Deporting Mahmoud Khalil is Just the Beginning – It’s Time to Go After the Faculty Enabling Campus Extremism
This weekend, federal immigration authorities arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and former Columbia University student, marking the first known deportation effort under President Trump’s executive order targeting foreign nationals who promote antisemitic extremism. Khalil, who helped orchestrate violent anti-Israel protests, glorified terrorism, and spread Hamas propaganda, was taken into custody by ICE agents at his Manhattan residence.
His arrest is a major victory for campus safety and national security—but it barely scratches the surface of the real problem.
Yes, students like Khalil bring hate speech and intimidation to campuses. Yes, they disrupt classes, storm buildings, and spread pro-terror propaganda. But they are merely symptoms of a deeper infection—one that originates in the faculty lounges and lecture halls of America’s most elite universities.
Professors: The Architects of Campus Radicalization
While Khalil is being deported, the professors who radicalized him and thousands of other students remain untouched, continuing to spread their hateful ideologies under the protection of academic freedom. The real danger isn’t just a few overzealous students with megaphones—it’s the tenured faculty members who spend years shaping their minds with anti-Western propaganda.
Who teaches these students that Hamas’ massacres are a “resistance movement”?
Who tells them that the U.S. and Israel are the root of all evil?
Who creates the intellectual framework that justifies mob rule, violence, and intimidation?
It’s not the undergrads. It’s the professors.
Take Huda Fakhreddine, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who openly glorifies Hezbollah, spreads anti-Israel rhetoric, and uses her position to normalize terror-supporting ideologies. While Mahmoud Khalil gets deported, she—and countless others like her—continue to poison the minds of students who will go on to lead the next wave of campus radicalism.
No More Double Standards—Faculty Must Be Held Accountable
Khalil’s arrest shows that the government is finally cracking down on foreign agitators who exploit their time in the U.S. to promote extremism. But if we stop at students, we are ignoring the bigger threat—the professors who train these students, indoctrinate them, and turn American universities into hotbeds of radicalization.
It’s time to take this crackdown one step further:
– Investigate faculty members with ties to terrorist organizations
– Revoke the visas and green cards of professors who promote extremism
– Defund universities that refuse to root out hate from their classrooms
Mahmoud Khalil is just the first domino to fall. The real enablers are still in their offices, writing the next generation’s pro-terror curriculum.
