Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation

Is this extremist Zionist group trying to protect Israel — or just punish left-wing Jews?

The militant Zionist group Betar made headlines earlier this year for compiling lists of international students for President Donald Trump’s administration to consider deporting over their criticism of the United States and Israel. Now, Betar has announced a new kind of list of supposed undesirables. But this time, they’re Jewish. The group has “submitted a list of names of Diaspora Jews who we recommend be banned from Israel to numerous Israeli…

UT students reach across the aisle in an era of deep division

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- As tempers flare over President Trump's flurry of executive actions and the Democratic Party's response, some University of Texas students are coming together to bridge partisan divides. The student organization Bridge Texas is bringing people together to debate the news of the day, as Atidna, another student organization, does the same for supporters of Israel and Palestinians. Both organizations have emerged against a backdrop…

Student Journalists Grapple With Publishing Protesters’ Names

Traditional journalistic wisdom says publications should rarely edit a source’s name out of an already-published article. Trump’s crackdown on foreign students is changing that. In the wake of attacks on international students—especially pro-Palestinian protesters—student newspapers are grappling with questions of if and how to protect protesters whom they have featured in articles, activists who have contributed opinion pieces and even their ow…

Free speech at issue after U-T deletes, later reinstates student's op-ed on UCSD protests

San Diego Sheriff’s deputies confront pro-Palestine protesters on the UC San Diego campus. (File photo by Adrian Childress/Times of San Diego) A controversy about an op-ed in the San Diego Union-Tribune by a student at UC San Diego in the wake of violent responses to pro-Palestinian protests has stirred a conversation about free speech, its limits, and who has a right to speak — and about what. For decades, universities have held themselves out …

US university campuses hit by antisemitism inquisition

One aspect of the witch hunt on U.S. campuses is called doxxing, which refers to the act of revealing an individual’s personal information in order to intimidate, threaten or harass them. In other words, it is an inquisition that targets those who have raised their voices against Israel’s merciless bombardment of Gaza since October 2023. Although the Trump administration is now leading this offensive, it was going on months before the Republican…