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Trump says he’ll deport anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian student protesters if elected — report
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that if elected in November he will deport anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters, according to a report in The Washington Post.
“One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave,” Trump is quoted as saying at a May 14 donor event.
Referring to anti-Israel protests amid the ongoing war in Gaza that swept US college campuses in the last seven months, the former US president vowed to defeat the “radical revolution,” according to the report.
Trump also praised the New York Police Department for clearing up protest encampments and a building occupation at Columbia University and encouraged other cities to do the same, the report adds.
Commenting on the war in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’s October 7 attack in southern Israeli communities, Trump reportedly expressed support for Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.”
The former US president has been critical of Israel and Netanyahu since he left office, including in the aftermath of the Hamas massacre. At an October rally, Trump hailed the Hezbollah terror group as “very smart,” while branding Defense Minister Yoav Gallant a “jerk.”
The Times of Israel Community.