Zionist Groups Urge Trump White House to Prioritize Deporting Anti-Israel Protesters

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Dec. 18, 2024

Zionist groups are urging the incoming Trump administration to prioritize deporting foreign students for protesting against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

"Just a handful of [such] deportations, even if they are challenged in court, would send a warning shot to foreign students," the Israel First advocates insist.

From Jewish Insider, "Trump WH urged to prioritize deportation of foreign students with pro-terrorism views":

As Republicans jockey for roles in the Trump administration and interest groups work to get their agendas in front of incoming officials, some conservative activists are pushing President-elect Donald Trump to make good on a campaign promise to deport foreign students who espoused support for terror groups during campus anti-Israel protests after last year’s Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

The Republican Party platform released in July was a sparse list that reflected Trump’s ideological priorities but included few concrete policy proposals. Trump’s pledge to tackle antisemitism was coupled with just one policy goal: “support revoking Visas of Foreign Nationals who support terrorism and jihadism.”

Now, some of Trump’s backers argue that should be a day-one priority for the new administration. They are urging the president-elect to take on antisemitism in a way that incorporates counterterrorism measures, such as digging deeper into Iran’s influence on U.S. campus protests and looking into whether radical campus organizations receive illicit foreign financing.

“I think we’d like to see people who are on student visas, who have publicly and specifically endorsed Hamas or Hezbollah or what is a designated terrorist organization by the United States, and they’re showing they are very vocal in their support for them, that those students would lose their student visas to the United States and therefore be removed,” said Luke Moon, executive director of the Philos Project, which works to promote Christian engagement in the Middle East. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance spoke at the Philos Project’s Oct. 7 memorial rally in Washington this year.

The Philos Project says on their Instagram that their mission is "reconnecting Christians to their roots in Israel."

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