New York, United States – Last week, US President Donald Trump published a message addressed to the student demonstrators who participated in the pro -Balatiyah demonstrations last year.

It was a warning. It was specifically aimed at Immigrants Among the demonstrators.

“For all the foreigners who have joined the pro -jihadist protests, we put you on a notice: Come 2025, and we will find you, and we will welcome you,” and I quoted Trump as saying in a white house Fact paper.

“I will quickly cancel student visas for all Hamas sympathizers on the university campus, which was created with extremism as it has not happened before.”

The statement was the last sign that the repercussions of the protests were not over. If there is anything, under Trump’s second state, advocates of freedom of expression and supporters of Palestinian rights are preparing to continue the campaign against university activists who led the demonstrations.

“Legal questions about students deporting students to speech that can be protected in the United States are complicated,” said Sarah McLeulin, a researcher at the Foundation for Rights and Individual Expression (FIR).

“But the moral question is clear: Do we want the deportation to be the result of expressing the political opinions that the White House distorted?”

Plan “to remove” foreign students

Trump’s comments came in a new aftermath Executive orderIt was signed on January 29. The way to deport foreign students in the name of fighting anti -Semitism on the campus.

the to request “Take immediate action” pledges to “prosecute, remove or adhere to taking them in the account of the perpetrators of harassment and anti -illegal violence.”

To achieve this goal, the Minister of Education calls for providing stocks of court cases that involve anti -Semitism in colleges, universities and schools that study kindergarten until the twelfth grade.

It also requires directing all higher education institutions on how to “monitor and report the activities of foreign students and employees.”

In the event of justification, the government can begin “measures to remove these foreigners.”

This comes in response to what the Trump administration calls “an explosion of anti -Semitism on our deprivation and in our streets since October 7, 2023.” On that day, fighters from the Palestinian Armed Group attacked Hamas in southern Israel, killing an estimated 1139 people.

Israel responded with war. For 15 months, Israeli bombs fell on the Palestinian Gaza pocket, as their forces settled hospitals, schools and neighborhoods.

Now that he has taken a fragile ceasefire, officials hope to obtain a more accurate picture of the death toll, which is what He is currently sitting in 62000Many Palestinian women and children.

The United Nations experts compared the methods of Israel’s war with genocide, and concerned about human rights concerned with thousands of students in colleges and universities to gather in protest.

Some have prepared camps to condemn the actions of Israel. Others occupied their universities to strip them of Israeli companies and other companies that supported the war.

But while the protests were largely peaceful, some have expressed discomfort with the general criticism of Israel, a major ally of the United States. Others accused the demonstrators of anti -Semitism, although protest leaders denied such allegations.

Under the pressure of donors and legislators, many universities have taken support for events in universities. Up to 3,000 student demonstrators were arrested at the height of the protest movement in 2024.

“Control and Fear”

Meanwhile, the issues of anti -Semitism in the protest movement reached the highest levels of government, with President Joe Biden pledged at the time to take action.

The movement also revealed against the backdrop of the hot US presidential election season, and Trump used the case as part of his campaign.

The Washington Post reported in May that he told the donors that he would take the demonstrators students and “throw them outside the country.”

Later, in July, the Republicans published a party platform This reflects a similar speech. One of her promises was to “deport the extremists who support enthusiasm and made the campus safe and patriotic again.”

Even Trump threatened to withdraw funding and accreditation from universities that failed to retreat the demonstrators enough.

Dima Khaldi – Director of Palestine Lior, a group that protects the rights of defenders of Palestine in the United States – The name Last week, Trump ordered “the latest in a growing list of dangerous measures and replacement that aims to enforce ideological strangulation on schools by trying to intimidate students in silence.”

It believes that Trump violates the first amendment to the US constitution, which protects freedom of expression and the right to gathering. It argues that the danger extends beyond the pro -Palestinians.

Khaldi said: “The effects of this executive matter go beyond the Palestine movement.”

“It encourages government agencies to find ways to target any opposition from the Trump agenda and aims to recruit universities themselves as monitoring and monuments.”

Free speech questions

Like the other Executive procedures Trump rushed to sign during the first days of his second term, and he is expected to face legal challenges.

Carrie Dikkl, the lawyer of the first employee at the Faris Institute for the University of Colombia, explained that protecting the first amendment applies to “every person in the United States”, regardless of citizenship or visa mode.

“The deportation of non -citizens on the basis of their political discourse will be unconstitutional,” she wrote in a statement.

However, McLeulin, a defender of freedom of expression, indicated that the federal government is still “maintaining great power for the presence of foreign citizens in the country.”

This may lead to a chilling effect: the demonstrators are silent, vulnerable students who depend on visas or other immigration documents to stay in the United States.

“This matter, along with President Trump’s threat accompanying the deportation of what he sees” sympathetic to Hamas “, will suggest to international students that the promised rights on the campus of our nation are not to enjoy it.

“This is a loss for these students, whose speech is likely to be cold, and for their peers, who will be deprived of the ability to hear these opinions, challenge and challenge.”

In a statement to the Freedom Organization of Freedom between America, Christine Chavedin said that Trump’s order was “reminding us of McCarthy”, a period in history when the US government sought to eradicate people and reject them “good.”

“While the declared goal of this executive matter is to combat anti -Semitism, instead, it risks greatly by creating an army -like army of informants who will be enabled to target students, faculty and international employees for their opinions.”

“This will not do a little for more dialogue and understanding on the campus, or combating intolerance. Instead, this will exacerbate the climate of fear and lack of confidence.”

Fight anti -Semitism

Not only that the executive order raised freedom of expression issues, but critics also asked whether Trump’s direction would actually achieve his average goal of combating anti -Semitism.

in statementBin Olinski, a colleague at the American Progress Center, accused the Trump administration of anti -Semitism “to achieve political gains.”

“He does nothing to keep Jewish students or any safe Americans from hatred or prevent terrorism, which constitutes legitimate threats to American Jewish societies,” Olinski wrote.

Instead, he abandons education and dialogue while attacking protected political speech. It is clear that Trump’s real goal is to silence the opposition voices. “

While reports have risen on anti -Semitism over the past year, hate incidents against Muslims and hostile to the Palestinian.

From January to July 2024, the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Islamic civil rights organization in the country, made 4,951 complaints, an increase of 69 percent over the same period in the previous year.

In the wake of Trump’s executive order, the group condemned the fact that these incidents were not considered at all.

“The regime completely ignores real and documented incidents of violence against Palestinians and opposed to Muslims against American university students by extremists supporting Israel,” Kerr wrote in its statement.

He also described the matter as “an attempt to develop many Jewish, Muslims, Palestinians and other university students who protested” the war together.

Other critics, such as Olinksy, have argued that if Trump is serious in combating anti -Semitism, he will himself be based on groups such as extremist right -wing boys.

“If President Trump really cares [about] In the real rise in anti -Semitism works, Illon Musk will start making what It appears to be a Nazi greeting Last week, Olinski also said.

“President Trump’s repeated refusal to condemn the anti -Semitism when he comes from his supporters helps to enable the disturbing height in the anti -Semitism that we see today.”