National Public Radio has a dubious scoop — the first interview of Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who has helped lead the pro-Hamas protest movement on campus that cropped up after Hamas massacred and kidnapped hundreds of Israeli citizens in October 2023. Mahdawi has been detained by the government at an immigration office in Vermont and is now under threat of deportation.
NPR left a lot out its fawning online report, credited to Leila Fadel, Jan Johnson and Kaity Kline for Tuesday’s Morning Edition program. The text of the 11-minute radio segment, “Detained on verge of U.S. citizenship, Mohsen Mahdawi speaks from Vermont prison” skipped unflattering facts about Mahdawi gathered by The Washington Free Beacon:
The Beacon emphasized Mahdawi “led a coalition of anti-Israel groups and endorsed the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack,” and…
