by Jerry Dunleavy at Just the News
The People’s Forum helped organize the encampments on Columbia University’s campus. Now the well-funded pro-CCP Marxist group is organizing the protests to free Mahmoud Khalil.
Protests against the arrest of a pro-Palestine Columbia graduate student are being organized by a Marxist revolutionary group that is pro-Communism, anti-Israel, and has potential links to the Chinese Communist Party.
Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in the pro-Palestine and anti-Israel encampments at Columbia University, was detained earlier this month by the Trump administration, with the Department of Homeland Security arguing that he “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.” The People’s Forum helped organize some of the campus chaos and is now organizing protests to free Khalil.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) is the pro-Palestine and anti-Israel group that sparked many of the student encampments at Columbia University. Khalil was a lead “negotiator” for CUAD as the group occupied buildings on Columbia’s campus in the wake of the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023.
A former CUAD leader, Khymani James, said that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and was eventually banned from campus. While CUAD initially apologized for James’s remarks, last October the group withdrew its apology and declared: “We support liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance… Long live the Intifada.” CUAD had also shared a message on Instagram stating that “we are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”
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