President Donald Trump’s Jan. 30 govt order to cancel the coed visas of Hamas sympathizers on faculty campuses is being met with resistance.
The editorial board on the Exponent, Purdue College’s scholar newspaper, stated it “refuses to be social gathering to such a blatant violation of the First Modification rights of doubtless tons of of Purdue college students.”
“That’s why, to protect the identities of pro-Palestinian students, we are removing the names, images and likenesses of every such student from our website published since Oct. 7, 2023,” the editorial board wrote on Feb. 3. “Further, in future coverage, no such information or images will be published online or in print by the Exponent — no exceptions — until this autocratic attack on free speech is overturned.”
Govt Order 13899 goals to fight the “unprecedented wave of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and violence against our citizens, especially in our schools and on our campuses” since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas first attacked Israel, sparking the start of a 15-month warfare that has left tens of hundreds of individuals useless.
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The editorial board on the Exponent, Purdue College’s scholar newspaper, stated it “refuses to be party to such a blatant violation of the First Amendment rights of potentially hundreds of Purdue students.” (Michael Hickey)
“To all of the resident aliens who joined within the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on discover: come 2025, we’ll discover you, and we’ll deport you,” the president stated in a Jan. 30 reality sheet on the manager order. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”
“I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses.”
Hamas is a chosen terrorist group that the Division of Nationwide Intelligence (DNI) describes as “the largest and most capable militant group in the Palestinian territories and one of the territories’ two major political parties.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reply questions throughout a joint press convention within the East Room on the White Home in Washington, Feb. 4, 2025. ( Reuters/Leah Millis)
“HAMAS is committed to armed resistance against Israel and to the creation of a Palestinian state, and the group has engaged in several rounds of violent conflict with Israel,” in line with DNI. “The most recent began on 7 October 2023, when HAMAS launched a massive surprise attack against Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people.”
The Exponent’s editorial board stated it expects “no distinction” to be made between “‘pro-jihadist’ and pro-Palestinian” in relation to revoking scholar visas.
“Anti-war can only now mean ‘pro-Hamas,’” the coed board wrote.
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An anti-Israel agitator on Stanford College’s campus on Friday, April 26, 2024. (Obtained by Fox Information Digital)
“Such twisting of language to be used as a weapon is contrary to the First Amendment, which gives the Exponent its right to exist just as much as it gives the right to students to protest as they see fit. It is the opinion of the Exponent that standing back while our website is potentially used to identify the state’s enemies would be directly against those principles,” the board continued.
The board added that pro-Palestine protests at Purdue will proceed into 2025, however the college students they interview at protests “will no longer have their identities published.”
A professional-Palestinian demonstrator holds a flag on the rooftop of Hamilton Corridor at Columbia College in New York, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
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Hamas and Israel’s latest ceasefire deal, which paused the lethal warfare, has led Hamas to launch 10 Israeli hostages and 5 Thai nationals kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, in alternate for Palestinian prisoners and elevated humanitarian help into Gaza. Six Individuals stay in Gaza.
Greater than 46,000 Palestinians died within the warfare, half of whom are believed to be ladies and youngsters, although that quantity could possibly be increased, in line with the Palestinian Well being Ministry. Greater than 90% of the roughly two million Palestinians residing in Gaza had been displaced through the warfare.
Fox Information Digital’s Efrat Lachter and The Related Press contributed to this report.
