“Not only protests and encampments, the limit is the sky.”
Last April, during the height of the encampment protests, Khalil told the Columbia Daily Spectator that he was not personally participating in the protests over concerns he would lose his student visa — which allowed him to remain in the US.
He was briefly suspended that month, but the suspension was reversed the very next day, he told BBC at the time.
“[They said] that after reviewing the evidence, they don’t have any evidence to suspend,” he said.
Khymani James, 20, a prominent spokesperson for the Hamas-cheering radical collective led by Khalil, was banned from campus in the wake of the April protests after a video surfaced of them expressing violent and hateful rhetoric towards Jews.