High profile pro-Palestinian activist Khaled Beydoun kicked out of Australia

High profile pro-Palestinian activist and American law professor Khaled Beydoun has been kicked out of Australia after his visa was revoked.

An American law professor who said October 7 is a day of “considerable celebration” at a pro-Palestinian rally on the eve of the anniversary of the terrorist attack on Israel has had his visa revoked by the government.

Arizona State university associate professor Khaled Beydoun was reportedly sent home after being told his visa was going to be cancelled by the Department of Home Affairs.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has since officially revoked Beydoun’s visa, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Beydoun, who has a following of more than 2.5 million people on Instagram, told a Sydney rally on the anniversary of Hamas’ massacre in Israel that the day was “not fully a day of mourning” but also a “good day” because public awareness of the Palestinians’ plight had increased in the past year.

Mr Burke said later that day he had ordered a check on the academic’s visa as soon as he heard the remarks.

Beydoun made the comments outside of western Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque, which was organised by a group with links to Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

“Today is not fully a day of mourning, today is also a day that marks considerable celebration, considerable progress and considerable privilege,” he said at the protest.

“I want to talk about some good things because it’s a good day, and we’ve got to mark some of the good news that comes about that we often times neglect.

“One thing that has taken place over the course of this past year that’s been unprecedented, that’s been transformative in many respects, is that the level of global literacy around what is taking place in Palestine has exponentially risen.”

Former ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf had interviewed Beydoun in her new podcast shortly before his controversial statements.

He claimed that Israel’s expansion of the war into Lebanon illustrated a “very militant Zionism trying to claim as much land as possible.”

The move by the Department of Home Affairs comes after a widespread rebuke by politicians on every spectrum about the brandishing of Hezbollah flags on the streets of Melbourne and Sydney, which led to a special AFP investigation to be established.