The executives and activists of the California University have brought an executive order of President Trump, which promotes federal action against campus-anti-Semitism, and his threats to cancel visa propalestinic international students, after many of the largest and most controversial protests Landes in their schools developed.
The USC leaders were cautious in comments and said they had complied with state and federal laws, while a UC spokesman said it was obliged to “combat anti -Semitism”, but not on a Trump promise to Deportation of international players who are “Hamas sympathizers”. The chairman of a Jewish UCLA group welcomed the order as recognition of the “crisis” of the campus anti -Semitism. And a propalestinian representative of the UCLA faculty described the threats in the order as “authoritarianism, simple and simple”.
The command Calls of the Federal Government to “persecute, remove, remove or take into account the perpetrators of illegal anti -Semitic nuisance and violence to the College Campus, leads the departments for training, state and Homeland institutions”, such as activities by extraterrestrial students and employees monitor and report that you may qualify for the revocation of Visa.
It quotes the federal law that does not prohibit state members in the United States if they support terrorism. The order does not explicitly set propalestinian demonstrators with followers of Hamas, which the USA refers to as a terrorist organization.
But a fact sheet about the executive order on the Weiße Haus websiteQuoted Trump, makes it clear the intentions of the President to “deport Hamas sympathizer and revoke student visa”.
The step follows Trump's campaign to deport propalestinian demonstrators that do not have the US citizenship.
“If you come here from another country and try to bring our campus a jihadism or anti -Americanism or anti -Semitism, we will deport them immediately,” he said in one May event. At the Republican National Congress in July, the party approved Add the goal on its platform.
UCLA civil servants, the USC and other locations with large international student population groups, which had a basis for Propalestinian protests last year, said their administrations had examined the president's order with concern about the president's order.
But universities had little to say in response to Trump.
In a statement, USC said that it “checked the arrangement” and “all state and federal laws follow”.
The UCLA headed a question from Times to the President of the University of California, which monitors all locations.
A UC spokesman said in an explanation that the university system “is unshakable in its commitment to combating anti -Semitism” and “carefully checks the president's executive regulation, while our work promotes an environment that promotes free of harassment and discrimination”.
When asked whether UC had a position in Trump's intention to refer Visa for Pro-Palestinian international students, the spokesman said: “We will let you know whether we can add something further.”
A self -described “loud, proud Zionist activist” Betar usLast week said that there was a list of at least 100 “Pro-Hamas” foreign students and 20 faculty members to the White House, including that of UC. The news was first reported by the conservative outlet Daily caller.
Civil rights groups like that American Civil Liberties Union Criticized Californian universities after October 7, 2023, an explosion of pro-Palestinian activism and complaints from anti-Jewish and anti-Arab incidents to arrest student activists. In internal and external ratings, the UCLA for the failure to quickly coordinate a reaction with the Los Angeles police and other law enforcement agencies was guilty of coordinating an answer quickly before April 30th and May 1st last year.
The UCLA was sued in a federal court in which it was claimed that Propalestinian demonstrators prevented Jewish students from accessing certain campus routes last spring last spring. And Pro-Palestinian demonstrators from the UCLA submitted a lawsuit for dealing with protests by the university.
While the demonstrators were confronted, such as the consequences on campus, including suspensions and delays in the achievement of their degrees, the universities in general avoided criminal persecution.
Kira Stein, chairman of the UCLA faculty's resilience group, said that the organization welcomed Trump's command, “as an important step in recognizing the Jewish students and the faculty in the UCLA and other campus across the country.”
“For too long, the universities have examined anti -Semitism in the other direction while enforcing protection for any other identity group. This double standard must stop. We hope that this order is urging the administrations to finally take anti -Semitism seriously and to protect Jewish students and faculties alike, ”said Stein, deputy clinical professor of psychiatry.
“A large part of the problem is anti-Zionism, which exceeds the line from legitimate, evidence-based criticism to demonization, disinformation, rejection and demands the destruction of Israel,” said Stein. “This is anti -Semitism, simple and simple. To refuse Jews, the same rights as all other things-of self-determination in their historical home country-sind discrimination, and the universities have to acknowledge and address them. “
In an explanation, the university called for a representative of the judiciary of the judiciary in Palestine, whose members belong to professors who have participated in the Pro-Palestinian camp, “to stand up for the rights of their students, the faculty and all employees”.
“We reject the fog wall of anti -Semitism, which is still used by US administrations to justify their constant support of the genocide against Palestinians, and now this xenophobic order,” said Hannah Appel, a UCLA -Associate Professor of Anthropology, in the explanation. “As a scientist, we all remind you that Judaism is a religion and cultural identity, while Israel is a state that is involved in the shift, expropriation, military occupation and genocide of the Palestinian people for eight decades. The criticism of Israel and participation in protests against genocide are not anti -Semitic and the deportation to threaten as a result of the protest is the authoritarian, simple and simple. “
At the UC Berkeley, an important protest last year, doctoral student Ryan Manriquez said that many students on the campus were frightened by the order.
“The most recent executivations of the Trump government politicize our student body and leave a lot of fear of what will come,” he said.
Manriquez signed at a Thursday letter from the UC Student Assn. And UC Graduate and Professional Council, who represents students and doctoral students to the system's 10 campus and described Trump a “direct attack on freedom of speak”.
“This inaccurate fusion of pro-Palestine interest groups with anti-Semitism is a frightening precedent of censorship for the student community, in which only certain students can take part in freedom of speech,” the letter said.
At UC San Diego, the students said for justice in the Palestine Group in a statement that the president's executive order would not suppress their demonstrations.
The order “is not just about Palestine; It is about the right of every student to protest against US violence in both home and abroad without being afraid of surveillance or deportation, “the explanation says.
“The real question is: Where will our universities stand at this crucial moment? Will institutions like UC San Diego … go so far to report student activists for deportation? “
Trump's command continues to involve the Federal Government in a controversial debate about what makes anti -Semitism. Pro-Palestinian activists argue that their protests are anti-Zionist but not anti-Jewish and that they are against the state of Israel due to his actions against Palestinians. However, pro-Israel groups are expanding that the question of whether Israel should exist as a Jewish state is anti-Semitic.
The Ministry of Foreign AffairsWhich takes over the student visa follows a definition that is funded by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Pro-Palestinian and free opinion organizations have opposed this definition because it states that “the existence of a state of Israel is a racist undertaking” is anti-Semitic. This argument is common in protests on campus, where posters and chants routinely deciphered Israel as a “apartheid” state.
The Trump Order also calls on the educational department to report an inventory and analysis of all upcoming administrative complaints, against or include in which institutions of university formation due to violations of civil rights in connection with or from October 2023, campus anti-Semitism, after October, the campus anti-Semitism. “”
The university in the United States, which were examined after October, expected hard measures as part of a Trump management. 7, 2023, civil rights complaints in several cases reached the settlements before Trump's inauguration. In December, the UC solved nine federal civil rights complaints for anti-Semitism and bias against Muslim, Arabic and Propalestinian students to five UC campus.