More than deportation: Trump admin should prosecute student protesters who commit illegal activity

When Governor George Wallace stood in the door at University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium in 1963 in a symbolic attempt to block of black students from entering following the US Supreme Court’s famous 1954 Brown v Board of Ed school desegregation ruling, President Lyndon B.Johnson called in the National Guard to enforce the equal protection order.And today, if the Ku Klux Klan or similar bigoted organization overtook college buildings by force, declared no-go zones for black students on campus, assaulted and intimidated black students and advocated for their repatriation to Africa, politicians of every stripe — and especially Democrats en masse — would rain down on the perpetrators with the angry wrath of a thousand suns.

And rightly so.Substitute “Jews” for “blacks” and this is exactly what is happening on Columbia’s and other college campuses. For 18 months now, campus protesters — often barely literate on the conflict in Gaza and its history, but seemingly often coordinated by professional protest organizers — have assaulted and intimidated Jewish students, forcibly overtaken buildings and classrooms, declared “Zionist-free” no-go zones for Jews on campus grounds and insisted that Jews in Israel be deported to places like Poland.These are violent actions not protected by the First Amendment, by anyone’s read.They are not only grounds for deportation, but they are grounds for criminal prosecution.Thus far, the Trump administration’s response is to deport ringleaders of pro-Hamas organizations like Columbia University Apartheid Divest’s Mahmoud Khalil.

CUAD repeatedly celebrated the Oct.7 genocidal attack.

It claims it is “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization” and has eagerly spread Hamas propaganda, directed death-wishes at Zionists and according to a new lawsuit, was part of a group of pro-Hamas organizations in the US that had advance knowledge and coordinated with Iran and Hamas on the Oct 7 attack...