As we’ve documented, the Guardian’s coverage of the case involving Mahmoud Khalil, the Syrian-born Columbia University graduate (and US permanent resident) who faces deportation from the US over this extremist activism, has completely omitted evidence attesting to his support for Hamas and the terror group’s Oct. 7th antisemitic massacre.
They’ve not only questioned the legal case against Khalil, but have treated him as some sort of civil rights hero, whose only crime is that he’s “pro-Palestinian’.
Recently, the outlet found another US green card holder at Columbia who was arrested, and faces deportation, to advocate for: Mohsen Mahdawi, 34, who the Guardian writes, “led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia”.
The article (“US claims student’s activism could ‘undermine’ Middle East peace”, April 16), written by their immigration reporter Maanvi Singh, quotes from the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio justifying Mahdawi’s arrest and potential deportation. This includes accusations that he “engaged in threatening rhetoric and intimidation of pro-Israeli bystanders”, and that his activism had undermined efforts to protect Jewish students from violence”.
However, the open-source information attesting to Mahdawi’s antisemitism and extremism, which has been reported at other outlets, was ignored by the Guardian.
For instance, a State Department source quoted by the New York Post notes that “Mahdawi played an active role in fall 2024 student protests at Columbia University, instructing protesters to physically push a small group of pro-Israel students, events that university officials later acknowledged as threatening rhetoric and intimidation”.
Mahdawi also helped establish Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), an organisation that openly supports the Oct. 7th massacre, has distributed Hamas material on campus, backed calls for violence against “Zionists”, said that “violence is the only path”, and even called for the “eradication of Western civilisation.
In December, 2023, during an interview with 60 Minutes, Mahdawi openly said he could “empathise” with Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre – that is, the mass murder, rape, torture and mutilation of Israeli men, women and children.
The Guardian, as we’ve long demonstrated, is institutionally incapable of acknowledging the deep-rooted Jew hatred within the anti-Israel movement, a moral and professional abdication evident in their routine airbrushing of the support by ‘pro-Palestine activists’ for the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust.
