After one explosion of anti -Semitism In the aftermath of the Hamas Terror attack on Israel of 7 October, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) on Wednesday who ordered the police to combat anti-Semitism at university campuses, including the removal of pro-hams activists with Studentvisa The country.
“It is the policy of the United States to strongly combat anti -Semitism, using all available and suitable legal aids, to prosecute, remove or otherwise keep the perpetrators of illegal anti -Semitic intimidation and violence,” ” The EO reads.
The guideline Gives all federal agencies a 60-day window to identify civil and criminal authorities that are available to combat anti-Semitism and to deport anti-Jewish activists who have violated laws.
The EO is expanding a guideline that Trump has implemented during his first administration that was effectively canceled by the BIDEN administration. The EO quotes “an unprecedented wave of despicable anti -Semitic discrimination, vandalism and violence against our citizens, especially at our schools and on our campuses” in which Jewish students are confronted, intimidation, as well as physical threats and abuse.
Pro-Palestijns during a protest lamp on the COLUMBIA University campus on April 29, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty images)
In response, Brandy Shufutinsky, the director of education and community involvement at the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, said that although free expression is a fundamental right to Americans, some hide behind that right when they enter into discriminatory and violent behavior.
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“A person’s free speech does not give them a license to threaten and bother others,” said Shufutinsky. “Persons who are invited in our country must have withdrawn that invitation when they are concerned with behaviors that violate the civil rights of our citizens.”
Sarah Stern, founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), repeated a similar sentiment and wondered why the US would allow foreign students in the country and at university campuses when they support foreign terrorist organizations.
“Since so much of the start against Jewish students on the campuses of our nation comes from foreign, outside the provocateurs, this step goes a long way to recurring common sense and decency to the university campuses of our nation,” said Stern To Fox News Digital .
Israeli flags were planted on the lawn of the Harvard Divinity School while the campus protests continue. (Lane Turner/The Boston Globe Via Getty Images)
“There has been an absolute tsunami of anti -Semitism in the US, especially since October 7,” she added. “That is why Emet strongly supports the executive Order of President Trump, which will help you to give back common sense to our university camps.”
Rabbi Steven Burg, CEO of the Jewish educational non-profit Aish, told Fox News Digital that as an American Jew and a rabbi who works closely with students at university campuses, he has been deeply concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism and Pro-Hamas Sentiment At American educational institutions in the past 16 months.
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“There is a very real threat to our colleges by those who support terrorist organizations such as Hamas,” he said. “Many Jewish students have been living in fear for more than a year. Many have become physical injury and have violence, intimidation, threats, alienation and aggressive protests by those who came to the United States came to the United States under the guise of training. “
Burg is of the opinion that foreigners who hate a group in America, to lose their ability to study in the US, because such actions are opposed to American values.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators connect weapons and take a student camp back on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday 6 May 2024 in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steve Leblanc)
“Students must concentrate on getting a course to make the world a better place,” he said. “They should not concentrate on terrorizing other students. The proposed action to deport foreign students who participated in Pro-Hamas protests sends a clear message that America will not spread the spread of hatred and violence against Jewish students or someone else Tolerating, “said Fox News Digital.
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House Republicans released a report last month that encouraged the federal government to do more to combat anti-Semitism, including by conditioning federal help to colleges to stimulate a strict policy against anti-Jewish bias, The New York Post reported. The report came after the Columbia University and other large schools hosted anti-Israel camps on campus, where countless anti-Semitic incidents were reported after 7 October.
Republicans accused Biden’s State Department and Department of Homeland Security of Stonewalling requests for the number of visa holders among those anti-Israeli agitators, according to the GOP report, according to the function.
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Fox News’ Chris Pandolfo and Greg Wehner have contributed to this report.
