MSNBC’s Sam Stein traveled over to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to express his disappointment in conservatives for not defending Mahmoud Khalil as he faces deportation for his role in pro-Hamas demonstrations at Columbia University. As Stein tells it, people who made such a big deal about cancel culture on campus need to stand up and claim, “This is chilling.”
Stein began by declaring, “I will say, I find this one not even close. This is such an easy call. And in fact, I’m—I find it chilling what’s going on. Of course, what Mahmoud Khalil represents to me, as a Jew, I find abhorrent, I don’t have any sympathy for Hamas, and I don’t know if he necessarily does, but he’s certainly advocating for things that are closely associated with what they are trying to achieve.”
However, Stein claimed, “The fact is…
