NPR Honors Pro-Hamas Deportee Martyr Mahmoud Khalil, in Limbo but ‘Ready to Fight’
13th March 2026
The public media martyrdom of would-be deportee Mahmoud Khalil continues on National Public Radio. Khalil, who performed openly pro-Hamas activities during post-October 7 campus protests as a green card grad student at Columbia University, before the Trump Administration moved to arrest and deport him, was celebrated on Tuesday morning’s All Things Considered.
The fawning profile by DHS/immigration reporter Ximena Bustillo and national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson: “One year later: Mahmoud Khalil remains in limbo but ready to fight.”
Khalil attended protests that distributed Hamas and Hezbollah literature, which the United States considers terrorist organizations. There’s no First Amendment right to support violence and terror, and no right for green card holders to stay in the country if they violate American policy, especially not a graduate student who abused his host country’s hospitality by harassing its Jewish citizens – there were many disgusting anti-Semitic incidents at Columbia University. Khalil could never bring himself to condemn Hamas.
Yet NPR stuck up for Khalil’s Columbia protesting, without providing any examples of his controversial stands like supporting Hamas’s murderous rampage of October 7, 2023. Does NPR really want listened to sympathize more for Khalil than the innocents killed, raped, and kidnapped? (New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who refused to condemn Hamas, and his publicly pro-Hamas wife hosted Khalil and his wife for dinner Monday night.)