Mahmoud Khalil to speak at South by Southwest festival

Mahmoud Khalil to speak at South by Southwest festival

Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader Mahmoud Khalil is scheduled to speak at this week’s annual South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas. Khalil will participate in a conversation “on the cost of dissent,” with The Guardian editor Betsy Reed and Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center For Constitutional Rights who was a lawyer for Khalil in his deportation proceedings, on March 15, according to the SXSW schedule. The weeklo…