Several Republican presidential candidates during Wednesday night’s GOP primary debate called for the deportation of foreign students who support Hamas in the wake of Israel’s war against the terror group when asked to consider the rise of antisemitism on college campuses.
“What do you say to Jewish students on college campuses who feel unsafe in light of the dramatic increase in antisemitism? And what do you say to university presidents and college presidents who have not had a moment of moral clarity to forcefully condemn Hamas violence?” Matthew Brooks, CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition and Center for Jewish Policy, asked the five candidates on stage in Miami.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the top-polling candidate participating in the forum, noted that he is the first GOP White House challenger to call for the deportation of foreign students who sympathize with terrorists on the campaign trail.
“If you are here on a student visa as a foreigner [and] you do the usual thing with Hamas, I cancel your visa and I send you home. No questions asked,” the Florida governor vowed.
DeSantis went on to suggest that President Biden “should have the Justice Department on these college campuses” investigating potential civil rights violations against Jewish students, and he slammed the White House for announcing an initiative to combat Islamophobia amid harassment of Jewish students on campus. colleges across the country.
“I was already acting in Florida,” DeSantis said. “We have a group – Students for Justice in Palestine – they say they are normal with Hamas, they say we are not only in solidarity, this is us. We’re deactivating it, we’re not going to use state tax dollars to fund jihad. Impossible.”
Republican presidential candidates during Wednesday night’s GOP primary debate called for the deportation of foreign students who support Hamas in the wake of Israel’s war on the terrorist group.AP
Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) also called for the deportation of students with visas who support Hamas and added that he would defund colleges and universities if they continue to allow antisemitic protests to take place.
“Let me say to every university president in America, federal funding is a privilege not a right,” Scott said.
“Any campus that allows antisemitism and hatred, to allow students to promote violence, genocide and genocide, you should lose your federal funding today,” he added.
Scott also praised his efforts to combat antisemitism through several federal legislations, which he has introduced since 2017.
“We must force people off those campuses and out of our country,” Scott said of the students supporting Hamas with visas.
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley called for national “soul searching” to “remember who we are.”
“Let me remind you something, Hamas says ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America.’ They hate and will kill you too,” Haley said in a response directed at students who support Hamas.
“That is not an American value. That’s not us. We are better than that. We don’t need to celebrate terrorists. We don’t need to celebrate genocide. We don’t need to celebrate violence against anyone,” he added.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy set himself apart from his rivals with his response, calling for “leadership not censorship” of college students with antisemitic views – which he called “sick” and a sign of a “deeper cancer” in the country.
“Leadership means filling that void with purpose and meaning,” Ramaswamy argued. “Dilute this wokeism and antisemitism to irrelevance.”
“These kids, they don’t know what they’re talking about,” he added. “When they side with Hamas over Israel, they are idiots.”
Ramaswamy warned that “if we go the way of Ron DeSantis, or Nikki Haley” other kinds of views could be filtered out on college campuses as well.
“Mark my words, soon they will say if you question vaccines and their side effects you are a bioterrorist. Soon they will say that if you show up at a school board meeting, you are a domestic terrorist. Soon if they say that the J6 prisoners should be released, you are a rebel terrorist. So that’s where the road ends.”
“We don’t cancel this with censorship because it creates the worst stomach. We extinguished it through leadership by calling for it,” he said, arguing that his position respected “our Constitution.”
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