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A pro-Israel organization, Betar, is compiling names of foreign students on visas in the US who spewed anti-Israel bile at campus protests — and is hoping President Trump will give the haters a one-way ticket back home.
So far, the group has about 30 names of students from countries like Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Canada, and the United Kingdom, currently studying at some of the nation's top universities, including Columbia, UPenn, Michigan, Syracuse, UCLA, The New School for Social Research, Carnegie Mellon, and George Washington University.
"We have started commencing lists of Jew-hating foreign nationals on visas who support Hamas," said Ross Glick, director of the US chapter of Betar.
The organization Betar is compiling lists of foreigners who have taken part in antisemitic protests on college campuses over the last year.
Betar has identified these individuals using a combination of facial recognition software and "relationship database technology" to sort out those who participated in antisemitic campus protests over the past year.
"One of our issues is processing power, there is just so much video to work through," Glick said.
Betar is already in touch with "prospective" Trump administration appointees in the Justice Department about the best way to act on those identified, Glick mentioned.
Among those on the list is Momodou Taal, a British national and PhD candidate in Africana studies at Cornell University, who was suspended twice for his involvement in two on-campus Palestinian protests, the most recent in September. University officials initially informed Taal that his F-1 visa might be revoked due to this incident, according to Newsweek. However, the Ivy League institution later reversed its decision.
Weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel, Trump promised to deport foreign students who voiced support for radical Islamic terrorism. He repeated this promise to donors in May.
"When I am president we will not allow our colleges to be taken over by violent radicals. If you come from another country and try to bring jihadism or anti-Americanism or anti-Semitism to our campuses we will immediately deport you. You’ll be out of that school," Trump said at a rally that same month.
Said Glick: "We are strongly supportive of the Trump Administration’s plan to deport jihadis who seek to destroy America. Our campuses and our streets are filled with violent people who hate Jews and cannot coexist with Western society."
On Wednesday, Glick was on Capitol Hill, meeting with lawmakers including pro-Israel Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). Glick was there to protest a Senate vote on whether to initiate an arms embargo against Israel.
Glick also met with aides to Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and James Lankford.
"We have started commencing lists of Jew-hating foreign nationals on visas who support Hamas," said Ross Glick, director of the US chapter of Betar.
The organization Betar is compiling lists of foreigners who have taken part in antisemitic protests on college campuses over the last year.
Betar has identified these individuals using a combination of facial recognition software and "relationship database technology" to sort out those who participated in antisemitic campus protests over the past year.
"One of our issues is processing power, there is just so much video to work through," Glick said.
Betar is already in touch with "prospective" Trump administration appointees in the Justice Department about the best way to act on those identified, Glick mentioned.
Among those on the list is Momodou Taal, a British national and PhD candidate in Africana studies at Cornell University, who was suspended twice for his involvement in two on-campus Palestinian protests, the most recent in September. University officials initially informed Taal that his F-1 visa might be revoked due to this incident, according to Newsweek. However, the Ivy League institution later reversed its decision.
Weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel, Trump promised to deport foreign students who voiced support for radical Islamic terrorism. He repeated this promise to donors in May.
"When I am president we will not allow our colleges to be taken over by violent radicals. If you come from another country and try to bring jihadism or anti-Americanism or anti-Semitism to our campuses we will immediately deport you. You’ll be out of that school," Trump said at a rally that same month.
Said Glick: "We are strongly supportive of the Trump Administration’s plan to deport jihadis who seek to destroy America. Our campuses and our streets are filled with violent people who hate Jews and cannot coexist with Western society."
On Wednesday, Glick was on Capitol Hill, meeting with lawmakers including pro-Israel Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). Glick was there to protest a Senate vote on whether to initiate an arms embargo against Israel.
Glick also met with aides to Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and James Lankford.
"Entering our country to attend one of our esteemed universities is a privilege, and foreign students who conduct antisemitic activity on our campuses should have their visas revoked," Malliotakis stated. "I'm pleased the Trump Administration plans to take immediate action to have these individuals removed."
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Ross Glick, the leader of Betar US, has been actively meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including John Fetterman.
Betar doesn't avoid controversy.
The organization has been banned from using platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp because of a controversial jest about distributing beepers to members of a pro-Palestine group at the University of Pittsburgh. This was in reference to Israel's past use of beepers in a targeted attack against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
The group's name, Betar, comes from the Betar fortress, a significant site during the Jewish-Roman wars of the second century. Betar was established in 1923 by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, an influential early Zionist leader.
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