Outspoken Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who orchestrated pro-Hamas rallies at Columbia University, has emerged from silence to declare himself a “political prisoner.”
In his first public statements since being detained, Khalil criticized the conditions at his ICE detention facility in Louisiana, lamenting the “cold mornings” and daily struggles.
“I am a political prisoner,” he asserted in a statement disseminated online.
“I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law,” Khalil stated.
Khalil condemned the Trump administration, claiming it targets him as part of a larger effort to quash dissent, suggesting that all political belief holders could face similar scrutiny.
He elaborated:
My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night.
With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom.
Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away.
It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing.
Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.
As a graduate student at Columbia University, Khalil was instrumental in organizing anti-Israel protests that disrupted campus life and jeopardized Jewish students’ safety. During one infamous protest at Barnard College, activists handed out pamphlets sourced from the “Hamas media office,” directly associating the event with Hamas propaganda.
Wow. Read this full letter from Mahmoud Khalil. “I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear.”
— Sarah Lazare
March 27, 2025
It’s crucial to note that Hamas is recognized as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
Further inquiries have surfaced about Khalil’s background. It was revealed earlier that Khalil may have connections to both American and British intelligence, possessing security clearance from the latter. He relocated to New York City in 2022 on a student visa to attend Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
BREAKING BIG: Is Mahmoud Khalil a British Spook? He Worked at British Embassy in Beirut – Had Security Clearance – Attended Columbia University’s SIPA School – Linked to CIA
— The Gateway Pundit
March 27, 2025
No matter his intentions, it seems Mahmoud Khalil will not be troubling America for much longer.
