Lost in the public outcry over targeting pro-Hamas protesters for visa revocation is the reality that the Biden administration did that in kind with Israelis without much scrutiny, according to George Mason University law professor Eugene Kontorovich.

Former President Joe Biden’s restrictions on Israelis “was just using the visa system to punish one’s political enemies,” said Kontorovich, who called Biden’s policy effectively a “Jew ban” in a published interview.

President Donald Trump’s administration’s targeting of pro-Hamas protest leaders like those at Columbia University is “far more restrained” than Biden’s was, but the latter never received the same scrutiny or legal opposition, according to Kontorovich.

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