Detained Columbia anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil seethed with hatred for Jewish state, ex-classmate says

Detained anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil seethed with hatred for the Jewish state, according to a former classmate who told The Post he was an “insidious” presence at Columbia University.

The female graduate student, who is Jewish, said she even dropped a class they took together last fall at the Ivy’s famed School of International and Public Affairs because he made her feel so “uncomfortable” — and her formal complaints to the college fell on deaf ears.

“It would almost be easier if he were some terrifying looking man who threatened to punch people in the face, but he wasn’t,” she said.

Mahmoud Khalil seethed with hatred for the Jewish state and had an “insidious” presence at Columbia University, a former classmate told The Post. James Keivom

“He was very soft-spoken

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