re: More Background Information On Mahmoud Khalil:

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The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from "abridging free speech." End of clause ... Full stop.

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The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from "abridging free speech." End of clause ... Full stop.

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The 1st Amendment protects peaceful assembly to redress political grievances — other behaviors — such as blocking access to classrooms, occupying administrative offices, harassing other students, and/or threatening to kill Zionists aren’t 1st Amendment considerations.

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AggieHank86

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The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from "abridging free speech." End of clause ... Full stop. There is no asterisk saying '"free speech of citizens only."

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The Columbia protest case is about immigration law, not free speech
Mahmoud Khalil has First Amendment advocates on his side. But facts and the law are against him.
By Tal Fortgang
March 18, 2025

First, consider the facts. No one disputes that Khalil was the face of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, an umbrella group for pro-Palestinian campus organizations opposed to “the Zionist project” during CUAD’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia in April last year. Although he recently told The Post he is not affiliated with CUAD, when CUAD protesters occupied a building at Barnard College, Khalil spoke for them to the administration. His attempt to disassociate himself from CUAD now warrants skepticism.


Members of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, including Mahmoud Khalil, center, and Sueda Polat, second from left, outside the campus in New York last April 30. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

Just to be clear: CUAD does not just have an implied affinity for terrorists; it celebrates them: When Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli troops last year, CUAD published a “tribute” to this “hero of the revolution,” extolling him for organizing Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel — one of “the greatest moments of Palestinian resistance.”
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Now, consider the law.

The Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes the deportation of noncitizens for various reasons. As the Trump administration might argue, at least three could apply to Khalil’s case. The government may deport a noncitizen who serves as “a representative … an officer, official, or spokesman” of “a political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity.” Khalil has in the past unequivocally held himself out as a representative of CUAD, which explicitly endorses terrorism. Doing so is not a matter of speech, but action.

The U.S. government may also deport anyone for whom there is “reasonable ground to believe, seeks to enter the United States to engage solely, principally, or incidentally in … any activity a purpose of which is the opposition to, or the control or overthrow of, the Government of the United States by force, violence, or other unlawful means.” Last summer, CUAD called for the “total eradication of Western civilization,” providing reasonable ground for government officials to believe that Khalil entered the country to at least oppose the government.

Finally, the clause of the Immigration and Nationality Act that most worries First Amendment defenders: A noncitizen who “endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization” is liable to deportation. Well-meaning critics warn that enforcing this provision violates the First Amendment’s broad protections. But unless Khalil can successfully argue that he has never been associated with CUAD — despite ample evidence suggesting the contrary — there is simply no collision.

“Espouses” does not mean advancing a cause through speech alone. It means, to use one definition, “adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).”

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Certainly, I must have missed all the videos of Khalil engaging in these various ... behaviors. Doubtless, there are hundreds of such videos, and I am just too incompetent in google search syntax to find even one of them.

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