President Donald Trump will soon sign an executive order that marshals all federal resources to combat anti-Semitism and demands the deportation of anti-Semitic demonstrators who violated U.S. laws, including students on visas.
A White House document on the executive order expected to be signed Wednesday, obtained by The Daily Wire, directs agency heads to submit recommendations to the Trump administration within 60 days, outlining all of the available tools to combat anti-Semitism.
Under the order, the Justice Department is instructed to quell pro-Hamas vandalism and intimidation by investigating and punishing “anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities.”
The order comes in response to a rise in anti-Semitic protests following Hamas’ rape, murder, and kidnapping of Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023. Many of these protests have taken place on college campuses, where students have been documented defending Hamas’ attack, chanting ethnic cleansing slogans, committing vandalism, and setting up encampments that have led to the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students
Anti-Semitic incidents on campus have surged over 500% since the October 7 attack, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The document accuses the Biden administration of refusing to protect American Jews’ civil rights and of “turning a blind eye to this coordinated assault on public order.”
Congress has led efforts to investigate and punish universities that did not and are still not working to curb anti-Semitism on their campuses.
A December congressional report on anti-Semitism found that some of America’s most prominent universities not only refused to crack down on anti-Semitism, but they gave disparate disciplinary actions to Jewish students versus their antagonists.
“The failure of our federal government departments and agencies is astounding,” the report states.
In a September speech, Trump warned that he would “inform every college president that if you do not end anti-Semitic propaganda, they will lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support.”
He added that Jewish Americans must have “equal protection,” and that the United States government will not “subsidize the creation of terrorist sympathizers, and we’re not going to do it, certainly [not] on American soil.”
“The new Senate Republican majority is going to work with the Trump administration to enforce the law in the face of campuses that have fanned the flames of hate through inaction,” Senator Joni Ernst previously told The Daily Wire. “Elite universities have made their bed, and they’ve got to lie in it, but not on the taxpayers’ dime.”
