A Columbia University student named Mohsen Mahdawi, who is facing deportation, has a very different history than the one that has been pushed by the liberal media.
Mahdawi has expressed support for terrorists and has a record of promoting antisemitism.
The Washington Free Beacon has done a deep dive on this:
‘I Like To Kill Jews’: Columbia Protester Upheld by Media as Gentle Peace Activist Is Accused of Supporting Terrorists, Boasting He Can Use a Machine Gun, in Scathing New ReportMohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian Columbia University student who is facing deportation over his central role in the anti-Israel campus protest movement, has a previously undocumented history of “support for terrorists, terrorist organisations, armed violence and those who carried it out,” according to a comprehensive investigation published Wednesday by two investigative journalists.The findings undermine Mahdawi’s own claims—as well as those by sympathetic media outlets—that he is being targeted by the Trump administration over his peaceful advocacy for Palestinian rights and those living in Gaza. The 100-page investigation, authored by journalists David Collier and Rachel Feldman, unearthed previously unseen statements in which Mahdawi, who’s from the West Bank, promised to “annihilate the Jews,” praised Hamas, honored dead terrorists, and bragged that the Palestinians “have the capacity and conviction to resist, to kill and to wound.”Mohsen, who graduated last year from Columbia’s highly selective undergraduate program and is now believed to be a graduate student at its left-wing international affairs school, was briefly in immigration detention but was released in April of last year. His case has been dragging out in the courts.His violence-tinged postings, some of which were published as recently as 2024 while Mahdawi was on U.S. soil, tout “armed resistance in the West Bank or Gaza.” They directly challenge the student provocateur’s portrayal of himself as a reformed and now peaceful activist who long rejected the type of violence commonly endorsed by students who protested alongside Mahdawi at Columbia. The report provides additional evidence that some of Mahdawi’s family members, who he casts as victims of indiscriminate Israeli violence, were actually affiliated with armed Palestinian factions.
The Beacon has actually compiled an entire dossier on this case, which you can read here.
David Collier did the research:
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