National Faculty Coalition Wants Protections for Non-Citizens Who ‘Express Support’ for Hamas
“The initiative is led by the American Association of University Professors and several of its university chapters, including Harvard’s”
This is ridiculous. Hamas is a terrorist organization.
The College Fix reports:
Faculty group demands protections for non-citizens who ‘express support’ for Hamas
A national faculty coalition is pushing to grant non-citizens First Amendment protections, demanding that the Trump administration be permanently barred from revoking visas over pro-Palestinian activism or support for terrorist groups.
The initiative is led by the American Association of University Professors and several of its university chapters, including Harvard’s, in partnership with the Middle East Studies Association.
A court victory for the AAUP in September stated that the Trump administration was violating the First Amendment by revoking visas of pro-Palestinian activists, according to The Harvard Crimson.
The national coalition’s new proposal seeks to block the Trump administration from continuing what it calls unconstitutional arrests and deportations. However, it also demands that any relief must apply to all noncitizens, not just members of the petitioning organizations.
It also includes a list of pro-Palestinian statements that cannot warrant a threat to a person’s visa.
The list includes statements considered “to express support or sympathy for terrorism or a designated foreign terrorist organization such as Hamas.”
However, not everyone agrees that citizens and noncitizens should share the same rights.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Program Director Brandy Shufutinsky told The College Fix via email that Secretary of State Marco Rubio “has the power to revoke visas as they are a privilege, not a right.”
In her experience, no one has faced deportation or visa revocation solely for pro-Palestinian speech. However, she noted that visa-holders who express support for terrorism or violate U.S. civil-rights laws have faced appropriate consequences.
“If we do not allow criminals and terrorists into our country, why would we allow noncitizens who are already here to engage in criminal or terrorist activity?” Shufutinsky said.
She said there are some “who seek to spill American blood, and some of those folks use the rights and privileges guaranteed by our Constitution to do so.”
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The system is irretrievably broken. Shut down the “schools” (read: indoctrination centers). All of them. Now.
They should not be protected, and should have their visas revoked. I am not allowed to go into Australia and express support while on a student visa for anti-government forces who have a gaol or killing Australian citizens. Nor should I be allowed to; no reasonable country would allow this. Pro Hamas foreign students should either keep their mouths shut or not come here. Go to school in Qatar and Turkey instead if you insist on expsoing your hateful violent opnions. Stop allowing these students to organize against American citizens and deny American students a right to a fair education.
How about… “No.”
Also, we need to re-establish American values in these institutions. Then these people wouldn’t come here at all.
Not to “grant”. They want the court to affirm what is already solidly established law, that they already have that protection. The court has already ruled that way for the plaintiffs, now they want it to say the same for everyone else in the same situation.
The constitution says otherwise.
First of all, we are not talking about criminals or terrorists. We’re talking about people who exercise their inalienable right, with which they were endowed by their Creator, to support criminals and terrorists.
And the reason we don’t have to allow such supporters of criminals and terrorists into our country, but can’t kick them out once they’re here, is because, as the courts have said repeatedly, over the last two centuries, the constitution only protects the rights of aliens who are in its jurisdiction.
If you are neither a US citizen nor resident, and you are not physically in the USA, then the constitution doesn’t protect your rights, so we can deny you a visa because we don’t like your opinions. But once you’re here it does protect you, so we can’t revoke your visa just because we don’t like your opinions.
“She said there are some “who seek to spill American blood, and some of those folks use the rights and privileges guaranteed by our Constitution to do so.”
Which would be a hell of a lot less of a problem if the government gave the same bleeding heart level of consideration to those of us who were BORN here, who have had our constitutional right to armed self defense all but destroyed.
Would the AAUP be making such demands on behalf of foreign professors who voice support for the KKK or against the LGBTQ “community”, if such a person was to be hired as a professor or admitted as a student in the first place? Somehow I doubt it.
If not then that is the problem, not the fact that it does so for supporters of antisemitic terrorism.
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