Notably, his short time at the controversial humanitarian agency overlapped with Hamas’s massacre on October 7, 2023.

The Justice Department accused Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University who was detained by the Trump administration and had his visa revoked, of hiding his association with a controversial United Nations agency.

The U.S. government has alleged that Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian relief agency in his visa application.