US universities aim at pro-Palestine students with suspensions, campus bans | Donald Trump News

The University of Chicago is not the only campus that imposes student demonstrators hard punishments.

At the University of Minnesota, seven students confronted up to two and a half years of suspension and monthly damages of $ 5,000, months after the arrest of an October protest.

The students had occupied a campus building in which she renamed “Halimy Hall” after a 19-year-old Palestinian Tikok personality, which was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza last year.

In January, 11 students from New York University received one -year suspensions after staging a non -violent seat in a library last December.

The university also explained two respected faculty members “Personae non gratae” for joining the sit-in, which prevents it from accessing certain school buildings.

The stubborn punishments came when the universities adopted stricter rules for campus protests, including restrictions on the use of tents and time restrictions for demonstrations at some universities.

Rifqa Falaneh, a scholarship holder at Palestine Legal, an Advocacy group that defends a pro-Palestine speech, says that the cumulative effect was a mute.

“There are so many people who say that the protests are decreased, but I would say that the students react to what the university administrations have imposed on them,” says Falaneh.

“We see so many new guidelines, so many different restrictions that restrict the ability to speak on campus.”

However, the pressure on the universities to tamp the campus protests comes from the highest level of government.

In January, President Donald Trump, a Republican, was sworn in for a second term. Less than two weeks later, on January 29, he signed an “unprecedented wave of hideous anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism and violence” at the US locations.

In an accompanying fact sheet, Trump promised to take “immediate measures” in order to examine and punish “anti -Jewish racism in left, anti -American universities and universities”, also by canceling student visa.

“Come in 2025, we will find them and we will deport them,” said Trump, addressing the foreign students involved in the protests. “I will also quickly cancel the student visa of all Hamas sympathizers on College Campus, which have never been affected with radicalism like never before.”

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However, Falaneh notes that the high operations and severe punishments are already responsible for a subdued reaction to Trump’s policy, whereby only a few protests on campus against his immigration regeneration or his attacks on the US formation system broke out.

“The schools tried so much to silence the advocacy of students for Palestine, and they accidentally also silenced the language of the students when it comes to expressing the opposition to Trump,” says Falaneh. “It is somehow bites back.”