On March 10, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a tweet on X stating, simply: “Free Mahmoud Khalil.”
Khalil, a green card holder, is one of the organizers of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. For two academic years those protests have terrorized Jewish students, occupied buildings, destroyed property, and injured campus employees. The Trump Administration has arrested Khalil and initiated deportation proceedings.
Virginia’s campuses have been wracked by similar protests. On October 12, 2023, only five days after Hamas’s invasion of Israel and mass murder of Jews, student protesters at George Mason University chanted “Long Live Palestine!”
They carried images celebrating the hang gliders used to invade Israel and butcher Israeli civilians.
More recently, on February 23, the University of Virginia chapter of…
