Jewish Group

[Khalil] also said that Hamas’s October 7 atrocities violated international law because they targeted civilians, but characterized it as inevitable. Shortly before Khalil’s arrest, he led a protest where activists distributed Hamas propaganda on campus.

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While noting that he’s against the targeting of civilians, Khalil repeated several times that “we cannot ask Palestinians to be perfect victims.”

He also implied that the onslaught stemmed in part from the movement toward an Israel-Saudi Arabia normalization deal.

“At that point, there was no political process,” he claims. “It was clear that the Saudi-Israel deal is very imminent, and Palestinians wouldn’t have any path to statehood and self-determination. So they had to do that, according to their calculations — which, it’s obvious, were not right.”