Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian activist and former student at Columbia University, is now in the hands of American immigration services after the revocation of his green card for the Donald Trump administration. His commitment to the rights of the Palestinians, in particular through the disinterest of the apartheid of the University of Columbia, placed it in the center of a political and judicial controversy.
At this point, a confidential interview with his lawyers, who has the right, said one of them on Wednesday. Finally, a judge authorized him to speak with his defenders confidentially and protected by professional secrecy
An childhood marked by exile
Mahmoud Khalil was born in Syria in a Palestinian family of Tiberias, a city located in the current Israel and emptied its Palestinian inhabitants in 1948. His career is that of a refugee, such as millions of scattered Palestinians …