Ivy League anti-Israel ringleader Mahmoud Khalil denies allegations as judge awaits deportation evidence

Mahmoud Khalil, the accused ringleader of pro-Palestinian protests astatine Columbia University, denied each allegations brought against him during a tribunal proceeding connected Tuesday arsenic the Trump medication moves to deport the outspoken anti-Israel agitator.

On Tuesday, Khalil met astatine the LaSalle Immigration Court successful Jena, Louisiana, with his squad of attorneys arsenic the authorities pursues his deportation owed to his engagement successful pro-Palestinian protests astatine Columbia University past year. He is presently detained astatine the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, located 4 hours from New Orleans.

About 35 radical attended the hearing, including his wife, Noor Abdalla. Six wore pro-Palestinian scarves. As it ended, Khalil nodded toward them.

The Department of Homeland Security has until 6 p.m. Wednesday to taxable grounds supporting his removability up of his adjacent hearing, which is scheduled for Friday, April 11 astatine 1 p.m.

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Columbia University pupil Mahmoud Khalil talks to the property during a briefing organized by pro-Palestinian protesters who acceptable up an encampment astatine Columbia University's Morningside Heights field connected Friday evening, successful New York City, United States connected June 1, 2024.  (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Khalil, a 30-year-old greenish paper holder who is joined to a U.S. citizen, was detained by ICE past period for his engagement successful the pro-Palestinian protests that erupted astatine Columbia.

A justice precocious ruled that his proceeding volition instrumentality spot successful New Jersey, alternatively than wherever helium is being held successful Louisiana. Khalil's lawyer alleged that national prosecutors transferred the graduate's lawsuit to a Louisiana court, aiming to summation their chances of a favorable ruling from judges there.

Baher Amzy, lawyer for Mahmoud Khalil, speaks to members of the media extracurricular of the Thurgood Marshall US Courthouse successful New York, US, connected Wednesday, March 12, 2025.  (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The proceeding came connected the heels of Khalil's blistering op-ed published successful the school's paper connected Friday. The op-ed, titled simply "A missive to Columbia," accused the instauration of "laying the groundwork for my abduction."

He went connected to comparison President Donald Trump's crackdown connected anti-Israel protesters to Columbia's ain apathy toward Palestinians, listing different students who person been "snatched by the state."

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"The concern is oddly reminiscent of erstwhile I fled the brutality of Bashar al-Assad’s authorities successful Syria and sought refuge successful Lebanon," Khalil wrote. "The logic utilized by the national authorities to people myself and my peers is simply a nonstop hold of Columbia’s repression playbook concerning Palestine."

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He went connected to impeach Columbia administrators of manufacturing "public hysteria astir antisemitism without erstwhile mentioning the tens of thousands of Palestinians murdered nether bombs made of your dollars."

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The connection came weeks aft ICE agents detained Khalil successful New York City successful aboriginal March. 

He is the archetypal successful the Trump administration's crusade to revoke pupil visas for participating successful protests. DHS alleged that helium "led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated violent organization."

The anti-Israel protests wreaked havoc connected assemblage campuses pursuing the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, starring to Trump's run committedness to revoke foreigners' pupil visas.

"To each the nonmigratory aliens who joined successful the pro-jihadist protests, we enactment you connected notice: travel 2025, we volition find you, and we volition deport you," Trump is quoted successful a information expanse issued by the White House. "I volition besides rapidly cancel the pupil visas of each Hamas sympathizers connected assemblage campuses, which person been infested with radicalism similar ne'er before."

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to Khalil's attorney, Baher Amzy, for comment.