Leader of protests at Columbia University appears to justify 7 October massacre [View all]
In the interview, Khalil also appeared to link the 7 October attack to an agreement that would have normalised relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
“It was clear that the Saudi-Israel deal is very imminent, and Palestinians wouldn’t have any path to statehood and self-determination. So they had to do that, according to their calculations — which, it’s obvious, were not right.”
He told Klein that the terror attack was “to break the cycle” of Palestinians “not being heard” by Israel, calling it “a desperate attempt to tell the world that the Palestinians are here, that Palestinians are part of the equation. To me, it felt frightening that we had to reach this moment in the Palestinian struggle.”
He went on to claim: “Having lived in the Middle East most of my life, unfortunately, the only Jew you hear about is the one who’s trying to kill you” and described the reports of antisemitism at Columbia as “manufactured hysteria.”
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