I have a feeling that the Trump administration will find out who these students are if they really want to know.
The College Fix reports:
Purdue newspaper deletes names of pro-Palestinian protesters to protect students from TrumpPurdue University’s student newspaper is scrubbing the names and photos of pro-Palestinian protesters from its website, a decision its editors announced Monday in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump.The decision struck one journalism professor as “unusual,” but he told The College Fix that “the newspaper has every right to do it.”“The effort to protect the pro-Palestinian students could be characterized as sensible to some extent, but the paper might also consider the need to protect the identities of pro-Israel students as well, given that they, too, could be subject to harassment, not necessarily from the government, but from other students,” DePauw University Professor Jeffrey McCall said Tuesday in an email.In an editorial Monday, editors of the Purdue Exponent said they want to protect international students from deportation when their “only crime has been to raise their voices” in support of Palestine.The impetus for their decision was an executive order from the Trump administration last week that aims to combat antisemitism on college campuses. It directs the federal government to use “all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence.”A White House fact sheet that accompanied the executive order also suggested the Trump administration would revoke student visas and deport “Hamas sympathizers.”“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. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before,” Trump stated in the fact sheet.The Exponent editors expressed concerns the order will be used to target students just for participating in pro-Palestinian protests.The editors said they refuse “to be party to such a blatant violation of the First Amendment rights of potentially hundreds of Purdue students.”“Our newspaper will never be able to stop such an assault backed by the might of the federal government. But purdueexponent.org will no longer be a place where that government will be able to find the names of its targets.”
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