DoomsdaysCW<p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport<br> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BetarUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BetarUS</span></a> said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”</p><p>"This conflation of speech critical to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> or support of Hamas will do little to protect Jews in the United States from hate, said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JonahRubin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JonahRubin</span></a>, with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JewishVoiceForPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewishVoiceForPeace</span></a>, a progressive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JewishAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewishAmerican</span></a> group that advocates for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a>."</p><p>Jonah Valdez<br>February 6 2025</p><p>"The premise behind Trump’s more recent order is rooted in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectEsther" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectEsther</span></a>: a treatise by the authors of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a>. The document was billed as 'a blueprint to counter antisemitism' and offered strategies to target and silence critics of Israel, including deportation. A fact sheet about the executive order related by the Trump administration mirrored language from Project Esther and laid bare the order’s intent to 'cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses,' vowing to deport 'all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests.'</p><p>"Such ideas are increasingly gaining purchase in conservative discourse. Pledges to deport supporters of Palestinian rights were a key part of the Republican Party’s platform. A congressional bill introduced last May called for similar measures. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> is a key focus of Project Esther and Trump’s executive orders. While the most recent order instructs all agencies within the executive branch to take part in the crackdown, it encourages <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> in specific areas, such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> and even K-12 schools, where administrators are being told to monitor and report <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternationalStudents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalStudents</span></a> for possible deportation. </p><p>"On Monday, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched investigations into five schools — <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a>; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UCLABerkley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UCLABerkley</span></a>; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthwesternUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthwesternUniversity</span></a>; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UniversityOfMinnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfMinnesota</span></a>, Twin Cities; and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PortlandStateUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PortlandStateUniversity</span></a> — for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a>, the first use of the executive order. </p><p>"'Americans and college students that visit the United States should be able to protest the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> government’s human rights violations in the same way that the United United Nations, the International Criminal Court [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICC</span></a>], <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmnestyInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmnestyInternational</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsWatch</span></a>, and other respected institutions have for the past several years, without fear of retaliation,' said Robert McCaw, a leader with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who heads the government affairs department. He decried the order’s fact sheet of peddling anti-Muslim terms such as 'pro-Jihad.'" </p><p>"Trump’s efforts have inspired a grassroots campaign to identify possible targets for deportation. On <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a>, groups such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MothersAgainstCollegeAntisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MothersAgainstCollegeAntisemitism</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChicagoJewishAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChicagoJewishAlliance</span></a> have shared links to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line and called on people to report 'foreign students and faculty who support Hamas' and 'students on visas who are suspected of engaging in pro-terror activities,' respectively."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/06/betar-palestine-school-activists-target-deport-trump/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/02/06/be</span><span class="invisible">tar-palestine-school-activists-target-deport-trump/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/fCZve" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/fCZve</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/McCarthyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McCarthyism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsAreNeverWrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsAreNeverWrong</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DontSnitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontSnitch</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICERaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICERaids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEArrests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICEArrests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CollegeStudents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollegeStudents</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AuthoritarianRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthoritarianRule</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>