President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that promised to revoke the visas of international students who participated in pro-Palestine protests.

The move – which Trump said seeks to “combat antisemitism” – is one of the president’s most recent executive orders signed since entering office. Pro-Palestine protests took place on the UCLA campus last spring, leading to the arrests of over 200 people, including international students.

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“We put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” Trump said in a fact sheet detailing the order. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”

The order references an immigration law that allows for the deportation of a noncitizen who “endorses or espouses” a terrorist organization, including Hamas, which the United States classified as a terrorist group in 1997.

Undergraduate Students Association Council President Adam Tfayli said he believes around 10-20% of those arrested in pro-Palestine protests last spring were international students. The Daily Bruin was unable to verify this claim.

Tfayli, who participated in the first Palestine solidarity encampment at UCLA, added that he believes the order infringes upon freedom of speech.

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“It’s very worrying,” he said. “I think it violates, to a certain extent, freedom of speech in many ways, just because only one side is being targeted.”

Tfayli added that he would meet with members of the UCLA administration to explore protections for students.

The fact sheet also promises to use the U.S. Department of Justice to punish antisemitism in “leftist, anti-American colleges and universities.”

Stett Holbrook, a UC Office of the President spokesperson, said the University is currently reviewing the president’s order.

UCLA has faced allegations of antisemitism before, during and following the first encampment in April.

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Three Jewish students sued the university in May, claiming they faced antisemitic harassment from pro-Palestine protesters who allegedly created a “Jew Exclusion Zone” in areas within and surrounding the encampment. A federal judge sided with the plaintiffs in August, ordering a preliminary injunction requiring UCLA to keep campus activities accessible to Jewish students – or prohibit them from happening at all.

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However, Thomas Harvey, an attorney for Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UCLA, rejected the claim that the encampment was antisemitic, citing the fact that it took part in Jewish traditions such as a Seder and Shabbat.

“The encampment in no way discriminated against anyone on the basis of religion,” he said. “It’s outrageous to believe that anyone within that encampment was intending to, trying to, prevent people from coming in because they are Jewish.”