New York University suspends student radicals as President Trump begins crackdown on anti-Semitism

 January 30, 2025

Barron Trump's university has suspended a dozen students for one year over their role in anti-Israel protests, as President Trump threatens to deport foreign students who sympathize with Hamas.

New York University, where Barron studies business, was a hotbed of protests that swept elite campuses last year over Israel's war with Hamas. University administrators faced criticism for their handling of the unrest, with the presidents of Columbia, Harvard, and UPenn stepping aside over accusations that they coddled anti-Semitic radicals.

NYU suspends students

On the other hand, student protesters have accused universities of censorship, with NYU facing criticism for suspending a dozen students who participated in a December sit-in at Bobst library.

"In a draconian case of collective punishment, NYU has issued blanket year-long suspensions to students who participated in nonviolent protest on campus on December 11, 2024," NYU's Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) wrote in an Instagram post. "As of today, at least eleven students have been suspended until January 2026."

The school says the students were "not peaceful" and that they violated school policy by disrupting finals week.

"Rather, it was the intentional disruption of a library, over the course of two days, at a critical academic moment — on the eve of finals. This disruption was accompanied by threats of violence directed at senior members of the university community," university spokesman John Beckham told Fox News Digital.

Trump's crackdown

With some universities taking action against their students, President Trump is using the power of the federal government to maintain order on campuses.

Indeed, Trump has said he will deport foreign students who sympathize with Hamas terrorists, part of a crackdown by Trump on anti-Semitism in higher education.

“To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before,” Trump said in a White House fact sheet.

The president's son, Barron Trump, began studying at NYU's Stern School of Business in the fall, and he has become the talk of campus.

"He’s a ladies man for sure. He’s really popular with the ladies," a source told People. "He’s tall and handsome. A lot of people seem to think he’s pretty attractive — yes, even liberal people like him.”

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