The mythomane Mahmoud Khalil keeps telling the media that his grandparents were “forcibly removed” from Tiberias during the 1948 war. And the media, alas, repeat his lie. Apparently checking up on his story is just too much to ask of CNN and The New York Times. More on Khalil’s fable can be found here: “Mahmoud Khalil lies that his grandparents were ‘forcibly removed’ from Tiberias in 1948. @CNN and the @NYTimes accept it as fact.” Elder of Ziyon, March 12, 2025:
CNN writes a backgrounder about Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University leader of the antisemitic CUAD group.
In an interview with CNN last spring, Khalil said he was born a Palestinian refugee in Syria, but his family is from Tiberias, an Israeli city that was once known for its mixed Jewish and Arab population.
During the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, Palestinians were forcibly removed from cities like Tiberias in what became known as “The Nakba,” or catastrophe.
The New York Times uses almost identical language:
Mr. Khalil was born and raised in Syria because his grandparents were forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Tiberias, now part of Israel, according to his lawyers’ legal filing.
These lawyers are the ones now fighting Khalil’s deportation.
Indeed, the legal brief does make that claim, employing a footnote that does not support it at all.
Mahmoud Khalil is Palestinian, but he was born and raised in Syria because his grandparents were forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Tiberias, Palestine.
It is simply not true.
Efraim Karsh summarized what happened in Tiberias in 1948:
Five months after waging his war of annihilation on the Yishuv, the Mufti’s strategy had backfired in grand style. His forces, together with the ALA, had been routed, and Palestinian Arab society had been profoundly shattered, with tens of thousands of terrified and disorientated Arabs taking to the road. On April 18, another milestone in the war was passed when, after a few days of fighting, the Hagana made its first urban gain, capturing the mixed-population city of Tiberias, overlooking the Sea of Galilee, where some 6,000 Jews and about as many Arabs were living.
Ignoring pleas by the local Jewish leadership to stay put, the Arabs acting on the orders of the Nazareth National Committee and on the advice of local British commanders chose to leave Tiberias en masse and were evacuated by the British army….
The Palestine Post, April 9, 1948, describes how the Jews were forced to evacuate their homes under fire.
Eight Jews were killed and the Haganah responded. (April 11, 1948)
The Arab residents chose to flee under the advice of their leaders and the British, who helped evacuate them with their lorries. (April 21)…
No one was forcibly evicted. It was a decision by Arab leaders to leave (partially because of false rumors of a massacre nearby.)…
There were several places in Israel where the Jews encouraged Arabs to leave. Tiberias was not one of them.
Tony Rice says
Palestinians/ Muslims resort to lies as the truth hurts too much.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Even if they were, his parents, and therefore he, were now Syrians. Even if Damascus, like other Arab League governments, refused to give him a passport (which I’m not even sure that they didn’t)
somehistory says
Exactly. As h. clinton so infamously asked, “What difference does it make?”
somehistory says
Any lie is acceptable as long as it spreads the evil filth of islam.
A whole lot of people have been “forced” to do many things. The Jews, back in the late ’30’s and early ’40’s were forced to get on trains and forced to leave their homes and possessions behind as they were forced to go where they would be put to death….for the *crime* of being Jews.
Would that then mean that any Jew living today could go to another country from where he was born and commit crimes against the government and the citizens of that nation and not expect to be facing some manner of punishment?
The lies, even if they had a nano particle-sized grain of Truth, would not, should not, absolve this mozlum terrorist of crimes he has committed and for which he deserves to be deported….back to Syria.
It really doesn’t matter what happened to his grandparents. He’s not a citizen. He had a green card which would allow him to stay here as long as he followed the rules for green-card-holders. He didn’t.
Deport his ugliness and his family and get it over with. Time to move on to the others, even though the university is refusing to follow the law and help identify the culprits.
I. Hale says
So I do wonder who he is: he looks different could possibly be of Jewish-Arabic himself which is not that unusual, and why would he make up such an outrageous story? No matter what: I and those who denounce the HAMAS’ actions on Oct 7th would not be supportive to a PRO HAMAS terrorist protestor in NY. He is a too old to be a student. His so called student Visa should be expired by now since he is 35, if not should be cancelled and he should be sent back to him ancestral home. OH, now I write this I see what he is up too.. maybe he wants to be sent to Tiberius.
NO ONE CARES ABOUT HIS GENEALOGY: HE SHOULD BE ARRESTED, DETAINED and then U.S Homeland Security and or police should decide where and when he leaves the UNITED STATES.
James Lincoln says
Mahmoud Khalil is being given way too much oxygen.
Deport this cockroach!
somehistory says
James, if he was found to have been a serial killer and unmarried, the insanity could not be any worse than it is now. Scott peterson got a lot of *love* mail from really stupid women after he murdered his pretty wife and little boy. It would be the same for this terrorist had his pregnant wife not been made a part of the story.
aoc, elmi and tlaib could all vie for his special attention. They are already working for the sleaze.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
The feeling of empathy towards psychopaths is not uncommon.
E.g., Luigi Mangione, etc.
somehistory says
James, this world of humans has a lot of very mentally unstable people. Misdirected sympathies and twisted empathies.
skeptiker says
Wer finanziert eigentlich noch diese Schrott-Presse wie NYT, CNN, BBC ? Und noch schlimmer, wer bezieht seine Informationen aus solchen Quellen ?
andy says
This Khalil guy is a part of generational plan to invade America, West, India and Isreal (all considered Kafirs) and establish Caliphate. These are evil and vile people palying innocent when small in number. His and his wife and many other must be deported. The judges are complicit in destroying America. The left too.