‘Mahmoud Khalil, Who Are You?’

Khalil’s identity is substantially more complicated than the media make it appear, and the reality goes to the roots of the worldwide jihad. If I heard and read right, the alleged leader of the antisemitic mobs at Columbia Mahmoud Khalil was born in Syria, holds an Algerian passport, and calls himself a “Palestinian.” Which is it? I get the “Algerian passport” part. Possibly the longest chapter in my long book on the invention of the “Palestinians” is on the pivotal role of Algeria in inventing this antisemitic lie. Before the war in Vietnam in the 1960s became an international cause...