I'd seen the Middle East Eye article but given what I've learned about them, I believe from one of your posts under a video I posted about Syria, I thought it was likely bad faith but perhaps not. It seems concrete that he was in charge of these scholarships but the rest of it is "someone told me they felt he was this way..." which is not exactly concrete.

The Telegraph has reported he was empoyed as "local embassy staff" and not by the Foreign Office:

https://archive.ph/2025.03.13-150030/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/11/pro-palestinian-student-detained-ex-british-embassy-worker/

"...led an educational program that helped Arab students get scholarships and a masters degree in the UK.

He was probably doing paperwork for students all day, translating, helping people with visas and applications etc and you’re portraying him the backbone of UK’s Syria foreign policy."

AS the MEEye article also says:

"It [the Chevening scholarship] brings the brightest students from around the world to UK universities. Mahmoud ran its Syria programme and interviewed hundreds, if not thousands, of applicants on behalf of the British government."

Khalil was also a "local staff political officer", responsible for providing the "contextual understanding and linguistic skills to translate meetings," Waller recalled.

The second paragraph answers Craig's query as to why he might have needed clearance and what he was spending the rest of his time doing. Sure, cover story and all that, but he was 23 and the only thing he was confirmed as being involved in has very limited geo-political influence. Are we supposed to be believe this (then) 23 year old was masterminding the overthrow of Assad because of his completely non-existent intelligence background?

All of this is a long way from "...a 'career' in collaboration against Palestinians" and none of it changes the content of the Mint Press article re: the zionist spook influence nor the disgusting, and most likely illegal/unconstitutional nature of his arrest and attempted deportation.