Mahmoud Khalil wants your sympathy.
A lead organizer of the 2024 anti-Isreal tentifada at Columbia University — which included the storming of Hamilton Hall — he is featured in the current issue of New York Magazine with an essay entitled, “I Miss My Old Life. “
In it, Khalil delivers a masterclass in self-pity while detailing the plight of merely existing in the Big Apple.
Activist Mahmoud Khalil, who led the encampment protests at Columbia University in 2024, has penned a self-pitying essay for New York Magazine. Michael Nigro for NY Post
It should only be read to the strains of the world’s tiniest violin.
“One year after my abduction by ICE, I still watch my back every day,” he writes.
Khalil, a Syrian national born to Palestinian parents, was a graduate student at Columbia where he led the school’s Apartheid Divest group, which explicitly called for the “total eradication of Western civilization”
As part of President Trump’s executive orders “combating anti-Semitism” Khalil was arrested by ICE in…