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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s been a lot of frenzy in the news about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. He’s a former Columbia University student who was here on a student visa and then has married an American citizen and has recalibrated his visa to a green card.
He’s an Algerian citizen who grew up in Syria and Palestine. And he’s the spokesman for something at Columbia University called the Columbia University Apartheid Divest, in which it suggests that no university should allow any investments with the so-called criminal state, apartheid state, as they call it, of Israel.
Now, he was deported because his activity is in contrast to what…