From Fox News: The Columbia University student activist who was recently ordered released from ICE custody was interviewed by the FBI in 2015 after allegedly telling a gun shop owner that “I like to kill Jews.”
The activist, Mohsen Mahdawi, visited the gun store in the summer of 2015 and inquired about various firearms while in conversation with the store’s owner, according to court documents submitted by federal authorities last month. The federal government is appealing Mahdawi’s release as of Thursday.
“The owner told Windsor, Vermont police officers that Mr. Mahdawi had visited his store twice, expressing an interest in learning more about firearms and buying a sniper rifle and an automatic weapon and that he ‘had considerable firearm experience and used to build modified 9mm submachine guns to kill Jews while he was in Palestine,’” the document reads.
“”The store owner stated that Mr. Mahdawi took photos of the store and its merchandise. The store owner gave the police the name of a fellow gun enthusiast who stated that he had a similar conversation with Mr. Mahdawi at the ‘Precision Museum’ in Windsor,” the document continues. “During that conversation, Mr. Mahdawi allegedly told the enthusiast, ‘I like to kill Jews.’”
When the FBI interviewed Mahdawi, he reportedly admitted he made the trips to the gun store and gun museum, but denied making anti-semitic comments. He claims that he now practices Buddhism.
The report explains that Mahdawi, 34, was raised in the West Bank and has now lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union at Columbia after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack. Another co-founder of the group is Mahmoud Khalil, also a pro-Palestinian activist still currently being held in custody.
After being released by U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford on Wednesday, Mahdawi, wearing a Palestinian scarf, defiantly declared before a group of Palestine flag-waving supporters, “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”
BREAKING: According to Trump court filings, Mohsen Mahdawi told a Vermont gun store owner he had “extensive firearm experience” and used it “to kill Jews in Palestine.”
This is who an activist judge just released—and who Democrats are turning into a poster child. pic.twitter.com/YaOVXTCpkW
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 1, 2025
The judge downplayed this evidence because the FBI investigated and didn’t charge him, but unless he had existing plans for violence, it’s not clear what crime he committed. But it’s crazy that the FBI didn’t refer him to ICE for deportation.
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) May 1, 2025
His ex-wife also surrendered guns to police for safekeeping during their divorce. pic.twitter.com/MsMkexCwT4
— Stardust (@SublimeSeven) May 1, 2025
🚨Big breaking: Mohsen Mahdawi said he “liked to kill Jews in Palestine”🚨
According to court filings from the Trump admin, Mahdawi told the owner of a Vermont gun store that he “had considerable firearm experience” and that he used them “to kill Jews while he was in Palestine” pic.twitter.com/7rsqFLdwQr
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 1, 2025
READ MORE and VIEW THE FULL COURT DOCUMENT from Fox News.
Columbia student activist interviewed by FBI for allegedly saying ‘I like to kill Jews’: court docs https://t.co/Sg2kSnhbGD
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 1, 2025
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