Universities in countries whose governments are hostile to Israel have made a compelling offer to pro-Hamas agitators staging protests and rallies on college campuses across the country. The students who have been expelled for engaging in violence, vandalism, and other activities could have an opportunity to attend school in Iran or Yemen.

PressTV, an Iranian propaganda outlet, published a report detailing how the head of Shiraz University in Iran indicated that the institution would grant scholarships to those who have been expelled.

Head of Shiraz University, Mohammad Moazzeni, announced the decision at a gathering of university students and professors of Shiraz, the capital city of the southern Iranian province of Fars, in solidarity with American and European students supporting Palestinians in the months-long Israeli aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip.

He said what is taking place in Gaza reveals the nature of Western civilization and the truthfulness of the message of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, one of the great causes of which was supporting Palestine.

Moazzeni criticized the harsh treatment of student protesters by the police in the US and Europe, saying, “They exert a lot of violence in order to contain this raging movement and have even threatened to expel the students from universities and hinder their employment in the future, and such autocratic methods show the decline of global arrogance.”

Moazzeni asserted that “Students and even professors who have been expelled or threatened with expulsion can continue their studies at Shiraz University” and suggested that other schools in Iran might make the same offer.

The Houthis, an Iran-backed militia currently fighting in Yemen, have also extended a similar invitation to pro-Hamas protesters in the United States. The Houthis have been disrupting global shipping, launching drones and rockets at cargo ships traveling through the Red Sea. The group has particularly targeted vessels tied to Israel.

“We are serious about welcoming students that have been suspended from U.S. universities for supporting Palestinians,” an official at Sanaa University, which is run by the Houthis, told Reuters. “We are fighting this battle with Palestine in every way we can.”

Sanaa University had issued a statement applauding the “humanitarian” position of the students in the United States and said they could continue their studies in Yemen.

“The board of the university condemns what academics and students of U.S. and European universities are being subjected to, suppression of freedom of expression,” the board of the university said in a statement, which included an email address for any students wanting to take up their offer.

The move has been met with mockery from those opposing the antics of pro-Hamas activists on college campuses. Columnist Jonathan Turley wrote an op-ed slamming Shiraz’s offer.

Now this could truly be educational. ... This could be the single most transformative educational experience of their lives. Of course, Iran is better known for floggings than free speech. Iran is particularly prone to such contradictions like executing homosexuals while denying that there are any homosexuals in Iran or objecting to the treatment of protesters in the West while jailing, beating and killing protesters.

Turley also cautioned students considering the offer that “vegan meals are not available at Iranian protests” and noted that the regime “has ordered the arrest and killing of writers and artists while holding such fun events as a cartoon competition on the Holocaust.”