Why hasn’t Mahmoud Khalil been deported yet?

Piling insult upon insult, Columbia anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil last week reminded everyone that he still hasn’t been deported — by filing a lawsuit that basically says the drive to send him home is . . . a Jewish conspiracy.

Yep: His suit accuses “several avowedly anti-Palestinian private actors and high-level federal government officials” of “jointly carrying out a conspiracy” against him and other terror-lovers. 

The supposed conspirators: Canary Mission, a group dedicated to fighting antisemitism, Betar, a Zionist group with an emphasis on Jewish self-defense, and the Heritage Foundation.

They all work on Project Esther — which aims to educate the US public about how what masquerades as pro-Palestinian advocacy is really nothing more than Jew-hate and support for terrorist violence. 

Somehow, the suit claims, this is really about targeting such advocates “for federal officials to punish, after doxxing and publicly smearing them as antisemitic and supportive of terrorism.” 

Even the pro-Hamas New York Times, which recently published a lunatic claim that Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinians, characterizes this legal argument as a reach. 

Then again, legal reach after legal reach is why Khalil is still in this country, and not even detained by ICE — even though he was hit with a final deportation order in April.

Why? The next month, the Third Circuit refused to hear arguments that he should go free until all his litigation is resolved, but granted a stay pending Supreme Court review of its decision.

It remains outrageous that Khalil has managed to remain in the United States as long as he has. 

He’s been here since 2022 on a student visa; after Oct. 7, 2023, he threw in his lot with the savages of Hamas in the Columbia tentifada, regularly making the media rounds to blame the victims.

Last year, the State Department acted to remove him (under the authority granted by the Immigration and Nationality Act), charging he’d committed immigration fraud in his 2024 application to change his visa status.

Specifically, he’d failed to mention his volunteer work for the (Hamas-aligned) UN Relief and Works Agency, long aligned with Hamas, and his association with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which took openly anti-American positions.

Cue endless screaming about the violation of his rights, when Khalil’s case shows precisely the opposite.

Though he’s a terrorist sympathizer and accused immigration fraudster, our courts keep handing him endless opportunities to relitigate his status. 

Insultingly, he’s even claimed to find inspiration in Auschwitz survivor Victor Frankl’s masterpiece “Man’s Search for Meaning”: Anyone think that was the topic of discussion at his Gracie Mansion family dinner with the Mamdanis?

Khalil was given the most-sought after privilege in the world today: permission to reside in America. 

But rather than try to make a life for himself here, to repay with his talent and energy the country that so graciously admitted him, he dedicated himself to the celebration of Third World barbarism, to aiding and comforting our enemies. 

That he was granted a green card at all is a testament to America’s generosity, as is the endless due process he has received. 

His latest obscene lawsuit just proves again how much he hates our values, how eager he is to abuse our freedoms. 

It’s time for him to find a home in a country he doesn’t hold in contempt.