Trump 2019 Executive Order on Anti-Semitism Expected to Spur Flood of Lawsuits Against Colleges and Universities
“In 2019, then-President Donald Trump signed an order instructing federal officials to expand the interpretation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act”
Good. Sue them all into oblivion. This is the only way they will listen.
NBC News reports:
Trump-era antisemitism policy expected to fuel flood of student lawsuits against universities
As campuses across the country continue to erupt in protests over the Israel-Hamas war, a little-known 2019 presidential executive order is expected to fuel a flood of student legal claims against universities.
Attorneys — from a mix of white-shoe corporate firms to Jewish advocacy groups — are meeting with students who say their schools are failing to protect them from antisemitic or anti-Israel conduct.
In 2019, then-President Donald Trump signed an order instructing federal officials to expand the interpretation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include “discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism” as a form of discrimination based on race, color and national origin — prohibited behavior for programs that get federal funding. Trump signed the order amid a series of violent incidents against Jews, including the 2018 killing of 11 congregants in a Pittsburgh synagogue and a 2019 attack that killed three inside a Kosher supermarket in New Jersey.
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not include the word “religion” as a subject of discrimination. Because the law does not list religious characteristics, legal experts say, federal officials have gradually expanded interpretations to include ethnoreligious groups.
Trump told federal agencies “to consider” using the Sweden-based International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, which includes “holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel” and “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”
The alliance promotes Holocaust education and research, and has come under criticism by both Jewish and non-Jewish groups for suggesting that broad criticism of Israel can be construed as antisemitic.
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Who decides what is antisemitic? What does it mean to be Jewish? The Bible makes it clear that Jewishness is a matter of the head, the heart, and the ancestry. There is no valid reason to despise the Jews as a people. There is no moral or legal reason to deny Israel the right to exist.
Since when do bigots care about legal or moral reasons?
If I read the article correctly, the EO forbids sch acts for universities receiving federal funds. This could lead to problems with that money supply chain.
***In 2019, then-President Donald Trump signed an order instructing federal officials to expand the interpretation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include “discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism” as a form of discrimination based on race, color and national origin — prohibited behavior for programs that get federal funding***
Sorry. Your comment is stupid.
What does it mean to be racist? What is a race? What does it mean to be sexist?
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
You don’t seem to have read the comment adequately.
When the idiots call Trump antisemitic, I always point to what he did here.