This is why Mahmoud Khalil and others - many of them - are coming to the attention of American officials. As you'll read, this is not about a simplistic "deported because he doesn't like or speaks against Israel". It isn't even about the Israeli-Hamas conflict but rather about organized efforts to destroy Western civilization by intersectionalist Marxists, who have become and aim to become, increasingly violent.
The Gazan conflict is just the vehicle of the moment, while the movement - based in academia - has about a 85-yr head start when Marxist intellectuals fled Germany and Italy and immigrated here under the guise of Critical Theory (because their socialist/communist ideology wasn't openly welcome then), from which CRT devolved. And then every manner of division to redefine family, sexuality/gender, race, rule of law in order to shear the fabric of society, burn it to the ground, and then reconstruct it under a Marxist authoritarian society. A global one.
Khalil has been described by those defending him as the chief negotiator of CUAD.
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY APARTHEID DIVEST
Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) is a coalition of over 115 groups that supports Hamas and the October 7 atrocities and is calling for terrorism and a violent insurgency on U.S. soil. It says it is dedicated to destroying Western civilization, is seeking guidance from foreign anti-American “militants,” and praised an anti-Israel arsonist.
The coalition held an event called “Resistance 101” with Samidoun, which is often described as a front for the PFLP because of its strong ties to the terrorist group.
Charlotte Kates, Samidoun’s international coordinator, told the students, “There is nothing wrong with being a fighter in Hamas.” Her husband, Khaled Barakat, is a known senior PFLP member.235
The organizers undoubtedly knew that they were trying to hold a PFLP event. A simple internet search or going to Samidoun’s website will make that clear. Furthermore, the school banned the event twice specifically because of the group’s ties to terrorism and advocacy of violence. The students held it anyway and a few were suspended.236
CUAD idolizes Casey Goonan,237 an anti-Israel terrorist who is being prosecuted for multiple acts of arson on the campus of the University of California-Berkeley and destroying a police car with a Molotov cocktail. The coalition published a post demanding that he be released along with text saying “Resistance is Love” and “Glory to All Our Martyrs.”238
The group continues to carry out acts of vandalism against the school in retaliation for disciplinary measures taken against its members.239
CUAD and Columbia University Bengali Student Association published a joint post on August 7, 2024 that said they are fighting to destroy Western civilization, are seeking guidance from foreign anti-American militants, and are calling for a violent ant-government revolution in the U.S.:
We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South. Our intifada is an internationalist one—we are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of all people. We reject every genocidal, eugenicist regime that seeks to undermine the personhood of the colonized.
As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness becomes ever more explicit and irrefutable, we seek community and instruction from militants in the Global South, who have been on the frontline in the fight against tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist world order.240
The post calls on supporters of Palestinians in the United States to engage in violence and destruction, drawing inspiration from the overthrow of the government in Bangladesh. By complaining about “counter-insurgency,” the group is identifying themselves as insurgents:
The unwavering determination of Bangladeshi students and working class people sets a global precedent that we must incorporate into our actions for Palestine and against state repression.
After [Prime Minister] Hasina broadcasted messages denouncing the Biplob [revolution], insulting protestors and calling them ‘traitors,’ actionists set fire to the state broadcasting network’s headquarters. When the Awami League responded with further repression, cutting off Internet access for five days and imposing a curfew with “shoot-on-sight”orders for anyone in noncompliance, the protestors refused to relent or negotiate.
Instead, they directly resisted by breaking curfew, storming a jail and releasing over 800 inmates, and setting fire to the prison, government offices, and state vehicles. This is the only way to respond to state repression. As the movement for Palestine faces draconian censorship and counter-insurgency in the States, we must learn from our comrades in Bangladesh and continue to escalate until the empire crumbles.
The next slide in the post exalts Hamas’s October 7 atrocities and expresses its desire to commit similar violence in the United States:
The People’s Biplog [revolution] in Bangladesh is ab crucial piece of the universal struggle against American imperialism. It is the Intifada. And just as the Palestinian resistance escalated the Intifada on October 7th, it is now the people of Bangladesh who are
escalating the global battle for liberation.
By directly confronting military and police en masse, by not merely “engaging” but battling fascist agitators, by dismantling state infrastructure, they are moving the global resistance into a new phase of struggle. Those of us in the Western world have the obligation to meet them there.
CUAD then makes it even clearer it is talking about loss of life:
At least two hundred of our comrades in Bangladesh have been martyred by the Awami League in the pastntwo weeks. At this very moment, the government is in the process of targeting, jailing, torturing, and enforcing the “disappearance” of all Bangladeshis who continue to resist.
These martyrs are paying an unfathomable price for the Global Intifada. To escalate at that level, to genuinely threaten the state, cannot be achieved without inviting tremendous tragedy and loss to one’s own community. If we want to achieve liberation in America, we must be prepared to make these same sacrifices.
The last slide ends ominously: “We send love and wait to learn more from our comrades. Long live the People’s Biblop. Long live the Global Intifada.”
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The source document https://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/Marching-Toward-Violence-1.pdf while not comprehensive, gives us a window into how pervasive these groups are.
Unfortunately, we have a substantial portion of at least two generations of Americans committed to this cause. While 1st Amendment protections must be afforded them, we do not have to commit national suicide by permitting residence of non-citizens to espouse violence or alliance with enemy entities. Nor in my opinion, enemy ideology.
And we haven't yet begun to address the source of the problem, which are the activist multitudes running their own cultural revolution camps with our educational tax $.