for several years. Now they’re teaming up off it as businessmen.
“Entire university departments have been corrupted by jihadis,” Levy said in a recent e-mail exchange with the AP.Days before his arrest, Khalil said in
that he was aware of Betar’s call for his deportation and that it and other groups were trying to use him as a “scapegoat.”Students protesting Israel’s conduct in Gaza have been unsure what to make of Betar, which the Anti-Defamation League recently added to its list of extremist groups. The ADL has also voiced support for revoking the visas of foreign student activists.At the University of Pittsburgh, leaders of Students for Justice in Palestine said they spoke with police in November after an online message from Betar that said it would be visiting the school to “give you beepers” — an apparent reference to Israel’s detonation of thousands of electronic pagers last fall to kill and wound members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia.
Ross Glick, who was Betar’s executive director at the time, said that the message was “a tongue-in-cheek dark joke,” not a threat.Both sides said police eventually decided no action was warranted. Months later, Betar said that Pitt students were among those on its deportation list.
The efforts to target protesters have fueled anxiety among international students involved in campus activism.
“They’ve abducted someone on our campus, and that is a key source of our fear,” said the Columbia student from South Asia.Wednesday and is unlikely to rule for at least several weeks.
Meanwhile, the same people challenging the bans — Wellspring Health Access, the abortion access advocacy group Chelsea’s Fund, and four women, including two obstetricians — have sued to block Wyoming’s most recent two abortion laws.The surgical center licensing requirement would require costly renovations to make Wellspring Health Access compliant, the clinic said in its lawsuit.
Gordon vetoed the requirement for an ultrasound at least 48 hours before a pill abortion, calling it onerous in cases of abuse, rape, or when a woman’s health is at risk.the veto on March 5.