Khalili, legal residents, free speech, and supporting terrorist organizations
As one might expect, the left is very upset at the government’s attempt to deport green card holder and Hamas-friendly former Columbia student Mahmoud Khalili. Senator Kennedy, Louisiana Republican, summarizes the case quite well here:
Well, Mr. Khalil will receive due process because by now his lawyer has already filed a writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Khalil was involved in the protests. He was a Columbia student under the Immigration and Naturalization Act. If you support a terrorist organization you can be deported. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Mr. Khalil’s side of the story, I understand to be that I don’t support Hamas, I just support Palestinians. All I did was file some — post some Facebook posts. I wasn’t involved in any of the illegal protests or the illegal occupation of student buildings or physically intimidating the Jewish people and Jewish students. We’ll find out who’s right.
The Immigration and Naturalization Act, though, is fairly broad. And if the administration can show acts directly and probably indirectly supporting Hamas, they’ll deport him. And he should be deported, if that’s what’s shown in court.
For those interested in a more detailed legal explanation, Mahmoud Khalil is also deportable for another reason:
Khalil is a spokesman for an organization that supports armed resistance by Hamas. That makes him deportable pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(B).
That provision in the statute allows the deportation of even lawful permanent residents who are “representative[s]” of a “political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity.” 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)(i)(IV)(aa)-(bb); see also id. at (B)(v) (“representative” defined as including “an officer, official, or spokesman of an organization.”) Columbia University Apartheid Divestment (“CUAD”) supports armed resistance by Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization.
See Sharon Otterman, Pro-Palestinian Group at Columbia Now Backs Armed Resistance by Hamas, N.Y. Times (Oct. 9, 2024), https://nytimes.com/2024/10/09/nyregion/columbia-pro-palestinian-group-hamas.html…… (CUAD supports armed resistance by Hamas).
Mahmoud Khalil is a spokesman for CUAD.
More at the link.
There is a hierarchy of non-citizens: illegal aliens, legal visa holders, and then legal green card holders. Khalili may have entered on a student visa, but now he has a green card which conveys greater rights. The arguments for deportation depend on the extent of his involvement in support of Hamas and the extent of his illegal activities on its behalf.
My questions are: why was Khalili here in the first place? When did he arrive in the US? Why was he granted a student visa and later a green card? When did he receive his green card – before or after his Columbia activities – and on what basis did he qualify for a green card? Did someone pay for his coming here and his activism?
Mahmoud Khalil was born in a Syrian refugee camp in 1995 and is a citizen of Algeria. He completed his undergraduate studies in Beirut before enrolling at Columbia University’s SIPA, where he earned his master’s degree in December 2024.
Between June and November 2023, Khalil worked as a political affairs officer with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in New York.
Not any more information there about how he came to be in the US. Here’s a NY Post article with a smidge more background, but it doesn’t even begin to answer those questions of mine.
Can we agree that Khalil is entitled to due process, and that if he was exercising his First Amendment rights—and the bar for proving that his actions were not constitutionally protected should be very high indeed—the charges against him should be dropped?
That said, I would love to see him deported, pour encourager les autres.
If he’s made to leave we’ll see a storm of protest, if he stays people will lose their political jobs, he will be forced to leave.
A green card holder can lose their status and be deported for a lot of things. They can even go to jail simply for not having their green card on their person at all times.
People who have a green card themselves, or are close to someone who has one, are aware of a lot of these things, but not all.
If he ever lied about anything in any of his paperwork, that is enough right there.
A Syrian national with Algerian citizenship, a political affairs officer for UNRWA (very competitive positions because of all the “entourage” types who follow their lead diplomat wherever he goes), and who got into a graduate program at Columbia in some type of international affairs program (for which admissions are always competitive), Khalidi seems to have quite a bit of pull for just some random kid from a refugee camp. Something is not adding up here.
My guess is that he isn’t just some rando from Syria, but somehow along the way he got some very powerful backers in the Western or Arab world or both. I think we should expect some surprising revelations about his background in the near future.
The “More Here” section seems to apply to a few of our congress persons…
YoungHegelian:
That is my hunch as well. I find it interesting that I haven’t been able to locate any information about it so far.
Young Hegelian @ 7:12pm has more (and misplaced) hope than reason. Our pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel MSM will smother the Khalili story quicker than fast. The MSM’s claim not to be anti-semitic rings hollow.
The algerian admissions comes from ‘resistance’ democracy now
https://x.com/ShidelerK/status/1899510045768912980
When he move to algeria
https://x.com/NizNellie3/status/1899551821141532878
Moving along
https://x.com/jsmith4966/status/1899551194315653569
I had understood, but can’t find the links at the moment, that Khalil had been an active leader in the Columbia and now Barnard protests in which Jewish students were locked out, locked in, or harassed while trying to attend classes. Any active participation in these events, which violated civil rights of students, should make him deportable.
Found this:
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ice-arrest-mahmoud-khalil-palestinian-activist-columbia-protests/
MollyG:
No, not agreed.
I agree that he is entitled to due process. But does he have the same free speech rights as a citizen? It’s not at all clear that he does. See this.
I would also like to know how he presented himself in his green card application. Did he say he doesn’t support terrorist organizations, for example? Would that be considered a lie and would it be grounds for ending his status as green card holder?
With all the decent people who are desperate to come to the United States why in the world would we choose to invite a Hamas supporter? Would people be so concerned about Khalil’s first amendment rights if he were a Nazi? Or if he advocated a return to slavery? An American citizen is entitled to express all sorts of odious beliefs but I don’t see why anyone would want to import such people.
He was admitted in 2020, by some passport officer in algiers? (We are left to conclude) with like minded sympathies some admissions officer at columbia accepted him probably because of his islamist sentiments
Gregory Harper:
That’s why I want to know how he got here, what was said, when it happened, who were his sponsors and why, etc.
However, once he’s here and has a green card, the question is what rights does he have now.
More details
https://canarymission.org/individual/Mohsen_Mahdawi
I couldnt find much related to the provocative events on campus
For eighteen years I worked with internationals most of whom were grad students or visiting scholars. I’ve seen internationals struggle to navigate our immigration system which is slow, complicated, and expensive. I’ve called congressional offices a few times trying to get people help.
Khalil got a green card within two years. That’s shocking. I have *never* seen that.
The short answer to “what rights does a green holder possess” is here.
It’s that first one. There is a huge list of things that are legal for US citizens to do, that make an alien removable, and if a green card holder does any of those things he can be deported.
For example, a green holder can’t join the Communist Party without becoming deportable. Communist Party members are inadmissible and a green card holder cannot do anything that would make him an inadmissible alien.
Removal proceedings are briefly described here.
A partial huge list of things that can get a green card holder deported can be found here. For example, some stuff is at the discretion of the Secretary of State.
As many paths as there are to losing one’s green card status, it’s worth noting that even a naturalized US citizen who joins the Communist Party or a terrorist organization can have their citizenship revoked (within five years of gaining it).
If the population of temporary residents in the United States exceeds about 0.5% of the whole, there should be a moratorium on the issuance of student visas until that population falls. (Temporary residency visas should be limited to accredited employees of foreign governments, authentic refugees, students, teachers, and the dependents of those in these categories).
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All schools who recruit students or faculty from out of state should be subject to federal regulations in regard to their posted charges payable by students or patrons of students.
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(1) Mandated ancillary charges are debarred. You can charge for tuition and you can charge for room-and-board, and that’s it. It is permissible to have fee-for-service charges, but the institution may not formally or constructively require the student to use the services in question.
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(2) The coming year’s charges for all students must be posted ‘ere applications for freshmen’s fall matriculation are due.
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(3) The stated charges will be the maximum the student and his patrons are expected to satisfy. Mean discounts granted the previous academic year must be published when stated charges are posted. The discounts the student has been awarded must be revealed to him before a student is required to notify the institution he has elected to matriculate.
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(4) Institutions wishing to recruit students from abroad should be required to purchase a visa for the student and his dependents in a multiple-price auction. There can be no repeat purchases to retain the student in the country after this purchase has run out. Should the student and his dependents leave ‘ere the time on the visa runs out, the unused time is tossed on a secondary market. In lieu of purchasing a visa for the student on the primary market, the school could purchase time on the secondary exchange. The system would work the same for faculty recruited from abroad (who are term faculty only). To qualify for admission under the terms of an educational visa, the student or teacher in question would be required to pass a language proficiency test. His dependents might be required to pass a minimum proficiency test, with dependents under 14 excused. The time you are permitted to remain in the United States under such a visa should not exceed more than seven years in any bloc of 35.
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Again, those admitted as temporary residents are not settlers. In order to receive a settler’s visa, you should have to enter the queue for one. In order to enter the queue, you should have to pass a physical, a cursory background check, and a proficiency test in English (written and oral). You get married while you’re in the queue, you receive a joint spot in the queue at a locus halfway between your initial admission and the date you were married. You sire, bear, or otherwise acquire children, your common position in the queue is calculated by averaging the date you entered, the date you were married, and the date each child entered your family. One of your children arrives at age 21 while waiting, he’s cleaved off and given a separate spot in the queue behind yours. You arrive at the head of the queue, you’re parked there until every member of your family over age 14 has passed the English proficiency test if they have not done so in the last 4 years. A country like the United States might admit 280,000 settlers per year. There would be no way to expedite admissions. You’re in the queue and you’re not admitted until it’s your turn.
I think Khalil can be deported under section (bb) in the long list of things for which a green card holder can be deported.
(IV) is a representative (as defined in clause (v)) of-
(aa) a terrorist organization (as defined in clause (vi)); or
(bb) a political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity;
Rick67:
That’s very interesting.
“Between June and November 2023, Khalil worked as a political affairs officer with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in New York.” That alone would make him deportable, IMO.
Niketas is correct in his discussion. The INA is pretty clear about what can get a green card holder removed. Among my other duties at State, I spent several years as an Immigration Chief and believe that he can be removed without legal difficulty. On his application he was asked, point blank, if he supported any terrorist group.
He’s not a citizen; deport his sorry behind, and let it be known that violent protests in his defense will get one arrested.
Telemachus:
Apparently he’s married to a US citizen. I don’t know whether that makes any legal difference, but it might.
If he’s married to a US citizen that might explain why he has a green card, but that’s not an exemption to the things he might be deported for.
When I worked in Latin America, I was very discreet in expressing any opinions on the politics of the country where I was working. If someone brought up the issue, I might reply. I wouldn’t bring up politics myself. Even in the military dictatorships where I had worked, a lot of people brought up local politics in conversations.
Rest assured I would never have participated in a demonstration–it wasn’t my country. Wouldn’t want to be perceived as an imperialist trying to impose my views on a country. 🙂
Pardon the term, but it takes a lot of chutzpah for a foreigner in the US to do the demonstration deal.
Telemachus
The author Ariel Dorfman spent much of his childhood in the US, where his Commie father worked for the UN. The US government was ready to deport Ariel’s father for having helped a Commie flee the country ( IIRC Maurice Halperin), around the time that the Rosenbergs were executed. Instead of being deported, the UN sent Ariel’s father to work in Chile.
Factoid: Ariel’s parents named him Vladimiro.
And Ilhan Omar married her brother. The Algerian/Syrian and Somalian both need a homecomming.
Here he is on LinkedIn. He seems to have worked in Lebanon for about 10 years at a series of international non-profits, while also attending the Lebanese American University in Beirut. He’s been in NY for 2+ years, including the stint with UNRWA. He began volunteering for a non-profit in 2013, at the age of 18. From a well-connected family, it seems. We’ll learn more soon. https://www.linkedin.com/in/khalilmahmoud?trk=universal-search-cluster
If you remember the three Palestinian students who were shot in Vermont in Nov. 2023, the one who was paralyzed was well-connected indeed. He was nephew or great-nephew to the PA’s former education minister, and his mother was a US citizen, the Irish-born daughter of a wealthy Irish banker.
More on the chess game featuring Khalili:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/03/10/judge-blocks-deportation-of-pro-hamas-leader-but-the-trump-administration-may-have-outfoxed-him-n2186506
They moved him from the NY judge’s jurisdiction to Louisiana.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/03/10/senate-dems-others-agitate-for-release-of-hamas-supporter-mahmoud-khalil-trump-fires-back-n2186505
Because of course they do.
Trump’s response: “This is the first arrest of many to come.”
His full post on Truth Social:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114139222625284782
Note, the ‘protests’ at Columbia included scads of petty crime. In a sane system, aliens who are reasonably suspected of offenses more serious than a petty misdemeanors are placed in preventive detention. If the case is not processed, or if they’re acquitted, or if their eventual sentence is shorter than their time in detention, you can indemnify them according to a standard rate. It should always be the case that aliens convicted of offenses receive corporal punishment or a clipped sentence of incarceration (no parole) and then are deported upon release. The only exceptions you might offer would be to those who were under 21 when released. With deportation would be a suspension of their right of domicile in the United States.
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NB, his employment with UNRWA should have sufficed to have him declared an undesirable and denied entry to the United States. This whole business is a self-inflicted injury.
As I understand it-
[many mainstream, US colleges], and [many, ivy league, US colleges],no longer protect: Jewish people, Christian people, or other religious people, and other people, from- harassment, threats, calls for terrorism , or threats of death:
https://tjvnews.com/2025/03/the-anti-trump-resistance-rushes-to-defend-campus-antisemites/
Oh the plot sickens
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/11/pro-palestinian-student-detained-ex-british-embassy-worker/
Khalil hasn’t been charged with a crime. He took part in campus protests, made pro-Palestinian posts online, and acted as a spokesperson for a student group. That’s all. You may not agree with his views, neither do I, but that’s what free speech is for: unpopular opinions, not just your own.
You cannot claim to defend Joe Rogan talking nonsense about COVID or Jordan Peterson’s right to offend while denying Khalil’s right to protest. Conservatism requires intellectual honesty: either free speech is universal, or it’s a weapon. Pick a side and stick to it.
In the US you have the First Amendment which means you cannot touch him for saying things you don’t like. Unless something substantial turns up you should be defending his right to talk rubbish. Or is this a new cancel culture?
Khalil hasn’t been charged with a crime. He took part in campus protests, made pro-Palestinian posts online, and acted as a spokesperson for a student group. That’s all. You may not agree with his views, neither do I, but that’s what free speech is for: unpopular opinions, not just your own.
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He hasn’t been ‘charged with a crime’ because he’s the sort of subject who is allowed to walk in certain jurisdictions w/o regard to what they do.
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He’s a foreign resident. His franchise to participate in political debate is contingent on public policy. He has personal rights, not civil rights.
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If we had a sane screening system, he would have been identified as an undesirable and denied entry.
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The UK is a latrine as far as civil liberties are concerned. The plight of this obnoxious jerk should not be a priority of yours.
Pardon the term, but it takes a lot of chutzpah for a foreigner in the US to do the demonstration deal.
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That sort of behavior is encouraged by our chattering classes and by the legal system.
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You recall the repeated and obnoxious demonstrations by Iranian nationals resident in the United States during the period running from 1979-81? Just a bad attitude segment of the globe.
https://x.com/MarkGoldfeder/status/1899216476046864543
Mark Goldfeder thread. It’s long, thorough and good. Take it in.
“That’s all.”
And there goes whatever shred of credibility you had left.
art deco – “ The UK is a latrine as far as civil liberties are concerned. The plight of this obnoxious jerk should not be a priority of yours.”
And you are allowed to come here and say that rubbish anytime you like as the UK is a free country – whatever your social media might tell you 🙂
@David Clayton
I am still willing to engage with you in good faith, but I am fast concluding you are a dishonest troll.
“That’s all”, says the TDS suffering absolute fucking idiot.
No, that isn’t “all.” Those “pro-Palestinian” (really, genocidally pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli) “protests” involved taking control of campus buildings, engaging in the often violent harassment of Jewish students on campus, disrupting campus life, and PUBLICLY ADVOCATING AND DEFENDING TERRORISM.
The actual conservatives over at Legal Insurrection outline this, as do many others.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/03/mahmoud-khalil-not-a-free-speech-issue/
Suffice it to say, these actions are not defensible as legitimate protest.
Secondly: to compound that K getting a Green Card means he was pointedly asked if he had any connections to terrorist groups and that he lied. Which means he committed fraud upon the U.S. and thus did not obtain his green card legitimately.
Correct. It is NOT, however, for advocacy of crime and terrorism. Which is what K got into.
Awww, it’s so cute the little dumbfuck Euro Paeudo-Conservative using big words and terms he doesn’t understand!!!!
For the record you simpering motherfucker: I do not deny Khalil’s right to protest, though I do point out that the terms for which U.S. Green Cards are issued can invalidate if one does the wrong kind of political protest and thus one would have to exercise their rights elsewhere.
However, what got Khalil into trouble was not having a right to protest (which BTW is something neither Fatah nor Hamas or their coalition members respect). It was that he has no right to seize control of parts of the Campus, advocate for terrorism, and do other bullshit
If you bothered to think about this for more than five seconds and actually researched both the case and the law you would have recognized this. But you are so focused on Trump Bad that you will shill for literally genocidal Neo-Fascist terrorists engaging in fraud and violence upon the U.S. while it is hosting scum such as Khalil.
If this is supposed to convince us we are wrong, it has done the exact opposite.
No, it sadly does not. Even if it should. Which is probably for the best since I already established how utterly devoid of intellectual honesty you have been.
It is both. Also, by this metric Khalil engaged in conspiracy to deprive his colleagues and the campus faculty of the ability to exercise their universal free speech, and for non-criminal ends such as pro-Israeli protests or simply “not being a dipshit advocating for more Hamas terrorism.”
Which means he cast himself far beyond the pale of. The law.
Advocacy on behalf of a recognized terrorist group is “something substantial.” Incitement to violence is “something substantial.” Green Card Perjury is “something substantial.” Hostile takeover of Campus buildings and acting in a disruptive, violent fashion is “something substantial.”
Now unless you are prepared to do some more research, kindly exercise some intellectual honesty for once in your misbegotten career fishing for reactions here and shut up until you’ve gotten familiar with the case and the law.
Tommy Robinson begs to differ. As do the people imprisoned for reporting on the Welsh-Rwandan Murderer. Among others.
Moreover this is pointless. While foreign nationals in a foreign country are governed by the host country’s laws for the duration of their stay, Two Tier Kier would have to think twice about going after a foreign national for the things he goes after Britons for, especially “Non Crime Hate Incidents”, something utterly alien to most countries and their laws.
And don’t even get me started about the new restrictions on kitchen knives due to how impotent British law has been stopping actual crimes.
And you are allowed to come here and say that rubbish anytime you like as the UK is a free country –
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I’m afraid we read the papers, Mr. Clayton.
Hi Turtler. Aren’t you the charmer 🙂 Still you are entitled to say all that stuff even in the UK. Robinson isn’t in jail for what he said but what he did. Contempt of court is a crime in the US as well.
Never worry as he is used to prison after being locked up here and the US for violence, fraud, stalking and, over your way, being an illegal immigrant.
Contempf is an kangaroo court. Interesting
https://x.com/ShidelerK/status/1899808900972524006
@David Clayton
We’ve already met. Which is one reason my patience with your species of trolling bullshit is limited.
I can be, to those that treat others well and can conduct themselves civilly. Our host herself noted my willingness to talk it out, as did Karmi. But I suffer fools and liars poorly, and I am not sure which flavor(s) you fall into as of yet.
In any case, I view being charming as less important than being accurate. Which is why I do not place much weight upon false pleasantries with those that like condescending, insulting, and smearing. Which is clearly what you were doing with your gaslighting “Britain is a free society, you are allowed to come here and say that rubbish” (as if the problem were the ability to say it as opposed to the punishments levied on those saying it), and your false correlation of “you cannot defend Peterson or Rogan without also defending Khalil’s advocacy for a violent, expressly genocidal terrorist group and support of them committing more terrorism while taking over sizable chunks of the school.”
Which is simply not how things work. As you might know if you bothered reading a single iota about what obligations a Green Card holder has in the states.
But I digress.
I am, but primarily for the reasons I mentioned. I am an American National and thus would have somewhat elevated deterrence capability, and I also have not attracted the awareness of Two Tier Kier.
Now you’re just being utterly stupid as well as dishonest.
Robinson’s “contempt of court” and “what he did” were an act of speech, specifically journalism. He made a report about the rape gangs and their perpetrators. All of which clearly fall under any sane “Public Interest” test for free speech, and which journalism involves.
For this a scumbag black robed tyrant – as part of the steady erosion of traditional British liberties both sides of the Forth – unethically and unlawfully enjoined him against demonstrating the documentary and recording on the “accused” going to and from court. For which he was subjected to literally inhumane conditions that threaten his life and sanity.
So they punished him for journalism in ways far more strict than they did the “Welsh”-Rwandan serial murderer and likely Jihadi. And you claim “See?!? They didn’t punish him for what he said! They punished him for Contempt of Court! On the grounds of his constructive speech (as they call it here)! Totally different!”
Quit while you’re behind. Because even if I were to pretend that the person he made those accusations of were actually innocent (and he almost certainly is not), we know the limits of defamation and for what he was held.
What was that about how being Conservative requires being intellectually honest?
Far be it for me to claim Mr. Yaxley-Lennon is a saint, he is not. Though he admits that. But “violence, fraud, stalking, and being an illegal immigrant”? Why add in incitement to terrorism and he MIGHT one day be able to aspire to the rap sheet of your average Finsbury Park Mosque radical. But we both know how unlikely it is they are subjected to comparable detention conditions in a facility dominated by gangs that wish them dead. As Robinson is.
I also note you have no substantive argument against my points regarding Khalil. That he was engaged in what you accuse Tommy Robinson of, but actually is provably guilty and also defrauded the US on the Green Card. Which was my central point, and which knocks the knees out from under you.
Because at the end, you have no substantive argument.
David Clayton:
Take the L.
You are just
racking up “own goals.”
Hi Turtler – have we? oh hum Anyway here is the wikipedia version of teh Timmy Robinson – Yaxley Lennon conviction sheet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson
Assault
In April 2005 at Luton Crown Court, Robinson was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault with intent to resist arrest against an off-duty police officer in July 2004. The officer had intervened in an argument in the street between Robinson and his then girlfriend, Jenna Vowles. In the struggle that followed, Robinson kicked the officer in the head as he lay on the ground. Robinson received sentences of 12 months and 3 months, which were served concurrently.[140]
In September 2011, at Preston Magistrates’ Court, Robinson was convicted of assault for headbutting a man in Blackburn on 2 April 2011.[141][35] In November 2011, he was given a 12-week jail term, suspended for 12 months.[142]
Public order offence
In July 2011, at Luton and South Bedfordshire Magistrates’ Court, Robinson was convicted of using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour, for leading a group of Luton Town F.C. supporters into a brawl involving 100 people in Luton on 24 August 2010. He was sentenced to a 12-month community rehabilitation order, 150 hours of unpaid work and given a three-year football banning order.[29][143]
Use of false passport
In October 2012, Robinson was arrested and held on the charge of having entered the United States illegally. He had used a passport in the name of Andrew McMaster to board a Virgin Atlantic flight from London Heathrow to New York City.[13] He had been banned from entering the US due to his criminal record. Upon arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport, US Customs and Border Protection officials took his fingerprints, and discovered he was not McMaster. After being asked to attend a second interview, he left the airport, entering the US illegally in the process. He stayed one night and returned to the UK the following day using his own passport.
Robinson pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court after using a passport that did not belong to him to travel to the United States in September 2012. He was subsequently sentenced in January 2013 to 10 months’ imprisonment.[13][144][145] Judge Alistair McCreath told him: “What you did went absolutely to the heart of the immigration controls that the United States are entitled to have. It’s not in any sense trivial.”[13] He was released on an electronic tag on 22 February 2013.[146]
Via his mother, an Irish immigrant to Britain, Robinson reportedly qualifies for an Irish passport as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. In August 2024, three Irish TDs asked their government to investigate the validity of his Irish passport after it emerged he had given his place of birth as “Ireland”.[147]
Mortgage fraud
In November 2012, Robinson was charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit fraud by misrepresentation in relation to a mortgage application, along with five other defendants.[148] He pleaded guilty to two charges and in January 2014 was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.[149][145]
Robinson’s fraud amounted to £160,000 over a period of six months. Judge Andrew Bright described him as the “instigator, if not the architect” of a series of frauds totalling £640,000. “This was an operation which was fraudulent from the outset and involved a significant amount of forward planning.” He described Robinson as a “fixer” who had introduced others to fraudulent mortgage broker Deborah Rothschild. Rothschild had assisted some defendants by providing fake pay slips and income details.[138]
Stalking
Sometime after 10 p.m. on 17 January 2021, Robinson went to the home of journalist Lizzie Dearden after she had asked for his comment for a story she was writing about allegations that he had misused financial donations from his supporters. He falsely accused her partner of being a paedophile and threatened to return every night. He was arrested over the incident, and further published photographs of the journalist’s partner on his Telegram channel stating that “serious allegations” had been made about the partner. It was alleged he threatened the couple in an attempt to prevent the article from being published. Dearden’s article was published on 18 March 2021.[156] On 19 March, Robinson was issued with an interim stalking ban order.[157][158]
On 13 October 2021, Robinson was convicted at Westminster Magistrates’ Court of stalking the couple, and was given a five-year ban from contacting them or referring to them.[159][160] On 19 October 2023, he lost his appeal against the stalking ban order, having admitted that the allegations he made about Dearden’s partner were false.[161]
There is a load more on there if you are interested in seeing what he has been up to – enjoy 🙂
Well, deporting Khalil is a start.
Next should be Ilhan Omar.
Then, all those pro -Hamas demonstrators that were not born in the USA should be deported.
Ethnic Arabs should be deported to an Arab nation and ethnic Africans (by ancestry e.g. Somalian, Sudanese, etc) should be deported to any North African or Sub-Saharan African nation; preferably to a nation their immediate ancestors originated from.
This will allow all of them to live in a nation that they do not abhor; a win-win for everybody, and allow them to agitate for “social justice,” against white privilege, for Hamas, Isis etc.
Just look at how happy Rosie O’Donnell is now living in Ireland or Ellen DeGeneres moving to the UK . They are now supremely content not having to live in the USA.
Next up for deportation should be everybody else demonstrating / agitating FOR Hamas. I will stick my neck out here and predict NOT ONE OF THEM will choose to live in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua or any nation on the continent of Africa or Latin America.
I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
And as for those LGBQT pro-Hamas demonstrators they should be given a one way ticket to Gaza, the West Bank or Iran. There they will have the opportunity to promote their views before they hit the ground after being tossed from a tall building.
While it’s within one’s constitutional right of free speech and peaceful demonstration, these pro-Hamas demonstrators are not peaceful at all and frankly, they are really agitating on behalf of a terrorist organization that seeks the total extermination of every single Jewish person on earth, and for the overthrow of our constitutional republic. They are, for all intents and purposes, fifth columnists, Quislings, traitors.
Why they choose to live in the USA – a nation they hate – totally escapes me.
Mass deportations will allow them to live in a nation for which they have a great affinity.
A win win for all !!!
Khalil has been treated with kid gloves because hes part of the al hijrah enablers those who make the invasion possible
Not how much his wiki hides about his position i’m willing to bet they havent updated
Emma Goldman, despite having become a naturalized US citizen was still deported in 1919. I have a lot of problems with Woodrow Wilson, but her case is much harder than Khalili’s who is still a guest in this country
@David Clayton, am I allowed to pray silently outside of an abortion clinic in no longer Great Britain? Because you subjects are not.
@David Clayton
Yes. You’ve been lurking on this site making snipes like the troll under the bridge you seem to aspire to be for a long time and I’ve noticed you.
If you meant to make a bloody idiot of yourself, this capped it.
Let me quote Wikipedia itself on this matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_reliable_source
And that is what the site itself mentions. Though the truth, if anything, is even worse.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/02/citing-wikipedias-leftist-bias-and-propaganda-sites-co-founder-launching-competing-free-speech-site/
https://nypost.com/2024/06/25/opinion/wikipedias-lefty-bias-measured-in-study-but-ive-felt-it-firsthand/
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/
For myself, I first encountered this in something else. The “Sino-French War” of the late 19th century between the Qing Empire and its Indochinese tributaries on one hand and an ascendant France on the other, which resulted in the destruction of China’s naval power in the South China Sea for over a century, French forces ranging as far afield as Cambodia, Taiwan, and the Red River Valley, and the Qing ultimately accepting the loss of everything from Da Viet on South to France. Which was labeled “limited Chinese victory on land”, apparently on the basis of some admittedly very real and damaging but limited Chinese repulses of French troops in the Far North, while completely ignoring the defeats of Qing forces attempting to reclaim their losses. I later found out that it was due to decades upon decades of Chinese propaganda trying to insist they “won” the war due to claiming the French intended to conquer large chunks of Guangxi (something that they might have desired but which was never the goal of the war) and that by managing to prevent this probably imaginary French conquest of Southern China, they still “won” (even if they literally lost parts of the Chinese imperium that dated back to the Han).
Checking now, this was overturned into a weaksauce “See Aftermath”, but it gives you some idea of how utterly exploitable and unreliable Wikipedia is when one side (in this case Communist Chinese and to a lesser extent Taiwanese based Chinese Nationalists, in others left wing influences) can game the system to stack “Reliable Sources” to get a result. Made even worse by the ability of “reliable” or “credible” “sources” to create false multiplicity by echoing a single claim off each other and thus “laundering” the source (as we saw with the bogus claim about the Belleau Wood Memorial and Trump).
The fact that you are apparently so unthinkingly daft you believe this was the reliable source to go off of speaks volumes to why you are so dysfunctional.
But let’s go through this, shall we?
These much are all true enough, and things even Mr. Robinson addresses in his life, where he was the closest to being the far-right thug that he is painted as. I make no apologies for him on these cases, and I do not hold the court against him.
So in other words “investigation in progress.”
What tended to get ignored was the leadup to this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231020094436/https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/52310
Namely, that Dearden had done a fair bit of stalking of her own, of both the cyber and old fashioned kinds. Not that that justifies what Robinson admitted to doing, but the point is double standards.
I am well aware of what he has been doing. I am also well aware that one should not be a SAINT in order to get justice. That includes both on Tommy Robinson, and AGAINST Tommy Robinson. In particular, Jamal Hijazi was caught on tape and attested by evidence to being a verbally abusive, racist, bigoted bully in addition to being the victim of a pseudo-waterboarding (likely in reaction). It was the latter that was seized upon in the libel trial while the former evidence was discarded, not just that which could be convincingly argued as hearsay or otherwise inadmissable.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/tommy-robinson-cannot-claim-remarks-about-syrian-refugee-in-huddersfield-bullying-video-were-in-public-interest-high-court-rules-3037550
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93ncni
And then there is the persecution for holding a video outside of one of the Rape Gang trials on the basis of supposed intimidation, and the utterly disproportionate sentencing. Which ignores the compelling public interest (namely the grotesque miscarriages of justice and failures to prosecute the rape gangs) as well as journalistic rights such as that of filming outside of court.
And I could go on.
If you wish to pooh pooh Robinson’s track record, there’s a lot to pooh pooh. But it’s worth asking why he is the spearhead of this, especially if he is as bad as he is claimed to be. And why he is treated worse than many convicted of multiple murders.
And that’s before I talk about the fundamental abomination to free speech that British libel law is even after reform (because it was too obvious how abusable it was) and the “reporting ban”s. Which helped Starmer cover up the truth behind Southport.
David Clayton gives a long list of
“Show me the man, I’ll show you the crime.”
Funny how hard the British criminal justice system comes down on thought crimes, Rotherham, trans mad mess, abortion.
Robinson’s former record is not germane to the current situation, in which he has been jailed for publishing truth about the rape gangs. The contempt of court comes, I believe, from his refusal to take down his online materials about the rapes.
If Khalil worked for UNRWA then ipso facto he’s a terrorist, case closed.
So in addition to TDS Clayton has JDS, not surprising.
Metaphor alert:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/03/12/trump-hater-sets-himself-ablaze-while-torching-tesla-charging-station-in-south-carolina/
The chump in South Carolina reminds me of a feature of The Funny TImes, “News of the Weird”. It always included a squib labeled “Least Competent Criminals”.
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Commercial security cameras are everywhere these days. Would not surprise me if he were identified through that conduit. Also, someone showing up at a local hospital with burn injuries.
the suspicion, is he worked as a defacto agent of the British Government, or more properly an agent of other parties, acting against the British Government,
I wonder how many Jews applied to Columbia with better transcripts than Khalili and were turned down.
I’m seeing commentary from former leftists, now free speech advocates, about this being a case of Khalil’s free speech rights being abrogated. But this isn’t just a guy who posted pro-palestinian memes on social media. He helped organize “protests” on campus which stopped students from attending classes and harassed and terrified Jewish students because they were Jewish. He was a lead negotiator with Columbia representing the disrupters of campus life and learning. This was not “peaceful protest.”
Kate:
I wonder how Khalili free-speech advocates would handle a racist student organizing pro-white protests at Columbia which harassed and terrified black students.
Oh, but that’s different.