GOP vows to help Trump administration crack down on college campus antisemitism

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The latest chapter of the college campus crackdown is manifesting itself in videos that are now going viral.

FILE - Students gather at a pro-Palestinian student encampment on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Friday, May 3, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. of Tufts Graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk detained by ICE agents on the street, as she was going out to meet her friends.

Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder married to a U.S. citizen and former Columbia grad student who initially came to the country on a student Visa.by the State Department to use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of any foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas." The Senate is asking the Biden Administration, if they come across anyone who's here, a foreign National on a Visa who supports Hamas, that person's Visa should be cancelled and they should be removed from the country," he said during an At least 60 colleges were already put on notice of antisemitism investigations, with threats to pull funding, as it already did at Columbia University, which University officials said they would ban face masks on campus, allow campus security officers to remove or arrest individuals, and would also make major changes to who oversees the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies department and the Center for Palestine Studies.Universities have been put on notice. Failing to protect a student civil rights will no longer be tolerated. If universities refused to follow the law to address discrimination on campus and to support Jewish students, then they should not expect the support of the federal taxpayer," Sen Bill Cassidy, a Republican who represents Louisiana, who also serves as the committee's chairman, said Thursday during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions “Students have been physically threatened, spat upon, had their mezuzahs ripped from their dorm door, even faced academic retaliation for their Jewish identity," said Rabbi Levi Shemtov, who is the executive vice president of Meanwhile, some Progressive lawmakers sounded alarm bells about students being labeled as "pro-terrorist" for protesting a war that’s killed more than 50,000 people. According to the United Nations, "According to international law and in my view, what Netanyahu has done is criminal. To attack the Netanyahu government for their outrageous activities in Gaza does not make one an anti-Semite," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independant who represents Vermont.certain colleges and universities they deem to be "pro Hamas" from being allowed to accept any foreign students. Those who attend with student visas, are a major source of revenue, so blocking them could be detrimental.

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