US law professor Khaled Beydoun left the country after being told his visa status was under consideration, government source confirms
The US law professor who told a pro-Palestine rally on 7 October that the first anniversary of Hamas’s attack onAn Australian government source confirmed Khaled Beydoun, an associate professor in law at Arizona State University, had left the country last week after being informed his visa status was under consideration by the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, after the remarks.
“At 8.30pm they confirmed this man is traveling on a visa. I immediately asked them to prepare a brief so I can consider his visa status,” he said in a statement. The opposition home affairs spokesperson, James Paterson, said Beydoun’s visa should never have been approved in the first place. “But he did prove the point that many of us are making in the lead-up to the rallies on Monday, which is that the only reason you would organise a pro-Palestinian protest on Monday, is if you thought it was worthy of celebration,” he told Sky News.“There is a higher level of scrutiny if anyone is on a visa. I have made clear from day one that I will consider refusing and cancelling visas for anyone who seeks to incite discord in Australia,” Burke said in September.
In an interview on the news podcast The Briefing days after his remarks, Beydoun reportedly explained to the host the comments had been taken out of context.
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