Newly released Mahmoud Khalil spotted back at anti-Israel protest at Columbia University

Anti-Israel activistic Mahmoud Khalil returned to Columbia University connected Sunday to pb different protestation march conscionable days after his release from an migration detention installation connected a judge’s orders.

Khalil was seen being honored successful New York City and gave a code referencing the Trump medication detaining and attempting to deport him.

"Well, who is Mahmoud Khalil?" Khlalil said. "That's what the medication has tried its champion to represent maine arsenic idiosyncratic who's violent. Mahmoud Khalil is simply a quality rights defender. Mahmoud Khalil is simply a state fighter. Mahmoud Khalil is simply a refugee. Mahmoud Khalil is simply a begetter and husband. And supra all, Mahmoud Khalil is Palestinian."

He called this latest protestation the opening of a "longer combat towards justice."

Mahmoud Khalil addressed a assemblage to observe his release. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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"The question of repression that the Trump medication initiated with my detention was intended to soundlessness the question for Palestinian liberation," Khalil said. "It was intended to scare radical into silence. It was intended to distract america from the information that the U.S. authorities is simply a sidesplitting instrumentality successful Palestine and crossed the world. But they wholly failed. Millions of radical spoke up adjacent louder, that it is our work to extremity this genocide, nary substance the idiosyncratic cost, nary substance the idiosyncratic cost. And that's precisely what I volition proceed trying to bash arsenic long, truthful agelong arsenic I'm able, truthful agelong arsenic I americium breathing."

Additional footage crossed societal media showed him holding a Palestinian emblem and starring a chant of "Columbia, Columbia, you can’t hide. You’re supporting genocide."

Columbia University postgraduate pupil Mahmoud Khalil attended a rally to invited him location aft being released from migration custody. (REUTERS/Angelina Katsanis)

Khalil was arrested successful March astatine Columbia implicit his anti-Israel activism connected campus, and an migration justice ruled helium could beryllium removed from the state based connected a memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that said his field protests were astatine likelihood with U.S. overseas argumentation interests.

Rubio cited a proviso of the Immigration and Nationality Act to warrant his finding, and U.S. District Judge Farbiarz aboriginal enjoined the caput from utilizing that determination to deport Khalil.

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However, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) besides added a 2nd crushed for keeping Khalil detained and attempted to deport him. The DHS said Khalil allegedly omitted cardinal accusation from his greenish paper exertion astir groups with which helium was affiliated, including the Columbia University Apartheid Divest.

Pro-Hamas activistic and erstwhile Columbia University postgraduate pupil Mahmoud Khalil posed for selfies aft his merchandise from national migration detention successful Jena, La., Friday, June 20, 2025. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

Farbiarz ordered connected Friday that Khalil beryllium released connected bail from an migration detention halfway successful Jena, Louisiana aft determining that Khalil would not beryllium considered a formation risk.

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Fox News' Brie Stimson contributed to this report.