Liel Leibovitz
Israel Hayom, Feb. 21, 2025
“Before Biden’s election, antisemitism on campuses was limited to a few. After the Democrats’ return to the White House, every university began establishing DEI departments at a dizzying pace, and staffed them with faculty members who saw hatred of Israel not only as a legitimate opinion but also as a moral duty of anyone who considers themselves a good progressive.”
It will be the policy of the United States to fight antisemitism vigorously, and to use all legal means at our disposal to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold accountable those who commit unlawful acts of harassment and violence motivated by antisemitism.
This unequivocal declaration comes from President Donald Trump’s executive order issued earlier this month. The order gives all federal agencies exactly 60 days to propose new and muscular ways to eradicate the meteoric rise in antisemitism in the US. In the year and a half since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, the number of antisemitic incidents in the US, according to Anti-Defamation League data, has surged by over 200%, with more than 10,000 cases of harassment, threats, vandalism and outright violence against Jews. Of these, over 2,000 incidents occurred on university campuses – an increase of nearly 500%.
To understand why Trump’s executive order is so important, and what exactly it can do, we must first understand the reality that preceded the election of the 47th president, namely Joe Biden’s years in the White House…..SOURCE