Released by a Jewish Judge Pro-Hamas protester Mahmoud Khalil says he’ll keep advocating for Palestine, while bashing US government

 Anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil said he plans to continue his pro-Palestinian advocacy and bashed the US government upon landing in New Jersey Saturday on his way home to New York City after being held in a Louisiana detention facility for three months.

“I just want to go back and just continue the work that I was already doing, advocating for Palestinian rights – speech that should actually be celebrated rather than punished, as this administration wants to do,” Khalil said Saturday at a press conference at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Khalil, 30, was arrested by federal immigration authorities on March 8 and spent 104 days at the rural detention center as the Trump administration fought to deport the Syrian-born permanent resident.

The administration said Khalil engaged in activities “aligned to Hamas,” the Palestinian terrorist group responsible for the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, while he was studying at Columbia.

“The US government is funding this genocide, and Columbia University is investing in this genocide,” Khalil said Saturday. “This is what I was protesting. This is what I will continue to protest with everyone of you. Not only if they threaten me with detention, even if they would kill me, I would still speak up for Palestine.”

He also vowed to keep fighting for the rights of the “incredible men” he left behind in the Louisiana immigration facility.

Khalil was joined at Newark by his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, 28, their son, who was born during his detainment, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

“Because Mahmoud Khalil is an advocate for Palestinian human rights, he has been accused, baselessly, of horrific allegations, simply because the Trump administration and our overall establishment disagrees with his political speech,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters.

“We will continue to resist the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in,” she added.

Khalil was released on bail Friday after New Jersey US District Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled Friday that the government had “clearly not met” the standards for detention.

Farbiarz said it was “highly, highly unusual” for the government to continue detaining a legal resident who was unlikely to flee and hadn’t been accused of violence.

Khalil was released on conditions including the surrender of his passport and travel restrictions limiting him to New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Washington, DC, and Louisiana, where his immigration proceedings will continue, according to reports.

Khalil’s lawyers on Saturday called the decision a “significant and important victory.”