‘Columbia basically failed to protect me’: A conversation with Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24 on Columbia Spectator

And for Columbia, they just should have the courage to stand up against tyranny. They should listen to their students, first and foremost. This can start by reinstating the students that were expelled or suspended because it is bizarre to have students expelled for protesting a genocide. And the second thing is for them to acknowledge their wrongdoings, not necessarily against me, but against every single student at Columbia who was a victim of their crimes, of their arrogance, and of their violence. So I want acknowledgement and then to actually go and have reflection about the student demands: why a university is hiding its investment, regardless of Palestine, regardless of any cause in the world, why would you hide something if it weren’t wrong? Why a university is investing in weapon manufacturers, in companies and institutions complicit in human rights violations.