India, April 6 -- Mahmoud Khalil compared Columbia University's administration to Nazi collaborators in an incendiary op-ed published by the school newspaper. The graduate student's commentary was dictated from ICE custody in Louisiana, the New York Post reported. In the piece, he accused Columbia of laying the "groundwork for my abduction" and also alleged that the Morningside Heights institution suppressed "student dissent under the auspices of combating antisemitism."'

"The situation is oddly reminiscent of when I fled the brutality of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria and sought refuge in Lebanon," Khalil said in the letter published in the Columbia Daily Spectator. He explicitly slammed University President Minouche Shafik, former i...