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Representative of Palestine Mahmoud Khalil has filed a lawsuit against the administration of the President of the United States Donald Trump and three secret groups, alleging a joint conspiracy to shoot him and deport him.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in United States District Court in Manhattan, seeks damages from defendants including the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, the pro-Israel groups Betar and Canary Mission, and several Trump administration officials.
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The lawsuit said that the Heritage Foundation had created a “plan”, called Project Esthereliminating the growing Palestinian advocacy movement in the US by targeting prominent non-citizens and confusing Palestinian advocacy with anti-Semitic sentiments.
The agency relied on groups like Betar, a far-right Zionist youth group, and the Canary Mission, which has been anonymously monitoring Palestinian proxies, to find out who to target, Khalil’s legal team charged.
The case also highlighted the work of White House adviser Stephen Miller and the Heritage Foundation before Trump took office in January 2025.
Among the opponents, they listed Miller, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former and current secretaries of homeland security, Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin, and attorney general Todd Blanche.
The order also seeks to prevent any alleged crime from being used to justify Khalil’s deportation.
“This case is more than what happened to me,” Khalil said at a news conference outside federal court on Tuesday.
“It’s about exposing a group of organizations, politicians, and organizations that work together to destroy the deal with Palestine and make an example of those who refuse to remain silent,” he said.
A US green card holder who was a student of Palestinian rights activists at Columbia University, Khalil was arrested on March 8, 2025, by federal agents and detained for 104 days in a Louisiana immigration detention center.
He has since fought his deportation in federal and immigration courts.
A federal judge in New Jersey ordered his release in June 2025, but the Trump administration filed a successful appeal that denied federal court jurisdiction over the case.
A federal judge stayed the case, which is expected to reach the Supreme Court, to prevent the Trump administration from arresting or deporting Khalil while the case progresses.
Khalil’s legal team has also fought efforts to deport him through immigration court, which is under the executive branch. They have released evidence that the process was carried out in haste and have asked the immigration appeals court to review the case.
Baher Azmy, who is the legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and one of Khalil’s lawyers, said: “We are still fighting in the state courts and in the immigration courts.
For its part, the White House again He also said that Khalil had lied to himself when he asked to move. Trump administration officials say they failed to disclose their past dealings with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
Khalil’s legal team has rejected the claim, with UNRWA saying he was never on the organization’s payroll and only briefly joined as a student.
“Those who lie to the government to enter the United States will face justice,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in response to the new charges.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Khalil Azmy’s lawyer criticized the “private partnership to select non-citizen students who may be vulnerable to immigration laws”.
He also cited the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which makes it a crime for the government to deny a person “any right, privilege, security, or protection, enumerated in the Constitution”. The law was passed in response to the Ku Klux Klan’s alleged abuse of formerly enslaved black men and women.
“This case is about the entire United States government colluding in the unlawful use of the government’s repressive powers to target and imprison a person,” Azmy said.
