Some people are better off keeping their mouths shut.

Such is the case with Mahmoud Khalil, who — when still a student arrested by ICE agents for his involvement in Columbia pro-Palestine protests — could be propped up as a martyr by the movement.

Khalil was released from jail in June, and each time he’s encountered a microphone or a camera ever since, he’s made himself as unsympathetic as possible.

First, it was refusing to condemn Hamas on CNN. Now, he’s gone as far as to seemingly justify October 7th in a New York Times interview. 5

“To me, [October 7] was a desperate attempt to tell the world that Palestinians are here, that Palestinians are part of the equation,” Khalil said in a Tuesday podcast conversation with Times reporter Ezra Klein.

Klein asked Khalil whether he s

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