Summary
A green-card holder and former Columbia University student whose arrest Kenneth S. Stern cites in his 2025 testimony as likely to drive foreign students elsewhere: according to the administration he supposedly distributed pro-Hamas propaganda said to threaten the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States (Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern, PDF p.10).
Details
- Stern asks whether one student allegedly handing out such propaganda — one who did not hide his identity behind a mask — is such a threat, and whether the country is strong enough to hear advocacy it finds deeply hateful or offensive (PDF p.10-11).
- The government also alleges Khalil withheld information when he applied to become a permanent resident; his lawyers say this is pretextual and that the effort to deport him began because of his speech, not an improperly filled-out form (PDF p.11, footnote 33).
Related pages
Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern, Columbia University, Academic freedom