By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-23 13:32:20 | Updated at 2024-11-24 11:01:50
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A Zionist organization is compiling names of foreign students on visas in the US who spewed anti-Israel bile at campus protests — and is hoping President-elect Trump will give the haters a one-way ticket back home.
So far, the group, Betar, has about 30 names of students from nations such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Canada, and the United Kingdom currently enrolled in 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.
Betar has IDed the haters using a combination of facial recognition software and “relationship database technology” to weed out people who were busted at antisemitic campus protests over the last year.
“One of our issues is processing power, there is just so much video to work through,” Glick said.
Betar is already in contact with “prospective” Trump administration appointees in the Justice Department about how best to take action on those identified, Glick said.
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 participating in a pair of on-campus Palestinian protests, most recently in September. University officials initially told Taal that the latest incident would lead to his F-1 visa being revoked, Newsweek reported. The Ivy later backed down.
Weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel, Trump vowed to deport foreign students who chanted in support of radical Islamic terrorism. He reiterated that 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 co-exist with Western society.”
On Wednesday, Glick was on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers including pro-Israel Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). Glick was in town to protest a Senate vote on whether to initiate an arms embargo against Israel.
Glick also met with aids to Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and James Lankford.
“They all gave me the thumbs up and told me how to follow up,” Glick said.
On the legislative front, Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis introduced a bill in February — the No Visas for Anti-Semitic Students Act — that would “revoke the visas of students who have engaged in antisemitic activities.”
“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 said. “I’m pleased the Trump Administration plans to take immediate action to have these individuals removed.”
Betar doesn’t shy away from controversy.
The organization is banned from Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp because of a joke it made about handing out beepers to members of a pro-Palestine group at the University of Pittsburgh, referring to Israel’s targeted beeper bomb attack against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
The group takes its name from Betar fortress, a prominent location in the Jewish-Roman wars of the second century. Betar was founded in 1923 by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, a prominent early Zionist leader.
