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Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, facing deportation over alleged Hamas support, claims "anti-Palestinian racism" is behind his detention. He cites US policy towards Palestinians.
Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, who faces deportation over alleged support for the Hamas terrorist organization, claims his detention reflects “anti-Palestinian racism” by both the Trump and Biden administrations.
In a letter dictated from an immigration detention facility in Louisiana and released by his attorney, Khalil made his first public statement since his arrest, which has sparked widespread protests.
“My unjust detention is a clear example of the anti-Palestinian racism exhibited by both the Biden and Trump administrations over the past 16 months, as the U.S. continues to supply Israel with weapons while blocking international intervention,” he wrote.
He further argued that “for decades, anti-Palestinian racism has fueled U.S. laws and policies that violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted.”
Khalil compared his situation to Israel’s practice of administrative detention, which allows terror suspects to be held for extended periods without formal charges.
“For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is a common reality,” he stated.
He also referenced a series of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, which marked the end of a two-month ceasefire.
“With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling children in too-small shrouds, and families are being forced to choose between starvation, displacement, and bombs,” he wrote. “It is our moral duty to continue the fight for their complete freedom.”
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