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“Not in Our Name”: Jewish Activists Take Over Capitol to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza [1]

['Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani', 'Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling', 'Edith Olmsted']

Date: 2023-10-18

“Anyone who stands up and says they want to kill Jews, they support terrorism, they should have that visa revoked,” Scott said on a podcast episode of The Sean Hannity Show.

DeSantis backed the Rubio proposal, noting on an airing of The Guy Benson Show that if someone supports Hamas, they “don’t have a right to be studying in the United States.”

On its face, proposing to deport or limit Hamas supporters’ entry into the country is not outrageous. After all, the State Department deemed Hamas a terrorist organization in 1997. But support for foreign terrorist organizations is already screened for in people seeking entrance into the U.S., so the new language utilized by Rubio and his compatriots achieves no policy gains but instead provokes fear and whips people into a frenzy at a time of historic tension and divisions. And at a time when lawmakers and the media alike keep confusing being pro-Palestinian with being pro-Hamas, it’s all but guaranteed such a proposal would be used in a very dangerous way.

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[1] Url: https://newrepublic.com/post/176335/jewish-activists-protest-capitol-demand-ceasefire-gaza-arrest

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