Critics say the executive order targets criticism of Israel, particularly the "Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel movement" known as BDS.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday designed to cut off aid to colleges that tolerate anti-Semitism, though some critics called it an effort to stifle free speech and criticism of Israel.
A White House statement said the order is written so as to enshrine "the definition from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance of anti-Semitism into an executive order, and clarify that Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act applies to anti-Semitic acts.
The U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights criticized the order as an attempt to silence protests against Israel, saying in a statement that it is"a clear instrument of repression targeting activism for freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people on college campuses." Halie Soifer, the executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, said"we strongly denounce these vile and bigoted remarks in which the president – once again – used anti-Semitic stereotypes to characterize Jews as driven by money and insufficiently loyal to Israel."
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