Should Mahmoud Khalil be deported? No. but. [View all]

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Was Mahmoud Khalil an organizer, negotiator and spokesman for CUAD, an anti-Semitic student group at Columbia University? Yes. Certainly.

You have to go pretty far to convince me that an organization like CUAD, is anti-Semitic. Opposing Israel’s existence as a state is not sufficient proof for me, personally. But celebrating the October 7 murders as the Hamas Leaders ‘crowning achievement’ leaves no room for doubt.

CUAD REMAINS COMMITTED TO OUR DEMANDS | A TRIBUTE TO SINWAR [Leader of Hamas]

Yahya Sinwar later became the architect of two of the greatest moments of Palestinian resistance in the past decade: 2018's Great March of Return and last year's Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. He understood, maybe better than anyone else, that there was a time and a necessity for all forms of resistance. The Great March of Return was, for him, a message to those resisting in "the free and civilised world"; it was an instructional display of mass action and protest that we continue to make use of here in the imperial core. Al-Aqsa Flood, conversely, was an acknowledgement of the limitations of the 'peaceful' methods on display in the Great March. That "the Zionist war machine continued to target our sons and daughters with occupation army snipers" — that the violently imposed facts of Palestinian life remained, so intractably, in place — meant that the intifada would need to escalate into resistance by any means necessary. Sinwar's crowning achievement, Al-Aqsa Flood was the very essence of what it is to resist with "with what we have".

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If the terrorism, rape and murders of October 7 is the ‘very essence of resistance’, it is not a cause I would want an association with. 'By any means necessary?' Not in my book.