Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>‘It Felt Like Kidnapping,’ <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> Says in First Interview Since Release</p><p>The <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> graduate and pro-<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> activist returned to <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> after more than three months in detention. The <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration is seeking to deport him. </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a><br>[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]<br>By Jonah E. Bromwich<br>June 22, 2025 Updated 8:10 p.m. ET</p><p>"But Mr. Khalil ... rejected the idea that protesting against <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> is inherently <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitic</span></a>.</p><p>“I was not doing anything antisemitic,” he said. “I was literally advocating for the right of my people. I was literally advocating for an end of a <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>. I was advocating that the tuition fees that I and other students pay don’t go toward investing in weapons manufacturers. What’s antisemitic about this?”"</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-interview-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE8.W3ql.CuoCeiOqmC59&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/22/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/mahmoud-khalil-interview-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE8.W3ql.CuoCeiOqmC59&smid=url-share</span></a> <br> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeportationOfMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>