US universities are aiming for proto-paplestine students with suspensions, campus prohibition | News Donald Trump
The University of Chicago is not the only campus to pronounce sharp penalties to student protesters.
At the University of Minnesota, seven students face up to two and a half years of suspension and $ 5,000 alleged damage, months after being arrested during October.
Students occupied the building at the campus that were renamed “Halimy Hall“, After a 19-year-old Palestinian tictic personality killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza last year.
In January, 11 students at the University of New York were published by a one -year suspension after they set up a non -violent sitting at the library last December.
The university also declared two members of the Faculty of “Personae Non Gratae” for joining the session, which prevents them from approaching certain school buildings.
Penalties with big hands came as universities rushed to bring stricter rules for campus protests after last year’s campsite, including the restrictions of the tent use and time limitations on demonstrations at some universities.
Rifqa Falaneh, associate in Palestine Legal, advocate group that defends itself Pro-Palestinian speechHe says the cumulative effect is the muffle of the protest.
“There are so many people who say the protests have died, but I would say that students respond to what the university administration imposed on them,” Falaneh says.
“We see so many new policies set up, so many different limitations that limit the ability to speak on campuses.”
But the pressure on the universities that the campus protests fall from the highest levels of government.
In January, President Donald Trump, a Republican, swore to a second term. Less than two weeks later, on January 29, he signed an executive order in which a wave of vicious anti -Semitic discrimination, vandalism and violence was unprecedented at the US campuses on campuses.
In the accompanying fact, Trump has pledged to take “direct actions” for “exploring and punishing anti-Jewish racism in left-wing, anti-American faculties and universities”, including the cancellation of student visas.
“Come in 2025, we will find you and we will deport you,” Trump said, addressing foreign students involved in protests. “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.”
Palestine Legal began to train lawyers volunteering to help students move to the maze of university policies and procedures conducted in recent months.
But Falaneh notes that high role and serious penalties are already explaining the muffled response to Trump’s policies, and few protests in the campus have erupted against his immigration breakthrough or attack on the US education system.
“The schools tried so hard to silence the pupils for Palestine, and inadvertently the students’ speech also silenced when it came to vocalizing the opposition to Trump,” says Falaneh. “Somehow he bites them back.”
