The leader of the protest on the campus, Mahmoud Khalil, explains

Anti -Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil Rationalizing a terrorist attack on October 7 in a new interview with the New York Times published on Tuesday.

“Although he believed the Hamas attack, which killed more than 1,200 people in Israel in late 2023, he was wrong, but he saw it as a desperate attempt to ensure that the world knew the plight of Ghazan in the hands of Israel,” said a graduate student at the University of Colombia, who appears in the Times Podcast.

“For me, it is a desperate attempt to tell the world that the Palestinians here, and that the Palestinians are part of the equation. This was my interpretation for the reason for the Hamas attacks on October 7 on Israel,” Mahmoud. The host Ezzra Klein said.

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When he was asked about his perception of the deadly attack, he said it was “to break the session, to break the Palestinians.”

He said, “Because at this point, there was no political process. It was clear that the Saudi -Israeli deal was very imminent, and the Palestinians will have no path to the state and the determination of the fate.”

The activist explained that he did not believe that Hamas’s actions were justified, saying: “So they had to do this, according to their accounts – which, clearly, were not correct.”

He added that “targeting civilians is wrong.”

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Khalil, born to Palestinian fathers in Syria, has become a central figure in recent months of anti -Israel protests at American universities after the October 7 attack. Immigration authorities I arrest him In March at the University of Colombia as a leader of the anti -Israel activity on the campus.

The immigration judge spent that Mahmoud, who was in the United States with a student visa, could be deported after the Foreign Minister Marco Rubio He wrote a memorandum stating that the campus protests were contrary to the interests of US foreign policy.

In separate data, Rubio announced The United States can cancel a visa, especially if it supports enthusiasm or enhances chaos in university universities. “So when you apply for a student visa or any visa to enter the United States, we have the right to deprive you of almost any reason,” he said.

“But I believe that being in support of Hamas, going to our universities and turning them upside down, collusion with what crimes, sabotage, and collusion in closing institutions … If you tell us that this is what you intend to do when I came to America, we will not allow you to enter.

Despite the efforts made to the deportation of Mahmoud, a federal judge ordered his release on bail while his migration and civil issues are progressing through the courts.

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Elsewhere during the Times interview, Mahmoud’s sympathy for Ghazan’s anger towards Israel.

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“But we cannot ask the Palestinians to be perfect victims after 75 years of getting rid of possession, killing people in Gaza, and they are under siege – at that stage for more than 17 years. The Palestinians in the West Bank had stopped at the checkpoints, and they are the settlers who attacked them at every opportunity. The human intensity of the vitians was absent – and unfortunately still.”