Pro-Palestinian protest leader defiant despite US deportation threat

Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent leaders of US pro-Palestinian campus protests, pledged Saturday to keep campaigning after he was released from a federal detention center.

“Even if they would kill me, I would still speak for Palestine,” Khalil said as he was greeted by cheering supporters at Newark airport, just outside New York City.

Khalil, a legal permanent resident in the United States who is married to a US citizen and has a US-born son, had been in custody since March facing…

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News Source: www.al-monitor.com

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