Trump to Sign Executive Order Tackling Anti-Semitism at U.S. Colleges
By: ZACHARY EVANS
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to target anti-Semitism on college campuses, the New York Times reported on Tuesday evening.
The order will define Judaism as a nationality in addition to a religion, which would allow the Department of Education to withhold funding from colleges that are too accepting of anti-Israel movements.
Trump’s executive order will be based on the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by the State Department, which deems “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination” anti-Semitic. While many Jews consider anti-Zionism to be a form of anti-Semitism, some critics claim that that definition makes it harder to criticize Israeli policies they disagree with.
The DOE has already reprimanded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after a complaint of anti-Semitism on campus. In September, it ordered UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University to overhaul their joint Middle East Studies program, saying the program was biased and did not portray the historic discrimination against minorities in Islamic countries.
President Trump has implemented several pro-Israel policies over the course of his tenure that broke with past U.S. policy, including recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving the U.S. embassy to the city.
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This is a great step forward, not only in combating Anti-Semitism, but the left's control of American universities.
Rules of civility apply
" In signing the order, Mr. Trump will use his executive power to take action where Congress has not, essentially replicating bipartisan legislation that has stalled on Capitol Hill for years. Prominent Democrats have joined Republicans in promoting such a policy change at a time of rising tension on campuses over anti-Semitism as well as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions or B.D.S. movement against Israel…
Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the department can withhold funding from any college or educational program that discriminates “on the ground of race, color, or national origin.” Religion was not included among the protected categories, so Mr. Trump’s order will declare that Judaism may be considered a national origin.
The definition of anti-Semitism to be adopted from the State Department and originally formulated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance includes “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.”
It's about time something gets done. College's have been moving further into the PC culture and the extreme leftist policy and leaving students minds in the dust along the way. This world has changed so much that people are no longer motivated to do what is right unless there is a financial penalty attached. But one question, where will the first law suit to stall this come from?
Who shall dare do it? Will it be the old proponents of Civil Rights protections, now on the other side of the fence?
My guess is it will be one of the privately owned bastions of higher learning and their reasoning behind it is this goes against free speech.
The very people who have allowed denial of speech to Conservative speakers are now whining about "free speech"!
So... Criticize Israeli policies, lose your funding? So much for the first amendment.
TEACHING.....is the fundamental REQUIREMENT of "Schools". Not "Band Standing" one way or another for EVERY education course !
School is supposed to be the 3 R's to get you ready for "Life" in the real world.....unless you take some "Feelings" course as your major …. Like trying to get a master's degree in social justice !
3Rs? We're talking college here right? Not the third grade.
Sorry !
When "Safe Spaces" are more important to "College" aged students than learning..... The 3R's really is over their heads !
Should I have actually spelled out "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" Instead ?
"3 R's" can be confusing to some.
I think we all know the difference between criticizing Israel and anti-Semitism.
here's an example of antisemitism. too be fair, I don't think many of these [ deleted ] demonstrators were students at this university.
Ya, that would be an example. I'm sure you wouldn't object to that school's federal funds being withheld.
what example? what school? delete then comment on those difficult (and on topic) issues from the recent past? going to lock this seed after having the last word on all the threads again? are those conservative values? I'm catching a big whiff of hypocrisy here vic. delete away...
I won't hesitate.
Ilhan Omar is gonna be one pissed off congressional newbie !
Ditto for her anti-semitic gal pal Tlaib.
Trump should start with his own speeches.
Does this mean all American Jews are now automatically dual citizens of Israel?
Not in your and Omar's wildest dreams, and besides, not according to Israel law.
I was being sarcastic. It's a stupid idea and I think we agree on that.
It’s not, though. It’s a religion. Period.
I really wish people - no matter how well-intentioned - would stop trying to change the meaning of words that already have a meaning just so they can accomplish an agenda. This is the second time in a week or so that we have seen Trump talk about doing this. The other is the ongoing effort to label Mexican drug cartels as terrorists. Again: nice sentiment; wrong path.
I support Israel and I’m all for discouraging anti-semitism, but if they’re going to say that being critical of Israel is automatically anti-semitic, I think that’s an illogical connection. Sometimes anti-Israel or anti-Zionist sentiment is rooted in anti-semitism. In fact, it’s often true, but it’s not always true. Where it is true, we already have a system in place attack the anti-semitism.
This new EO seems unnecessary and it’s probably also going to be unconstitutional because you aren’t supposed to be able to punish people (in this case, by depriving them of federal funding) for their political views.
"They" are NOT going to say that being critical of Israel is automatically antisemitic. The guideline for that has been stated already to be antisemitism as defined by the International Holocaust Memorial Alliance, a definition adopted by many countries including the USA:
In other words, holding Israel to a double standard, singling out Israel but ignoring what other countries do the same or worse, is what is antisemitic.
I have been critical of the State of Israel, Zionists who think they are holier than other Jews, the government of Israel, its leaders, its Judiciary, the IDF, the settlers, and especially the Ultra-Orthodox, and anyone who knows me or what I've posted would realize that calling me an anti-Semite would be ridiculous.
However, I too think that this will be challenged, and it will be challenged by the BDS supporting organizations, by the self-loathing Jews of J-Street, Jews for Justice in Palestine, and others who have been complicit in harassing Jews on campuses on the basis that it is contrary to the First Amendment. They will DEMAND the right to block Israeli speakers and to permit demonstrations that threaten and humiliate Jewish students.
By the way, please inform what the system is that is already in place to attack antisemitism, because I have not noticed in any report what that is, whether it's effective, and whether it is even used at all.
Isn't that what this is actually doing?
This crap EO is basically saying a religion is a nationality. A Jewish collective.
Isn't that going against itself?
I'm only referring to that already mentioned in the article. Thus:
So, it seems like we're already responding to anti-semitism.
You mean you disagree with the way the State Department defines "Anti-Semitism?
This new EO seems unnecessary and it’s probably also going to be unconstitutional because you aren’t supposed to be able to punish people (in this case, by depriving them of federal funding) for their political views.
Obama used federal funding of universities to get them to deny due process to students accused of rape.
Federal funding invites this sort of thing:
From July 2017
"In a series of meetings this month, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos signaled strong disagreement with the Obama administration’s aggressive erosion of due process protections for college students accused of sexual assault. While deploring the horrors of the offense, DeVos added that “ a system without due process protections … serves no one.”
This was a welcome change from the decrees issued by the Obama-era Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which had told colleges to avoid any due process safeguards that would “restrict or unnecessarily delay the protections provided by Title IX” to accusers."
Nice derail of your own seed...but Obama!
It goes right to the heart of federal money being qualified. Nobody politicized it better than Obama.
I support the 5th Amendment just like I support the 1st Amendment.
The use of the government spending power is easily abused by people of either party to get what they want. It can be a good thing, but it can also be implemented in a way that corrupts justice.
Whatever else it may have done, federal funding of the university has mostly promoted federal policies. It has to pass the shoes on the other foot test.
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