Proponents warn Trump’s threat to deport the pro-Palestinian students harm everyone | News Donald Trump

New York, United States – Last week, the President of the United States Donald Trump posted a message aimed at student protesters who participated in last year’s Pro-Palestinian demonstration.

It was a warning. And was particularly directed toward immigrants among protesters.

“To all the residents of the aliens who joined the pro-Jihadist protests, we informed you: Come in 2025, we will find you and we will deport you,” Trump was quoted in the White House in the White House a sheet with facts.

“I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers at the college campuses, who have been infected with radicalism as never before.”

The statement was the latest sign that the relegation from the protest was far from the end. If nothing else, under Trump’s second mandate, the advocates of free speech and supporters of Palestinian rights are calculated for a continuous suppression of university activists who led demonstrations.

“Legal questions about the deployment of students for a speech that would otherwise be protected in the United States are complicated,” said Sarah McLaughlin, a scientist at the individual rights and expression (fire) foundation, Al Jazeera said.

“But the ethical question is clear: do we want the deportation to be a consequence of expressing political attitudes, an unwavering white house?”

Plan ‘removal’ of foreign students

Trump’s statements have appeared in a new Executive commandSigned on January 29. He ran the way to the deportation of foreign students on behalf of the fight against anti -Semitism in the campus.

AND order It promises “direct action” for “processing, removal, or otherwise staying on the perpetrators of illegal anti -Semitic harassment and violence.”

In order to achieve this goal, the Minister of Education is called to provide a list of court cases involving anti -Semitism at faculties, universities and schools who teach kindergarten up to 12th grade.

The command also requires that all higher education institutions are referred to how to “monitor and report the activities of alien students and staff” that are relevant to the thrust of anti -Semitism.

If it is justified, the government may then initiate “actions to remove such foreigners.”

The command comes in response to what Trump’s administration calls “an explosion of anti -Semitism on our campuses and our streets from October 7, 2023”. On that day, fighters from the Palestinian armed group Hamas attacked South Israel, killing about 1,139 people.

Israel responded with war. 15 months of Israeli bombs fell on the Palestinian Gaza enclave, while his troops were leveled by hospitals, schools and fourth.

Now that there is a fragile truce, officials hope to get a more accurate picture of the mortal side, which Currently sitting on 62,000Many dead are Palestinian women and children.

The United Nations experts compared the Israeli warfare methods with genocide, and concern about human rights encouraged thousands of students at colleges and universities to gather in protest.

Some set up camps to deny Israel’s procedures. Others have been selected to demand that their universities be separated from Israeli companies and other companies that supported the war.

But although the protests were largely calm, some expressed discomfort over the public criticisms of Israel, a key American ally. Others have accused protesters for anti -Semitism, although the protest leaders denied such allegations.

Under the pressure of donors and legislators, many universities have broken through the Pro-Palestinian activities on campuses. As many as 3,000 student protesters were arrested at the height of the 2024 protest movement.

‘Censors and sequins’

In the meantime, the issues of anti -Semitism in the protest movement reached the highest level of government, and then President Joe Biden pledged to take measures.

The movement also took place on the background of the fierce American presidential season, and Trump used the question as part of his campaign.

The Washington Post reported in May that he told the donors that he would take student protesters and “throw them out of the country.”

Later, in July, Republicans published a party platform This reflected a similar rhetoric. One of his promises was to “deport the pro-hama radical and repeat our faculty campuses safe and patriotic.”

Trump even threatened to withdraw funding and accreditation from universities that failed to attribute enough protesters.

Smoke Khalidi – Director of Palestine Legal, a group that protects the rights of Palestinian advocates in the US – in – invited Trump’s command last week “last on the growing list of dangerous, authoritarian measures aimed at implementing ideological giving at schools trying to scare students in silence.”

She believes that Trump’s command violates the first amendment of the American Constitution, which protects freedom of speech and the right to mount. And she claims that the danger extends beyond the recent propalastine movement.

“The implications of this executive order go beyond the Palestine movement,” Khalida said.

“It encourages Government agencies to find ways to target any disagreement from Trump’s agenda and aims to enroll universities for themselves as its censors and muzzles.”

Questions about free speech

Like others Executive actions Trump has rushed to sign during the first days of his second term, it is expected that the order 29 on January 29 will face legal challenges.

Carrie Decell, a senior staff lawyer at the Institute for the First Amendment Knight at Columbia University, explained that the protection of the first amendment relates to “all in the United States”, regardless of the citizenship or the status of a visa.

“The deportation of non-assembled on the basis of their political speech would be unconstitutional,” she wrote in a statement.

However, McLAughlin, a free speech advocate, pointed out that the Federal Government continues to “retain significant powers on the presence of foreign nationals in the country.”

This could result in a cooled effect: by damping vulnerable student protesters who rely on visas or other immigration documents in order to remain in the United States.

“This command, together with the accompanying threat of President Trump, deports what he considers” Hamas’s sympathizers, “will suggest international students that the rights promised to the campuses of our country are not their enjoyment,” said McLaughlin.

“This is a loss for these students, whose speech is likely to be cooled, and for their peers who will be deprived of their abilities to hear, participate and challenge these views.”

In a statement for the free speech organization Pen American, Kristen Shahverdian said Trump’s command “reminiscent of McCarthyism”, a period of history when the US government sought to eradicate and be ostricate people who considered “subversive”.

“Although the goal of this executive order in the fight against anti -Semitism, instead significantly risks the creation of an authoritarian army of informants who will be authorized to target international students, teachers and staff for their views,” she explained.

“This command will make a little further dialogue and understanding in the campus or fight against bigoticism. Instead, it will further aggravate the climate of fear and distrust.”

Fight against anti -Semitism

Not only does the executive order as raises free speech, but critics also questioned whether Trump’s Directives would actually achieve its specified goal of fighting anti -Semitism.

In a statementBen Olinsky, an associate at the American Progress Center, accused Trump’s administration for weapons of anti -Semitism “for political profit”.

“This does nothing to make Jewish students or any other Americans safe from hatred or prevention of terrorism, which represent legitimate threats to US Jewish communities,” Olinsky wrote.

“Instead, it leaves education and dialogue as it attacks protected political speech. It is clear that Trump’s real goal is to silence the opponent’s voices. “

Although anti-Semitism reports have increased in the last year, so are the incidents of antimuscan and anti-Palestinian hatred.

From January to July 2024, the Council for US-Islamic Relations (Cair), the largest state of the Muslim Organization for Civic Rights, summed 4,951 complaints, which is 69 percent of the increase in the same period of the previous year.

In the midst of Trump’s executive order, the group denied the fact that these incidents were not considered at all.

“The command completely neglects the actual and documented incidents of anti-Palestinian and antimuscan violence against US students of pro-Israeli extremists,” Cair wrote in his statement.

The command also called “trying to smear many Jewish, Muslim, Palestinian and other students who protested together.”

Other critics, like Olicyy, claimed that if Trump seriously fights anti -Semitism, they would distance themselves from groups like the extremely right -wing proud boys.

“If Trump President really cares [about] A very real rise in the work of anti -Semitism, he would begin to shoot Elon male because he did what seemed like a Nazi greeting Last week, “Olinsky said.

“Repeated rejection of President Trump to condemn anti -Semitism when it comes to his supporters helps enable the worrying increase in anti -Semitism we see today.”