Trump executive order on anti-Semitism stirs confusion by CEDickson
President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday giving the U.S. Department of Education broader authority to crack down on what he sees as anti-Semitic discrimination on college campuses.
However, initial reports of Trump’s plans to expand protections against anti-Semitism on campus prompted fear and confusion among many American Jews. Of particular concern was a report Tuesday by the New York Times that said the forthcoming executive order would “effectively interpret Judaism as a race or nationality, not just a religion.
Jared Kushner, the president’s Jewish son-in-law and advisor, further attempted to address that panic with an op-ed in the New York Times praising his father-in-law’s new policy. In an email to Yahoo News, New York Times Editor Jonathan Weisman, who edited the original article on the executive order, defended the paper’s reporting.
Weisman also noted that the Times on Wednesday published another article revealing that, well before Trump signed the executive order, the head of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education had already begun opening “national origin” investigations into possible discrimination against Jewish students by multiple universities.
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