The Old Testament is the saga of what that lineage went through for the Savior and Messiah to come through. Along the way, laws and the power of YHVH was demonstrated and recorded.
Jews refers to Judean or a member of the Kingdom of Judah, after the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel, it was used to describe all Jews. Hebrew was likely a larger linguistic group.
There is no Jewish/Hebrew DNA. Being Jewish/Hebrew is a religion. DNA may be useful in determining a person’s ethnicity but not their religion. A person’s religion may suggest their ethnicity, but it is more a prerequisite. An Indian Jew is as much a Jew as any Jew. An Ethiopian Jew is as much a Jew as any Jew. A European Jew is as much a Jew as any Jew. A left-wing Jew may be as much a Jew as any Jew but much less intelligent!
Back in the 1990s geneticists verified a link which connects the present-day group of men classified as kohanim to the Biblical figure of Aaron, who lived over 3,000 years ago. Demographic studies have shown that kohanim have always represented approximately five percent of the total Jewish population. (Names like Caan and Cohen are common in the synagogue…)
This haplotype is not confined completely to the Jewish population, but Jews have a higher incidence of “full haplotype” matches. It appears as though the lineage can be traced back to a common ancestor about 3300 years ago,
From a 2015 article on the study: “Since it was found in both Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews, the genome predates the split in the communities which occurred around 1000 CE. Based on the mutations found in the genes, scientists place the original kohen – the first common ancestor – at approximately 3,300 years ago, a timeline that fits neatly within the Biblical parameters of the lifetimes of the first priestly family.”
The article:
Sorry, this dancing on the head of a pin doesn’t work when the Left Wing including Jews uses “Jew and Jewish” interchangeably as in the Soros family’s “Jewish Action” and Randi Weingarten’s “New York Jewish Agenda”, both working AGAINST Zionism/Israel.
Well, that’s the Jew hating mind set. Any port in a storm as long as Jews can’t make safe harbor.
The Sheep vote and tell the Wolves Come and Eat Us were fools not Jews
A Syrian-Muslim-Palestinian-Hamasian?
This is the very type of monster that is committing genocide in Syria this very moment.
Thank you Captain Obvious.
Deep dude…..very deep.
The time has long passed to revert calling them Halachically and as it was ascribed in Torah – Ereev Rav.
the kapos are alive and well in the u.s. but it wont remain that way forever as oct. 7 demonstrated .
a Jew who hates Israel or their G=d is not a Jew, no matter who his mother is.
A Jew who supports the enemy is not a Jew.
Maybe if you executed your killers instead of jailing them, you wouldn’t have to swap them for hostages later.
Go Figure…
“Love your G-d with all your Heart, Mind and Soul.”
was all God ever wanted.
THAT is a Jew.
But you, adulterated that with 634? man made rules.
and He scattered you to the 4 Winds because you were a stiff necked people.
Duh!
The 634 commandments are not man-made rules, they are GOD’s rules. Claiming that GOD scattered the Jews/Hebrews to the 4 winds because they were stubborn or argumentative is a man-made interpretation. GOD allowed people to roam (and in some cases to be transported to other lands) in order to spread his word. Being stiff-necked is a characteristic that GOD gave his chosen people for them to survive and to maintain their beliefs.
Well, it appears you know a lot about Jewish history. Sadly none of it is close to reality.
I suppose you are one of those folks that try to explain Jewish scripture to Jews for them?
At University of Illinois in 1986 there was a group of 7 that promoted Middle East Solidarity committee.
* 2 Jewish grad Students (Mathematics & Economics) At least one of whom was multilingual and at least one of whom was afraid to go into the real world a get a job. He talked to the other one about his academic advisor nudging him to graduate already.
*An angry Black female who wanted to move to Switzerland, but said she couldn’t, because they were racists. i suggested Multiracial Netherland which was 10% POC. She gave me a withering glare
*A Palestinian American female student
* Two white females. One was the daughter of a chemistry professor, so she got a free ride, She was a tall brunette. the other was a blonde with short cropped hair. She protested he second class citizenship by attending a top ranked university while sleeping on the Qua in carboard box or tent for several weeks.
The two white females were the nominal co-leaders..
* All of them had rank except for the Black female and the 2 white Jewish makes, who were at the bottom of the heap,
* The real leader was Palestinian called Leftteri ((pronounced(?) LEFT Terry) about 10 years older than the rest. He was studying nuclear engineering.. that is what you want o there right? a Palestinian studying nuclear engineering as if hijacking planes was not enough!
“Senate Dems, Jewish leftists and Jihadists protest move.”
Ahh yes…… Mahmoud Khalil. Yet another sick little Muslim sh*t who comes here from whatever M.E. crap hole, goes to Columbia U. (where else?), and proceeds to organize Anti-Israel and anti-Jew protests on campus.
And now, finally the Muslim turd is finally going to be deported.
I will never understand the idiotic knee-jerk reaction by Democrats and Leftist Jews to this move. Leftism is truly the suicidal mental disease of our time. I guess these idiot Dems and Leftist Jews don’t seem to realize that the Muslims hate you too, and would gladly kill you.
Are you really that stupid? I know….dumb question.
Actually a nice wad of cash buys anything the ME and D.C.
Maybe these leftist Jews suffer from Stockholm Syndrome…
Actually, weren’t Jewish academicians often leading marxists at universities instead of captured followers? And of course there’s Marx himself from 2 Jewish families with distinguished rabbinical heritage. Karl’s father converted to Christianity as a merely practical matter to continue his law studies. Karl himself became an atheist.
However, it could be argued that present day Jewish Dems demonstrate Stockholm syndrome, continuing to vote with a party that is increasingly pro Muslim/anitsemitic.
Addendum to my comment:
As usual, the same vapid collection of pro-Muslim anti-Jew losers are wringing their hands and rending their clothes. Little Dick Durbin and his collection of pro Muslim Dems including Ilhan Omar and Trashida Tlaib.
Isn’t it time to censure and expel these two worthless shrubs and send them packing back to Somalia and Gaza?
Stupid is as stupid does.
NOW GO AFTER PROFESSORS LIKE JOSEPH MASSAD! IS HE CONNECTED TO KHALI? They have to be. Now catch them aiding a TERRORIST GROUP, directly or indirectly!
After Oct. 7, Massad touched a nerve and a petition with up to 40,000 signatures demanding he be fired should be worthy of some exposure. Instead, Columbia added a class for Massad on Zionism.
I’VE KNOWN MASSAD since his undergrad student days at UNM in the ’80s here in Albuquerque. His mentor was Gerry Bradley, head of the NM Peace Council/World Peace Council/KGB, and the NM Marxist Educators for Socialist Action. Bradley radicalized the leaders of today’s protests, including Massad and Ahmad Assed who held a protest IN SUPPORT OF HAMAS around the 2011 Israeli/Hamas war. Assed is now the President of the Islamic Center of NM. Is he radicalizing his Mosque like Massad is radicalizing students. WHY WOULD BOTH BE INTERESTED IN THE ’80S CENTRAL AMERICA? They were being groomed for the future by Bradley whose followers are all over the country and the Americas!
ABQ. REP. OF JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: “HAMAS DIDN’T DO ENOUGH!” (This was a comment made to me by a middle-aged woman at last May’s UNM Encampment.)
I’ve been writing: “When, not if, Jihad comes here, whose side will these people (Hamas Protesters/Americans) be on?” WE NOW SEE WHICH SIDE!
If I read correctly, an Obama-appointed federal judge has enjoined his deportation. But, as Chief Justice Roberts has instructed us, there are no Democratic or Republican judges.
Until we figure out a way to neutralize these activist Obama and Clinton appointed judges, who do nothing but advance the Islamic/Leftist cause, we will never get out of the morass we are being dragged into.
It will take more than litigation eventually.
Sorry but they need extermination like the roaches they are. Only way to liberate us.
Think about what the ultimate goal of Mahmoud Khalil is. If he had succeeded, there would be funerals to attend, Don’t believe me? We had a terrorist attack here in Pensacola. 3 innocents killed plus 1 terrorist. Why would a Muslim extremist attack Pensacola NAS? Because. That’s it. Just because.
I’ve driven past the place where he got his gun a number of times. It’s not far from where I live. My guess is he drove to and from there on the road that passes right behind my house. He succeeded in his ultimate goal and there were 3 funerals to prove it.
And Khalil doesn’t have to pull a gun. He can just sit by and watch his followers do that.
Mr. Greenfield, I have thoroughly enjoyed your articles and can’t recall ever disagreeing with your assessment or writing style – UNTIL NOW! I know you are a highly skilled writer, but weren’t you taught to add “please excuse my REDUNDANCY” after writing “Senate Dems, Jewish leftists and Jihadists”! There’s not a smidgeon of difference in any of the three lunatic groups listed!
It’s time for PRESIDENT TRUMP to call these RADICAL “judges” out for issuing “orders” to COMMIT CRIMES! If what he is DOING is LEGAL and to NOT DO IT allows a CRIME to CONTINUE then those “judges” are in fact ORDERING PRESIDENT TRUMP TO COMMIT A CRIME! His Lawyers should argue on that point and insist that a “judge” is NOT IMMUNE to arrest for participating in a CRIME! And then ARREST ONE and PROSECUTE!!
The more I learn about Columbia’s involvement with the so-called “Frankfurt School,” and people like Marcuse, the more appalled I am. Why would anyone even consider attending that place? But, people do.
Leftists love Columbia. Look at the number of Journalists in the corporate media who are Columbia grads. Bernard Goldberg, former CBS journalist, noted in 2001 in his book, Bias, that Columbia grads consider themselves mainstream, and in the middle of the political spectrum.
I remember Goldberg’s book, and the leftist outrage that followed it. He really was prescient.
“The depth of the religious structure in a society is directly related to the wealth of the middle and lower classes.” R. Horning
The wealth showered on our kids totally immunizes them from the lives and horrors of their great grandparents. There is no responsibility for actions or thoughts from the educated children “professors” that indoctrinate succeeding generations.
Foreigners don’t have due process protections under American law and are subject to IMMEDIATE deportation at all times. This rodent hasn’t had any of his none existent rights violated and SHOULD be arrested and prosecuted for his obvious jihad terrorism Inciting violence is a crime. Multiple crimes, in fact, even before the component of targeted demographics is considered..
Yeah, ICE should just deport them immediately. Did you hear what ICC did to Duterte (former President of the Philippines)? Flew him back to Brussels immediately before he could get a hearing from a Philippine judge or support from his followers.
The democrats supporting jihadis and their terrorism is nothing new; what it more shocking is seeing american Jews supporting it too under the guise of ‘freedom of speech’. They haven’t go it, October 7 hasn’t opened their eyes one bit. Shame on them all!
I don’t know what I detest more – a RINO or self loathing Jew. I think the self loathing Jew – a bigger fool has never been than a self loathing Jew.
You can be Hebrew like me and not religious. But I’m definitely not a self loathing Jew.
I’m not into religion and the rituals. I’d much rather keep my connection and communication to YHVH and Yeshua Messiah spontaneous and personal.
When I see self loathing Jews like Chuck Shoomer I get furious – not to the point my BP goes up – just disgusting.
George Sorors is not only a self loathing Jew but someone who held the coats of the vile demonic nazziz while they ransacked treasures left by those Jews sent to the nazzi death camps.
The leftists support anyone and anything that is anti American. As far as the Hamas supporting Jews goes they are just too stupid to realize they are signing their own death certificate.
At the risk of sounding like Chandler Bing, can we *BE* any more self destructive?
Sen. Dick Durbin, falsely argued that, “Mahmoud Khalil exercises his First Amendment rights>
Personally I don’t believe any foreign national whether they’re present in the US or not, has the same Constitutional rights that US citizens have. Our Constitution was written for US citizens and not foreign nationals.
A fellow repairing my house told me that some relatives survived the attack at Nir Oz after 14 hours shooting it out with Hamastinians. One member was shot, “but he’s okay.” Those are some tough Israelis to feel okay. Americans have no idea what terrorists do or how they think. Western ideas about the civilized settling of disagreement are a joke to people willing to sacrifice their own families in order to eradicate another culture.