DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants

The Department of Homeland Security volition commencement monitoring the societal media accounts of each immigrants to the U.S. for “antisemitism,” effectual immediately, according to a connection from the authorities bureau released Wednesday. The announcement comes arsenic DHS continues to purge the United States of immoderate immigrants who knock the actions of the Israeli authorities successful Gaza, wherever implicit 50,000 radical person been killed since precocious 2023.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is simply a portion of DHS, volition show societal media contented that it says is “endorsing, espousing, promoting, oregon supporting antisemitic terrorism, antisemitic violent organizations, oregon different antisemitic activity,” according to the statement.

“There is nary country successful the United States for the remainder of the world’s violent sympathizers, and we are nether nary work to admit them oregon fto them enactment here,” said DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin. “Sec. Noem has made it wide that anyone who thinks they tin travel to America and fell down the First Amendment to advocator for anti-Semitic unit and terrorism—think again. You are not invited here.”

Peaceful activism was antecedently protected successful the U.S. nether the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, though that’s changed rapidly since President Donald Trump took powerfulness again connected January 20, the aforesaid time Elon Musk made Nazi-style salutes to footwear disconnected his presidency. The explanation of “antisemitism” isn’t defined by DHS and has been utilized arsenic a pretext by U.S. authorities successful caller weeks to revoke the visas of planetary students who person done thing antisemitic, but alternatively person simply spoken retired against the warfare successful Gaza.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD pupil astatine Tufts University, was precocious abducted by masked agents of the authorities adjacent Boston. The concealed constabulary wore nary azygous and yet conscionable picked up Ozturk due to the fact that the authorities says she engaged successful “antisemitism,” and enactment for “terrorists.” But her lone transgression appears to person been penning an sentiment portion successful the pupil paper calling for an extremity to Israel’s warfare connected Gaza. Ozturk was rapidly flown to an ICE detention installation thousands of miles distant successful Louisiana, and she has reportedly been denied entree to an inhaler during asthma attacks, a wide quality rights violation. Ozturk’s lawsuit is presently being litigated successful Vermont, wherever a justice has denied a petition that she beryllium released.

Other activists who’ve said and done thing adjacent remotely antisemitic person besides been abducted by concealed constabulary successful caller weeks, including Mahmoud Khalil who’s joined to a U.S. citizen. Khalil, who led pro-Palestine protests astatine Columbia University, has been charged with nary transgression but the U.S. authorities is inactive trying to deport him nether the guise of warring antisemitism. Columbia University, similar galore different universities astir the U.S., had $400 cardinal successful national backing threatened by the Trump authorities earlier it agreed to spot its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department into federal receivership, efficaciously allowing Trump’s authorities to find however the section functions.

The U.S. is besides shipping radical to an El Salvador torture situation nether the pretext of going aft gangs, though a caller investigation by Bloomberg News recovered that 90% of the people sent by the U.S. to the state person committed nary transgression successful America. The Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, precocious visited the notorious prison, posing for a photo-op that volition surely beryllium successful textbooks of the aboriginal astir America’s descent into fascism nether President Trump.

For his part, Trump has repeatedly said highly antisemitic things portion inactive pledging enactment for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump shocked the satellite erstwhile helium said astatine a property league with the Israeli person successful February that the U.S. volition “own” Gaza and that the territory should beryllium emptied of each Palestinians truthful that it tin beryllium developed anew.

Palestinian children stitchery successful ample numbers to person the meals distributed by charities successful the Nuseirat exile camp, successful the cardinal portion of Gaza connected April 6, 2025. © Photo by Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty Images

Prominent accounts connected X person called for an probe into Ms. Rachel, an online influencer who’s highly fashionable with toddlers. Ms. Rachel, whose existent sanction is Rachel Griffin Accurso, has been accused of disseminating “Hamas-aligned propaganda to her millions of followers” by @StopAntisemitism, which says it has made a referral to the U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. Rachel’s “propaganda” includes specified inflammatory lines as, “I attraction profoundly for each children. Palestinian children, Israeli children, children successful the US—Muslim, Jewish, Christian children—all children, successful each country. Not 1 is excluded.”

The warfare successful Gaza rages on, with the latest airstrike successful Gaza City sidesplitting astatine slightest 23 radical connected Wednesday, including 8 children, and leaving dozens much wounded, according to the New York Times. Roughly 20 radical are reportedly missing successful the rubble of this caller airstrike, but determination isn’t capable instrumentality to search, the paper reports.

Israel imposed a full blockade connected nutrient and supplies entering Gaza astatine the commencement of March, the longest prohibition connected nutrient entering the territory since the warfare began connected October 7, 2023. Markets are empty, bakeries are closed and nutrient is moving out, according to the latest reporting from Reuters. But if you’re an migrant to the U.S., pointing retired this elemental information mightiness not lone get you denied introduction to the country. You could beryllium sent to an ICE attraction campy oregon perchance worse, based connected the trajectory of the Trump regime’s actions.