An Higher West Facet girl is being bombarded with nasty emails and suspicious packages — all as a result of she has the identical identify because the lawyer for Palestinian agitator Mahmoud Khalil, law-enforcement sources stated Monday.
The most recent shady package deal arrived because the unlucky girl’s Riverside Boulevard residence Monday, sources stated, declining to explain its contents. The sufferer didn’t need to remark to The Publish when reached by cellphone.
The unwelcome consideration is seemingly coming from critics of Khalil, who led raucous anti-Israel protests at Columbia College in the course of the Israeli-Hamas conflict and is now in federal detention over his actions.
The campus rabble-rouser, who was pursing a graduate diploma on the Ivy League faculty, has labored for the controversial United Nations company for Palestinian refugees.
Khalil held a senior place on the UK workplace for Syria in Lebanon, too, in line with a number of experiences.
He was concerned with a British authorities’s Syria Chevening Program, which dishes out totally funded scholarships to overseas college students who “show potential to inspire.”
Khalil, a Syrian-born Palestinian who can be a citizen of Algeria, stopped working there roughly two years in the past, proper earlier than he relocated to the US in 2022 to enroll at Columbia, the place he turned a each day determine throughout weeks of antisemitic unrest on the Manhattan campus.
His lawyer — who doesn’t dwell on Riverside Boulevard — has petitioned for him to be launched.
