Trump orders review to identify, punish and deport antisemites — including students on visas

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Anti-Semitic demonstrators will no longer be welcome to harass the Jewish population in America as President Trump has vowed to crackdown on the antisemitism raging across the country that has been seen especially on college campuses over the last few years. According to the New York Post, President Trump is expected to sign an executive order “instructing all federal agencies to identify civil and criminal authorities available to combat antisemitism.” The measure will include “finding ways to deport anti-Jewish activists who violated laws.”

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A document detailing the order instructs the Justice Department to further investigate “pro-Hamas graffiti and intimidation,” including those appearing on college campuses. The order comes following a report issued by six Republican-led House committees last month calling on the federal government to do more to address antisemitism. One of the suggested measures was to pressure colleges to maintain more strict policies against anti-Jewish hate by placing a condition on federal aid.

According to the New York Post, the report revealed that colleges allegedly permissive of anti-Israel and antisemitic activism took in $2.7 billion in federal funds in fiscal year 2023.

At the center of focus is Columbia University, where antisemitism raged following the October 7 terror attack, and has shown no sign of disappearing as the spring semester of 2025 kicked off. Just last week, a video surfaced of pro-Hamas activists storming an Israeli history classroom attempting to distribute antisemitic propaganda containing threats of violence.

While the Biden administration’s State Department and Department of Homeland Security “stonewalled records requests about the number of visa holders among those protesters,” Trump, as a candidate, called on deporting pro-Hamas students in the United States on visas.

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The Post reports, “that order contained a passage that called for the US to ‘ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the United States’ do not ‘support designated foreign terrorists,’ though the intended effect of the wording was not immediately clear.”

The antisemitism displayed on behalf Hamas by pro-terrorist organizers raised serious concerns as notable college administrators failed to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews constituted punishable conduct,” when Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) questioned them. The school administrators argued that the pro-terrorist activists were protected by free-speech rights. Federal courts, however, found that non-citizens have fewer free speech rights than American citizens.

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