Jewish community responds to Trump executive order vowing to deport pro-Hamas activists with student visas

Following an explosion of antisemitism successful the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas panic onslaught connected Israel, President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid (EO) connected Wednesday that ordered instrumentality enforcement to ace down connected antisemitism connected assemblage campuses, including removing pro-Hamas activists with pupil visas from the country. 

"It shall beryllium the argumentation of the United States to combat anti-Semitism vigorously, utilizing each disposable and due ineligible tools, to prosecute, remove, oregon different clasp to relationship the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence," the EO reads. 

The directive gives each national agencies a 60-day model to place civilian and transgression authorities disposable to combat antisemitism and deport anti-Jewish activists who broke immoderate laws. 

The EO expands connected a directive that Trump implemented during his archetypal medication that was efficaciously nullified by the Biden administration. The EO cites "an unprecedented question of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and unit against our citizens, particularly successful our schools and connected our campuses" successful which Jewish students person faced discrimination, denial of entree to field communal areas and facilities, intimidation, harassment, arsenic good arsenic carnal threats and assault.

Pro-Palestinian astatine a protestation encampment connected the field of Columbia University connected April 29, 2024, successful New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

In response, Brandy Shufutinsky, the manager of acquisition and assemblage engagement with the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, said that portion escaped code is simply a cardinal close of Americans, immoderate fell down that close erstwhile they prosecute successful discriminatory and convulsive behavior. 

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"One’s escaped code does not springiness them licence to endanger and harass others," Shufutinsky said. "Individuals who are successful our state by invitation should person that invitation rescinded erstwhile they prosecute successful behaviors that interruption the civilian rights of our citizens."

Sarah Stern, laminitis and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), echoed a akin sentiment, questioning wherefore the U.S. would let overseas students into the state and connected assemblage campuses erstwhile they enactment overseas violent organizations.  

"As truthful overmuch of the incitement against Jewish students connected our nation’s campuses has originated from foreign, extracurricular provocateurs, this measurement goes a agelong mode towards returning sanity and decency to our nation’s assemblage campuses," Stern said to Fox News Digital.  

Israeli flags were planted connected the tract of the Harvard Divinity School arsenic field protests continue.  (Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

"There has been an implicit tsunami of antisemitism successful the US, peculiarly since October 7th," she added. "That is wherefore EMET powerfully supports President Trump's Executive Order, which volition assistance you instrumentality sanity to our assemblage campuses."

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Rabbi Steven Burg, CEO of the Jewish acquisition non-profit Aish, told Fox News Digital that arsenic an American Jew and a rabbi who works intimately with students connected assemblage campuses, helium has been profoundly acrophobic astir the emergence of antisemitism and pro-Hamas sentiment astatine U.S. acquisition institutions implicit the past 16 months. 

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"There is simply a precise existent menace posed to U.S. colleges by those who enactment violent organizations similar Hamas," helium said. "Many Jewish students person been surviving successful fearfulness for much than a year. Many person travel to carnal harm and suffered violence, intimidation, threats, alienation, and assertive protests by those who came to the United States nether the guise of receiving an education."

Burg believes that foreigners who perpetrate hatred against immoderate radical successful America should suffer their quality to survey successful the U.S. arsenic specified actions are antithetical to American values. 

Pro-Palestinian protesters nexus arms and instrumentality backmost a pupil encampment connected the field of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology connected Monday May 6, 2024, successful Cambridge, Mass.  (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc)

"Students should absorption connected getting an acquisition to marque the satellite a amended place," helium said. "They should not beryllium focusing connected terrorizing different students. The projected enactment to deport overseas students who participated successful pro-Hamas protests sends a wide connection that America volition not tolerate the dispersed of hatred and unit against Jewish students, oregon anyone else," helium told Fox News Digital.

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House Republicans released a study past period that urged the national authorities to bash much to combat antisemitism, including by conditioning national assistance to colleges to incentivize much strict policies against anti-Jewish bias, the New York Post reported. The study came aft Columbia University and different large schools were big to anti-Israel encampments connected campus, wherever galore antisemitic incidents were reported aft Oct. 7. 

Republicans accused Biden's State Department and Department of Homeland Security of stonewalling requests for the fig of visa holders among those anti-Israel agitators, the GOP study said, according to the Post.

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Fox News' Chris Pandolfo and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.