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Wary of Deportation, Elite Colleges Won't Expel Anti-Semitic Foreign Students
As anti-Israel protesters swarmed college campuses, MIT president Sally Kornbluth drew a line in the sand: Any student engaged in an unsanctioned protest would face expulsion.
On Nov. 9, students decided to try their luck and hold a "die-in" at a campus location that explicitly bars protests. Kornbluth said the demonstration got so heated that she feared it "could lead to violence," but she did not enforce her prohibition. Students involved in the protest simply received a "non-academic suspension," a slap on the wrist that allows them to continue attending class.
Kornbluth's about-face was an attempt to protect foreign students, for whom expulsion would mean deportation.
"Because we later heard serious concerns about collateral consequences for the students, such as visa issues," Kornbluth said in a statement, "we have decided, as an interim action, that the students who remained after the deadline will be suspended from non-academic campus activities."
There are roughly one million foreign-born students enrolled at American colleges and universities. At elite institutions like MIT, nearly a quarter of all students hail from another country. Keeping these students on campus is that one reason college administrators have opted not to punish students making anti-Semitic comments, even as Jewish students say they feel unsafe. The Washington Free Beacon could not find a single incident of a student suspended over a protest, even in cases where police made arrests.
Now, Republicans are calling on the Biden administration to revoke the visas of foreign students participating in protests deemed anti-Semitic by leaders of both parties.
"These students, many of whom could be guests in our country, are soliciting donations to benefit groups that want the complete destruction of Israel and the Jewish people," Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) told the Free Beacon. "In a normal world, colleges would punish students for supporting genocide, and our country would remove foreign nationals who support Hamas."
Rubio has pressed the State Department to suspend visas of foreign-born students who support Hamas or other Islamic terrorist organizations. The senator posted a letter from the agency on X, formerly known as Twitter, confirming that the Department of State "has broad authority … to revoke visas."
"We exercise the authority where there is information or evidence indicating a visa holder may be ineligible for a U.S. visa," the State Department said.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) earlier this month warned foreign students that they "don't have a right to be studying in the United States." State University System of Florida chancellor Ray Rodrigues last month ordered all Students for Justice in Palestine chapters in the state to be shut down. Students for Justice in Palestine has explicitly endorsed Islamic terrorists.
The inaction from college administrators comes as deep-pocketed alumni pledge to halt donations over the anti-Semitic climate on many campuses. Several billionaires and white-shoe law firms have said they will not hire any student who participates in pro-Hamas protests.
At Yale University, a traditional Mexican dance club held a fundraiser for "Palestinian anarchist fighters" who associate with Hamas, the school's paper reported. The club's presidents—two of whom were born in Mexico, the Free Beacon found—apologized for the fundraiser following on-campus pushback, telling club members that the event was a "substantial oversight" and instructing participants to make their social media accounts private.
Although the students violated the university's policy of fundraising for a non-charity, the school did nothing. Yale, which did not respond to a request for comment, did not issue a statement on the incident or appear to punish the students.
Concerns about the student visa system stretch back to the Cold War, when lawmakers worried Soviet spies could use the program to enter the country. Federal officials beefed up security standards after it was revealed that a perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was in the country on an expired student visa. Two individuals arrested in 2013 for their connection to the Boston Marathon bombing first entered the United States on student visas.
Today, concerns about the student visa program largely revolve around the threat of Chinese espionage. But the surge of anti-Israel protests has caused experts to raise yet another flag.
Jon Feere, a former senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, suggested that inaction could spell trouble for college administrators. The Department of Homeland Security, Feere said, "is tasked with certifying schools to enroll foreign students, and can deny certification for any valid and substantive reason."
"One would think that schools allowing foreign students to violate campus policies might be on the radar of DHS officials," he said. "It might be advisable for school administrators to hold foreign students accountable rather than risk losing their foreign student program altogether."
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Jewish USC Professor Barred from Campus; Targeted by Anti-Israel Activists with Doctored Video
University of Southern California (USC) economics professor John Strauss, who is Jewish, has been barred from campus because of a doctored video circulated by anti-Israel activists who claim he said all Palestinians should be killed.
In fact, as the full video (clumsily included here by an anti-Israel activist) shows, Strauss was referring specifically to the Hamas terrorist organization.
Video 1: ” … should be killed, and I hope they are.”
Video 2: ” You people are ignorant. Really ignorant. Hamas are murderers. That’s all they are. Every one of them should be killed, and I hope they are.”
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, and Muslim activists only cited the former video in pushing for USC to take against Strauss.
The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday:
As [Strauss’s] remarks raced across the internet, his condemnation of Hamas was often excised, leaving only his “hope” for “all” to be killed. Captions and comments online framed his demand for “every one” to be killed in myriad, at times deceptive, ways. One Instagram post shared to millions of users claimed falsely that Strauss told the students, “[I] hope you get killed….”
Within a day, an associate dean told Strauss that he was on paid administrative leave, barred from campus, and that he would no longer teach his undergraduates this semester.
Within the week, a petition demanding that USC fire Strauss for his “racist, xenophobic behavior” and comments that “promote and incite violence” had collected more than 6,500 signatures.
The UK Daily Mail noted:
Strauss said he was provoked by what he felt were anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiments overheard while walking to class.
‘I’m Jewish, I’m very pro-Israel,’ he told USC Annenberg Media. ‘And so I yelled out ‘Israel forever. Hamas are murderers.’
USC’s free speech policy states: “The legitimate expression of differing opinions and concerns, including unpopular, controversial or dissident viewpoints, is an essential element of the academic process.”
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Pressed To Address Anti-Semitic Sign Displayed at Campus Rally, Northwestern Law Dean Instead Denounces 'Doxing'
Hari Osofsky in email to students suggests those who film campus protests 'convey hate'
Jewish law students at Northwestern University last week asked their dean to condemn an anti-Semitic sign displayed at a campus rally. Instead, the dean sent an email to students that suggested those who film campus protesters are "convey[ing] hate" and "doxing."
During a Nov. 16 campus protest, anti-Israel students were filmed holding signs that accused Israel of genocide and said, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," a phrase that calls for the Jewish state's extinction. Jewish students went on to meet with Northwestern law school dean Hari Osofsky, a source told the Washington Free Beacon, urging her to issue a condemnation letter. While Osofsky did send students a Tuesday email addressing unacceptable "behavior at our Law School," that email condemned "doxing," not anti-Semitic signage.
"We need to collaborate to create a community that supports and welcomes everyone," the email said. "To do so, we must avoid expressing ourselves in ways that convey hate, denigrating others in person, on social media, and on email, and doxing."
Osofsky's email marks the latest incident of an elite American college failing to live up to its own standards on anti-Israel and anti-Semitic campus demonstrations.
Three days before the protest, on Nov. 13, Northwestern issued a statement that called on "all members of our community to use our collective voices to emphatically reject statements or banners that significant parts of our community interpret as promoting murder and genocide," including "flying flags associated with Hamas and banners with the slogan 'From the River to the Sea.'" After a student displayed such a banner, however, Osofsky declined to mention the sign, even as she pledged to support "anyone needing assistance" and build "a more welcoming and inclusive community."
At MIT, meanwhile, school officials declined to follow through on threats they made to suspend students who participated in an unauthorized campus protest. Some of those students are foreign and thus could face "visa issues" should they be suspended, the school acknowledged in a statement.
During the Nov. 16 protest, some students used signs to cover their faces and wore tape over their mouths. One attendee removed the tape to tell a student filming the protest that she and other demonstrators "do not consent" to appearing in photos or videos. Protesters then carried signs through a campus building, promoting an Israeli ceasefire, accusing Israel of genocide, and calling for the Jewish state's eradication.
"This is a textbook case of genocide," a sign held by one of the protesting students read. "Bombing kids is not self defense," said another. A third referred to deaths in Gaza as acts of martyrdom, claiming that "5" was the "most common age of martyrs in Gaza."
Osofsky, who did not return a request for comment, suggested during her meeting with Jewish students that she would either refrain from addressing the protest, issue a "vague" statement on the event, or denounce both anti-Semitic signage and doxxing, according to a source. Days later, the dean's email ignored the signage while denouncing "doxing," which anti-Israel students urged Osofsky to address, according to the source.
In addition to the signage, anti-Israel students at the protest last week appeared to violate university policy by leaving the campus location they pledged to stay in, according to a source. The demonstrators instead marched around campus, potentially obstructing students who were going to class—a violation of the school's "demonstration policy."
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