Khalil leads new Columbia protest after his immigration detention release

Anti-Israeli activist Mahmoud Khalil returned to Columbia University on Sunday to lead another protest march just days after his release from an immigration detention center on the orders of a judge.

Khalil was seen honored in New York and delivered a speech referring to the Trump administration holding and trying to deport it.

“Well, who is Mahmoud Khalil?” Khlalil said. “This is what the administration has done their best to portray me as someone of violence. Mahmoud Khalil is a human rights defender. Mahmoud Khalil is a fighter of freedom. Mahmoud Khalil is a refugee. Mahmoud Khalil is a father and a husband. And above all, the Mahmoud Khalil is the Palestinian.”

He called this last protest at the start of a “longer struggle towards justice”.

Mahmoud Khalil addressed a crowd to celebrate his release. (Photo of Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

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“The wave of repression that the Trump administration initiated with my detention was to silence the movement for the Palestinian liberation,” said Khalil. “It was intended to scare people in silence. It was intended to distract us from the fact that the American government is a machine to kill in Palestine and around the world. But they have completely failed. Millions of people have spoken even stronger, that it is our responsibility to put an end to this genocide, regardless of the personal cost, regardless of the personal cost. am folding me. “

Additional images on social media have shown him hold a Palestinian flag and lead a song of “Columbia, Columbia, you cannot hide. You support the genocide”.

The student graduated from the University of Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, attended a rally to welcome him to his home after being released from the immigration guard. (Reuters / Angelina Katsanis)

Khalil was arrested in March in Columbia for his anti-Israeli activism on the campus, and an immigration judge judged that he could be removed from the country on the basis of a note from Secretary of State Marco Rubio who declared that his demonstrations on the campus disagreed with American foreign policy interests.

Rubio cited a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act to justify its conclusion, and the American district judge Farbiarz subsequently enjoined the secretary to use this determination to expel Khalil.

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However, the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) also added a second reason to keep Khalil held and tried to deport it. The DHS said Khalil would have omitted key information from his green card request on the groups with which he was affiliated, in particular the disinvestment of apartheid from Columbia University.

Mahmoud Khalil, an activist and former graduate student of the University of Columbia, posed for selfies after her release from the federal immigration detention in Jena, Louisiana, Friday, June 20, 2025. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

Farbiarz ordered on Friday that Khalil was released on bail of an immigration detention center in Jena, Louisiana, after having determined that Khalil would not be considered a risk of theft.

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Brie Stimson by Fox News contributed to this report.