Trump executive order to deport Hamas sympathizers on campuses prompts student newspaper to delete names

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sympathizers-campuses-prompts-student-newspaper-delete-names

President Donald Trump's Jan. 30 executive order to cancel the student 
visas of Hamas sympathizers on college campuses is being met with 
resistance.

The editorial board at the Exponent, an independent Purdue University 
student newspaper, said it "refuses to be party to such a blatant 
violation of the First Amendment rights of potentially hundreds of Purdue 
students."

"That's why, to protect the identities of pro-Palestinian students, we are 
removing the names, images and likenesses of every such student from our 
website published since Oct. 7, 2023," the editorial board wrote on 
Monday. "Further, in future coverage, no such information or images will 
be published online or in print by the Exponent — no exceptions — until 
this autocratic attack on free speech is overturned."

Executive Order 13899 aims to combat the "unprecedented wave of vile anti-
Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and violence against our citizens, 
especially in our schools and on our campuses" since Oct. 7, 2023, when 
Hamas first attacked Israel, sparking the beginning of a 15-month war that 
has left tens of thousands of people dead.

"To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we 
put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you," 
the president said in a Jan. 30 fact sheet on the executive order. "I will 
also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college 
campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before."

"I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on 
college campuses."

— President Donald Trump
Hamas is a designated terrorist organization that the Department of 
National Intelligence (DNI) describes as "the largest and most capable 
militant group in the Palestinian territories and one of the territories’ 
two major political parties."

"HAMAS is committed to armed resistance against Israel and to the creation 
of a Palestinian state, and the group has engaged in several rounds of 
violent conflict with Israel," according to DNI. "The most recent began on 
7 October 2023, when HAMAS launched a massive surprise attack against 
Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people."

The Exponent's editorial board said it expects "no distinction" to be made 
between "'pro-jihadist' and pro-Palestinian" when it comes to revoking 
student visas.

"Anti-war can only now mean ‘pro-Hamas,’" the student board wrote.

"Such twisting of language to be used as a weapon is contrary to the First 
Amendment, which gives the Exponent its right to exist just as much as it 
gives the right to students to protest as they see fit. It is the opinion 
of the Exponent that standing back while our website is potentially used 
to identify the state's enemies would be directly against those 
principles," the board continued.

The board added that pro-Palestine protests at Purdue will continue into 
2025, but the students they interview at protests "will no longer have 
their identities published." 

The Exponent, and its editorial board, is an independent, unaffiliated 
entity from Purdue University that does not receive funding from Purdue 
University.

Hamas and Israel's recent ceasefire deal, which paused the deadly war, has 
led Hamas to release 10 Israeli hostages and five Thai nationals abducted 
on Oct. 7, 2023, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and increased 
humanitarian aid into Gaza. Six Americans remain in Gaza.

More than 46,000 Palestinians died in the war, half of whom are believed 
to be women and children, though that number could be higher, according to 
the Palestinian Health Ministry. More than 90% of the roughly two million 
Palestinians living in Gaza were displaced during the war.


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