The New York Post editorial board criticized Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil for suing Columbia University over what the board described as a claim of discrimination against Palestinians, and faulted remarks by New York State Regent Felicia Thomas-Williams, Hunter Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The board said Khalil and Newsom spoke on Monday, Thomas-Williams on Tuesday and Hunter Biden on Wednesday, without giving calendar dates.
Post editorial board faults Khalil suit, regent's remark, Hunter Biden and Newsom
The New York Post editorial board criticized Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil for suing Columbia University over what the board described as a claim of discrimination against Palestinians, and faulted remarks by New York State Regent Felicia Thomas-Williams, Hunter Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The board said Khalil and Newsom spoke on Monday, Thomas-Williams on Tuesday and Hunter Biden on Wednesday, without giving calendar dates.
Of Khalil, the board wrote, "That's ballsy," and said he had led a movement that "terrorized Columbia's campus (especially Jews), occupied a building, kidnapped and beat a janitor and chanted for Israelis to be killed or ethnically cleansed — practically with the school's permission." The board added: "Expect American 'useful idiots' to cheer him on."
The board called Thomas-Williams' remark "a 'soft bigotry of low expectations'" and said it amounted to "a public official writing off students' ability to learn (and teachers' to educate)." The board wrote that the remark implied that mainly blacks and Hispanics cannot learn, since they make up 62% of the city's public-school kids and 42% of the state's, and said, "If President Trump said this, there'd be riots."
The board said Hunter Biden, whom it described as the former First Son and as saying he has quit drugs, asserted "with zero evidence" that Benjamin Netanyahu chose not to stop the massacre of 1,200 Israelis, the kidnapping of 250 more and the rape of countless women so that he would have an excuse to carry out what the board called his evil "genocide" plan. The board wrote: "Missing from the ugly conspiracy theory: how Bibi forced Hamas' savages to attack."
The board said Newsom said he will not run for president if Kamala Harris does, in part because their supporters overlap so they would be splitting the vote. The board said the governor "revealed his own haplessness" by referring to a "Zen [sic] diagram (which doesn't exist)" instead of a Venn diagram, a term the board said Harris often uses in her "word salads."
- The source does not state the court, filing date or relief sought in Khalil's lawsuit against Columbia University.
- The source does not state whether Columbia University, Benjamin Netanyahu or the Trump administration officials named in a separate lawsuit described in the source responded to the statements or claims about them.
- The source, a photo caption, says Khalil held a July 14 press conference announcing a lawsuit against Trump administration officials, while the editorial describes him as suing Columbia for discrimination; the source does not state whether these refer to the same action or two separate ones.
- The source is an editorial published by The New York Post that mixes the board's commentary with quoted remarks, and it does not cite specific evidence for the board's description of events on Columbia's campus, including the occupation of a building and the kidnapping and beating of a janitor.
- The source does not state when the editorial roundup was published, giving only Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for the remarks it quotes.
- The source elides part of Khalil's quoted remark and does not state the omitted words.
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