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Let’s RICO the Organizers of Pro-Hamas Lawlessness

Both federal and state prosecutors should consider conspiracy and racketeering charges against the sponsors of these recurrent spates of lawlessness.
Let’s RICO the Organizers of Pro-Hamas Lawlessness
Columbia University students protest the Israel/Gaza conflict at Columbia University in New York City on April 27, 2024. Emel Akan/The Epoch Times
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First: Some advice to those Jewish students who feel threatened by pro-Hamas thugs: Don’t just whine. Don’t hide. Stand tall and proud. Use your constitutional right to self-defense.

Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” He also researched and wrote the scholarly article “Virgil and the Constitution,” whose publication is pending in Regent University Law Review.