New Republican Bill Would Send Campus Protesters to Gaza for Six Months if They’re Found Guilty of Illegal Activity
“Students have abandoned their classes to harass other students and disrupt campus-wide activities, including university commencement ceremonies nationwide. Enough is enough”
I keep seeing commenters and people on Twitter saying ‘Send them to Gaza.’ Well, here you go.
FOX News reports:
College anti-Israel agitators could be sent to Gaza under new House GOP bill
A new House Republican bill would send any person charged and convicted for illegal activity on a college campus to Gaza for at least six months.
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., introduced the bill on Wednesday alongside Reps. Randy Weber, R-Texas, and Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., in response to the ongoing anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses across the country.
Several of those protests have turned violent, with clashes between police and activists, as well as hundreds of activists being arrested across multiple campuses.
While Ogles’ bill text does not mention Israel or the anti-Israel groups, it specifically targets unlawful activity on college campuses after Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants invaded Israel in a surprise attack that killed over 1,000 people.
Those convicted would be forced to serve a minimum six-month community service sentence in Gaza, where Israel is currently waging a brutal campaign to eradicate Hamas and rescue the remaining Israelis that terrorists took hostage in October.
“Students have abandoned their classes to harass other students and disrupt campus-wide activities, including university commencement ceremonies nationwide. Enough is enough,” Ogles told Fox News Digital.
“That’s why I introduced legislation to send any person convicted of unlawful activity on the campus of an American university since October 7th, 2023, to Gaza to complete a minimum of six months of community service.”
Weber added, “If you support a terrorist organization, and you participate in unlawful activity on campuses, you should get a taste of your own medicine. I am going to bet that these pro-Hamas supporters wouldn’t last a day, but let’s give them the opportunity.”
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oh do this. please do this.
Grandstanding. ANY illegal activity? Who issues visas for Gaza, and what if they say no? On the other hand, the sentence may be unusual, but is not ALSO cruel, if the convict is on record as supporting Hamas.
Yeah, you know Congress can’t actually do that, right?
make it a plea deal six month community service in gaza for suspended sentance.
Oh? Why couldn’t they? Because they don’t have jurisdiction? Ha! Because it would somehow be a bill of attainder or other unconstitutional action? Ha! On what basis do you think they can’t, Milhouse?
Or, are you once again confusing “shouldn’t” with “can’t”?
Do we have a specific federal case or statute that says banishment is a “cruel and unusual punishment?”
It doesn’t seem “cruel” to punish someone by ordering them to spend time giving actual physical support to a cause they claim to support. Even if giving that support causes them personal hardship and inconvenience. That is the point of punishment, after all.
Milhouse is undoubtedly correct. This is theater to fool conservatives into thinking the Republicans are actually doing something useful.
I’m pretty sure everyone knows it’s theater. But it’s pretty good theater.
This is a perfectly appropriate sentence for the crime. Which makes it perfect signaling. It won’t pass. But it will light up a great many with where their sympathies lie.
Ahaha! That’s hilarious!
Better yet ~ send them to Iran!!
will never get thru the D controlled Senate …. doubt it gets voted on in the house … speaker Johnson
will have to check with his boss
H. Jefferies …. the alleged minority leader. who is the defacto majority leader.
Yeah sorry…way too many rights violated by this. Just throw them in US jail and they will learn enough lessons.
Many might get free flying lessons during their (abbreviated) time in Gaza.