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Enough with the whining from Mahmoud Khalil, who needs to be accompanied by the world’s tiniest violin

Mahmoud Khalil wants your sympathy.

A lead organizer of the 2024 anti-Isreal tentifada at Columbia University — which included the storming of Hamilton Hall — he is featured in the current issue of New York Magazine with an essay entitled, “I Miss My Old Life.“

In it, Khalil delivers a masterclass in self-pity while detailing the plight of merely existing in the Big Apple.

It should only be read to the strains of the world’s tiniest violin.

“One year after my abduction by ICE, I still watch my back every day,” he writes.

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Khalil, a Syrian national born to Palestinian parents, was a graduate student at Columbia where he led the school’s Apartheid Divest group, which explicitly called for the “total eradication of Western civilization”

As part of President Trump’s executive orders “combating anti-Semitism” Khalil was arrested by ICE in March 2025 and detained for 104 days. But he was freed last June after, he writes, “an army of lawyers sued the administration.” It was........

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