Palestinian protester Mahmoud Khalil excoriates Columbia in op-ed

Anti-Israel organizer Mahmoud Khalil ripped the administration of Columbia University in an op-ed published in the school's newspaper on Friday.

The op-ed, titled simply "A letter to Columbia," accuses the institution of "laying the groundwork for my abduction."  He goes on to compare President Donald Trump's crackdown on anti-Israel protesters to Columbia's own apathy toward Palestinians, listing other students who have been "snatched by the state."

"The situation is oddly reminiscent of when I fled the brutality of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and sought refuge in Lebanon," Khalil wrote. "The logic used by the federal government to target myself and my peers is a direct extension of Columbia’s repression playbook concerning Palestine."