(Jewish Group) The Tell: Executive order disorder

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‘Tis the season for so much news!

In addition to another deadly attack on U.S. Jews, a much anticipated British election and the announcement that Israel is going to have a third election in less than a year, President Trump issued an executive order on anti-Semitism.

Let’s break down that last one.

Defining Jews, defining anti-Semitism

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday — in time for his annual Hanukkah parties — directing “robust” enforcement of existing civil rights protections for Jews on campus. Trump cites Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits federal funding for discriminatory programs. He says “students, in particular, continue to face anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on university and college campuses.”

The order represents a significant change in policy, having to do with how one defines anti-Semitism and how anti-Israel activism plays a role.

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1. Very interesting article you linked. Other views are helpful