Victor Davis Hanson: Yes, Mr. Khalil, Your Actions Have Consequences

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

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Would you give a student visa to a Hamas supporter? In this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words”, Hanson discusses the contentious detention and deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student with close ties to Columbia University Apartheid Divest, an anti-Israel student group that was thrust into the national spotlight when pro-Hamas student protesters occupied several academic buildings on Columbia’s campus last spring. Hanson explores the balance between free speech rights and national security concerns, examining Khalil's support for vandalism, harassment, and groups labeled as terrorist organizations by the U.S. State Department. "It wasn't what he said, but it was what he did. And he now gets his wish. He can go back to the Middle East and be a strong advocate for Hamas, in closer proximity to it." The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	slash setup. There's been a lot of frenzy in the news about Mahmoud Khalil. He's a former
0:35.9	Columbia University student who was here on a student visa and then has
0:40.4	married an American citizen and has recalibrated his visa to a green card. He's an Algerian citizen
0:48.0	who grew up in Syria and Palestine. Mr. Khalil, as the spokesman for Columbia University apartheid divest,
0:57.0	has on numerous occasions supported groups that committed vandalism, that harassed Jews,
1:04.0	and most importantly have called for the destruction of Western civilization, and glorified
1:10.0	a group that is designated by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist group.
1:13.6	So the question is this.
1:15.6	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal.
1:30.3	There's been a lot of frenzy in the news about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.
1:38.3	He's a former Columbia University student who was here on a student visa and then has married an American
1:46.7	citizen and has recalibrated his visa to a green card. He's an Algerian citizen who grew up
1:56.7	in Syria and Palestine. And he's a spokesman for something at Columbia University called
2:03.6	the Columbia University apartheid divest, in which it suggests that no university should allow any
2:14.6	investments with the so-called criminal state, apartheid state, as they call it, of Israel.
2:22.3	Now, he was deported because his activity is in contrast to what the State Department guidelines suggest,
2:32.3	and that is simply that they do not want to issue visas,
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