Mahmoud Khalil : “My story is just a small story,” he says. “A story of how violence against Palestinians can be transported around the world.” ... A Palestinian refugee, intimately familiar with the experience of repeated displacement, he remains resolute in the face of a prospective fresh exile. “Even if I am deported, I would continue to speak out for Palestine,”

"Liberation doesn’t mean throwing anyone out. Liberation means liberating everyone, whether the oppressed or the oppressors"

"In a time where you know that injustices are happening around you, staying silent is complicity"

"What shocked me, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria"

‘Who I am has been skewed so much’ … Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was released from Ice detention in June, in New York, August 2025. Photograph: Ahmed Gaber/The Guardian

Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’

His grandparents survived the Nakba and he fled Assad’s Syria. Khalil is no stranger to political persecution, but not even Trump’s crackdown can silence him

Oliver Laughland in New York

Mon 8 Sep 2025 08.00 EDT

 

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