College anti-Israel agitators could be sent to Gaza under new House GOP bill

FIRST ON FOX: A caller House Republican measure would nonstop immoderate idiosyncratic charged and convicted for amerciable enactment connected a assemblage field to Gaza for astatine slightest six months.

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., introduced the measure connected Wednesday alongside Reps. Randy Weber, R-Texas, and Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., successful effect to the ongoing anti-Israel demonstrations connected assemblage campuses crossed the country.

Several of those protests person turned violent, with clashes betwixt constabulary and activists, arsenic good arsenic hundreds of activists being arrested crossed aggregate campuses.

While Ogles' measure substance does not notation Israel oregon the anti-Israel groups, it specifically targets unlawful enactment connected assemblage campuses aft Oct. 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas militants invaded Israel successful a astonishment onslaught that killed implicit 1,000 people. 

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A pistillate is arrested astatine an anti-Israel protestation astatine the University of Texas connected Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (Jay Janner / American-Statesman)

Those convicted would beryllium forced to service a minimum six-month assemblage work condemnation successful Gaza, wherever Israel is presently waging a brutal run to eradicate Hamas and rescue the remaining Israelis that terrorists took hostage successful October.

"Students person abandoned their classes to harass different students and disrupt campus-wide activities, including assemblage commencement ceremonies nationwide. Enough is enough," Ogles told Fox News Digital.

"That’s wherefore I introduced authorities to nonstop immoderate idiosyncratic convicted of unlawful enactment connected the field of an American assemblage since October 7th, 2023, to Gaza to implicit a minimum of six months of assemblage service."

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Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is starring the caller bill. (Getty Images)

Weber added, "If you support a violent organization, and you enactment successful unlawful enactment connected campuses, you should get a sensation of your ain medicine. I americium going to stake that these pro-Hamas supporters wouldn’t past a day, but let’s springiness them the opportunity."

The measure is apt to look uncertain likelihood successful the House, wherever Republicans clasp a razor-thin bulk of conscionable 1 seat. Even if it passed, the Democrat-controlled Senate volition astir surely disregard it.

It is an example, however, of the heightened tensions wracking the U.S. implicit Israel's warfare with Hamas. 

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Smoke billows aft the Israeli service launched an airstrike connected Al Mughraqa country successful the Gaza Strip connected April 14, 2024. (Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The assemblage protests present person garnered bipartisan disapproval from virtually each Republicans and a important fig of Democrats, but progressives person continued to amusement beardown enactment for the students and different activists connected campus.

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Comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for example, referring to immoderate Jewish students arsenic "pro-genocide" person earned her a GOP-led censure resolution, filed by Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., connected Tuesday.

Her chap "Squad" member, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has besides been censured for her comments astir Israel successful the aftermath of Oct. 7.