Nathan Diament
Deseret News, Mar. 5, 2025
“A new poll conducted by the American Jewish Committee shows American Jews — a longstanding pillar of the Democratic Party — have more confidence in how Republicans are responding to the antisemitism crisis.”
If there’s one takeaway from the 1-month-old Trump administration, it’s this: President Donald Trump and his team are determined to move fast and hard on a range of issues they view as Biden administration failures.
It took Trump’s administration less than three weeks to meet the exploding antisemitism crisis with the kind of high-profile, all-of-government response it deserves. In a sign of his top priorities, Trump issued a Jan. 29 executive order expanding his first-term order, declaring the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism as executive branch policy in all cabinet agencies. He also directed the Departments of Justice, Education and Homeland Security to report back in 60 days what new steps they can take to fight Jew-hatred.
In the subsequent weeks, the Department of Education launched antisemitism investigations into five universities, the Department of Health and Human Services opened investigations at four medical schools and the Department of Justice stood up a new multi-agency task force to ready more action.
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