As Terror-Supporting Foreign Savages Riot on College Campuses, Marco Rubio Announces "Catch and Deport" Program to Eject Lawless Islamists from Country

Finally.

From John Sexton at Hot Air, terror sympathizer radicals are taking over libraries and making threats while wearing masks.

The pro-Hamas students at Barnard College are at it again. For those who missed the backstory, here it is. Last week this group, which is called CUAD, occupied an administrative building to protest the expulsion days earlier of two of their fellow activists. The expulsion was in response to a classroom disruption that happened on the first day of the semester.

In an effort to get the school to reverse course on the expulsions, CUAD demanded a meeting with Barnard President Laura Ann Rosenbury. And after hours of chanting and drumming that disrupted classes in the building, they agreed to a meeting the following day. But that meeting never happened. President Rosenbury said she would only sit down with three representatives from the group if they removed their masks. They refused. And then she expelled another student over a building takeover that happened last spring.

Unlike some other university administrators, President Rosenbury seems to be taking a harder line. Monday she wrote an opinion piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education titled "When Student Protest Goes Too Far."

On the first day of classes this January, four masked individuals threatened both our educational mission and our community by disrupting a History of Modern Israel course at Columbia in which several Barnard students were enrolled. This disruption was not designed to expand thinking or advance civil discourse. Instead, it was a calculated act of intimidation, with the disruptors taunting and loudly speaking over the professor, distributing antisemitic flyers, and refusing to join the discussion even when the professor graciously invited them to sit in on the class.

This wasn't an isolated incident but an escalation of an ongoing threat to our community. Over the last year and a half, an unauthorized group of anonymous individuals calling themselves Columbia University Apartheid Divest have exploited the conflict in the Middle East to try to tear our campus community -- our Barnard home -- apart.

They operate in the shadows, hiding behind masks and Instagram posts with Molotov cocktails aimed at Barnard buildings, antisemitic tropes about wealth, influence, and "Zionist billionaires," and calls for violence and disruption at any cost. They claim Columbia University's name, but the truth is, because their members wear masks, no one really knows whose interests they serve.

See the link for more. Rosenbury says that, despite the criminals wearing masks, they're identifying the jihadists.

The Free Beacon just identified six of the radicals.

Nearly half the radical activists arrested Wednesday after storming a Barnard College library are Columbia University students, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

Of the nine individuals arrested after storming Millstein Library, four are Columbia students: Gabrielle Wimer, Hannah Puelle, Yunseo Chung, and Symmes Cannon. One, Tramy Dong, is a Barnard student. Another, Christopher Holmes, attends Union Theological Seminary, a Columbia affiliate, while the remaining three appear unassociated with either school. They were charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, and obstructing governmental administration, according to an NYPD spokesman.

Barnard president Laura Ann Rosenbury, however, stressed that the police weren't called in because the radicals stormed Milstein Library. Rather, she felt the building needed to be cleared to protect the broader student body because of a bomb threat in the building.

The radicals rushed in through a back exit that an accomplice held open, hoisted an effigy of Rosenbury, and passed out Hamas propaganda. They refused to leave, even after they were alerted of the bomb threat. Law enforcement eventually cleared the agitators from the library, but the protesters refused to clear the courtyard outside and clashed with police. Officers began making arrests.

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Barnard's vice president for development and alumnae relations Michael Farley, however, in a statement claimed that "none of the individuals arrested on our campus Wednesday evening are Barnard students." It is unclear if Dong was one of the two students the college expelled for storming an Israeli history class at Columbia in January and targeting Jewish students with anti-Semitic flyers. Barnard did not respond to a request for comment.

The radicals stormed Barnard's Milbank Hall last week to protest those expulsions. A third Barnard student was expelled soon after for storming a Columbia building last spring. The agitators behind Wednesday's incident demanded the reversal of all three.

A mob led by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) and Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)--the Ivy League institution's most anti-Semitic student groups--stormed Barnard's Milbank Hall on Feb. 26, sending a security guard to the hospital and causing $30,000 in damages. CUAD and SJP also took credit for orchestrating Wednesday's incident at the Milstein Library.

Once inside, the agitators handed out Hamas propaganda justifying the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack. They demanded the immediate reversal of the Barnard students' expulsions, "amnesty for all students disciplined for pro-Palestine action," and a complete "abolition of the corrupt Barnard disciplinary process." They also renamed the library after Hussam Abu Safiya, a Gaza hospital director the Israel Defense Forces accused of being a terrorist and holding a rank in Hamas.

Even though the agitators voted to stay overnight, until Rosenbury returned to campus in the morning, a bomb threat reported in the building forced Barnard vice president for strategic communications Robin Levine to try to evacuate the library. She told students, "You need to leave now, this is not a joke," but the protesters refused to vacate the building, telling her, "you're lying" and "prove it."

Fox News:

The New York Police Department took multiple protesters into custody at Barnard College late Wednesday after students occupied the school library to protest the expulsion of three students.

On Wednesday evening, the NYPD was called to the Milstein Center on the prestigious campus after a bomb threat and hours of anti-Israel agitators demonstrating inside the campus building.

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The protests came after the New York City-based university took disciplinary action against anti-Israel agitators who broke into Hamilton Hall at Columbia University's New York City campus in April 2024.

The Columbia University Apartheid Divest group said in a news release Monday that Barnard College, which is part of Columbia University, expelled three students.

One student was expelled for participating in the occupation last April, while another was suspended for their involvement. Barnard also expelled two students for disrupting a class called the "History of Modern Israel." The duo allegedly wore headscarves to hide their faces when they ran into the classroom and threw antisemitic pamphlets around the room.

"Under federal law, we cannot comment on the academic and disciplinary records of students. That said, as a matter of principle and policy, Barnard will always take decisive action to protect our community as a place where learning thrives, individuals feel safe, and higher education is celebrated," Barnard President Laura Rosenbury said in a statement. "This means upholding the highest standards and acting when those standards are threatened.

In a statement, Columbia University leadership said the latest campus disruption "is not acceptable conduct."

Now comes the turn: Trump and Rubio have had it with foreign agent "students" intimidating other students (Jewish students in particular) and breaking American law. Probably at the behest of foreign governments and/or terror groups.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

BREAKING: Per a senior State Department official, yesterday, the State Dept. revoked the first visa for an "alien who was previously cited for criminal behavior in connection with Hamas-supporting disruptions".

I'm told this person was a university student, and "ICE will proceed with removing this person from the country."

The official says the State Dept. reviewed over 100,000 visas, and records showed the Biden administration canceled zero visas for pro Hamas activities or associated criminal behavior, despite the wave of protests on college campuses that broke out after the 10/7/2023 terror attacks on Israel.

Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio

Those who support designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas, threaten our national security. The United States has zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists. Violators of U.S. law -- including international students -- face visa denial or revocation, and deportation.

Marco Rubio's State Department will execute a "Catch and Revoke" program, deporting foreign terror-supporting radicals engaging in illegal "protests."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled "Catch and Revoke" effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups, senior State Department officials tell Axios.

Why it matters: The effort -- which includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts -- marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' conduct and speech.

The reviews of social media accounts are particularly looking for evidence of alleged terrorist sympathies expressed after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, officials say.

Officials plan to examine internal databases to see whether any visa holders were arrested but allowed to stay in the country during the Biden administration.

They say they're also checking news reports of anti-Israel demonstrations and Jewish students' lawsuits that highlight foreign nationals allegedly engaged in antisemitic activity without consequence.

The State Department is working with the departments of Justice and Homeland Security in what one senior State official called a "whole of government and whole of authority approach."

Update: It gets worse for Columbia.

The Free Press:

The Trump administration is cutting off $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University, claiming it has failed to take steps to confront antisemitism on campus after Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, The Free Press has learned.

The cuts represent the federal government's first round of grant cancellations for Columbia, according to the administration's newly formed antisemitism task force, which is leading the effort. Columbia has over $5 billion in active federal grants that are being reviewed by the government.

Leo Terrell, the head of the DOJ's antisemitism task force, said the funding cuts are "only the beginning."

"Universities must comply with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding," Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement. "For too long, Columbia has abandoned that obligation to Jewish students studying on its campus."

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