Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D., N.Y.) broke bread Sunday night with an anti-Israel radical who said "we couldn’t avoid" Oct. 7, whose group called for "death to America," and whom the Trump administration has long attempted to deport.
Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the pro-terrorist protests at Columbia University after Oct. 7, 2023, smiled alongside the mayor and his wife, Rama Duwaji, at dinner at Gracie Mansion, a photo Mamdani shared on X shows. ...
Khalil, a Syrian native and Algerian national, first came to prominence as a leader in the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) movement, a coalition of student groups that Columbia does not recognize as a legitimate organization. During the months after Oct. 7, Khalil took part in illegal protests where agitators disseminated Hamas propaganda, participated in an occupation of Barnard College’s library, and served as a negotiator on behalf of the Columbia encampment.
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