President Donald Trump’s executive order of January 30 to cancel the student visa from Hamas sympathizers at university campuses Resistance is being investigated.
The editors of the exponent, the student newspaper of Purdue University, said that “refuses to be a party to such a flagrant violation of the First amendment Rights of potentially hundreds of purdue students. “
“That is why we, in order to protect the identity of Pro-Palestinian students, remove the names, images and similarities of every such student from our website that have been published since 7 October 2023,” the editors wrote on 3 February. “In future coverage, such information or images are not published online or are printed by the exponent – no exceptions – until this autocratic attack on freedom of expression is destroyed.”
Executive Order 13899 aims to fight the “unprecedented wave of common anti -Semitic discrimination, vandalism and violence against our citizens, especially at our schools and on our campuses” since 7 October 2023, when Hamas attacked for the first time when he fell Israel , at the beginning of the beginning, of a 15 -month war that tens of thousands of people have left dead.
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The editors of the exponent, the student newspaper of Purdue University, said that “refuses to be a party to such a flagrant violation of the first change rights of possible hundreds of Purdue students.” (Michael Hickey)
“To all resident aliens who participated in the pro-jihadist protests, We have informed you: come in 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you: “The president said in a facts of 30 January in the executive order.” I will also quickly cancel the student visa of all Hamas sympathizers, which are infected with radicalism like never before. “
“I will also quickly cancel the student visa of all Hamas sympathizers at university campuses.”
Hamas is a designated terrorist organization That the Department of National Intelligence (DNI) describes as “the largest and most capable militant group in the Palestinian territories and one of the two major political parties of the areas.”
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US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answer questions during a joint press conference in the East Room in the White House in Washington, February 4, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
“Hamas is dedicated to armed resistance to Israel and to the establishment of a Palestinian state, and the group has entered into several rounds of violent conflict with Israel,” said DNI. “The most recent started on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a huge surprise attack on Israel, killing nearly 1200 people.”
The editors of the exponent said that “no distinction” will be made between “pro-jihadist” and pro-Palestinian “when it comes to withdrawing student visa.
“Anti-war can now only mean ‘Pro-Hamas’,” the student board wrote.
An anti-Israeli agitator on the Stanford University campus on Friday 26 April 2024. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
“Such a rippling of language that should be used as a weapon is contrary to the first amendment, which gives the exponent his right to the right to exist if it gives the right to protest students if they consider it necessary. It is the opinion of The exponent that reversed while our website may be used to identify the enemies of the state would be directly against those principles, “the board went on.
The board added that Pro-Palestine protests will continue at Purdue in 2025, but the students who interview them during protests “will no longer publish their identity.”
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator has a flag on the roof of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York, on Tuesday 30 April 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty images)
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The recent Stakes -the -‘s -grant of Hamas and Israel, who paved the deadly war, has led Hamas to release 10 Israeli hostages and five Thai subjects on October 7, 2023, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and raised humanitarian aid in Gaza. Six Americans stay In Gaza.
More than 46,000 Palestinians died in the war, half of whom are considered women and children, although that number could be higher, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. More than 90% of the approximately two million Palestinians who live in Gaza were displaced during the war.
Ephrat Lachter and The Associated Press from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
