Trump Executive Order 13899:  Combatting Antisemitism

Executive Order 13899--Combating Anti-Semitism

Executive Order 13899--Combating Anti-Semitism (PDF)

According to Pastor, Chuck Baldwin, Trump's EO is a constitutional overreach:

Trump’s Abominable, Reprehensible And Downright Tyrannical Executive Order (12/19/2019)

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I’ll make this column short and to the point. 

Trump's executive order—deceptively called “An Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism”—issued this past week, will empower the federal Department of Education to withhold funding to college campuses that do not squash anti-Israel rhetoric. In other words, it is now official government policy to deny college students and faculty members their Natural and constitutional right to criticize—especially and primarily if they criticize any and all things Israel. This will also doubtless include speech that supports Palestinian rights. 

Trump also declared that the religion of Judaism is a nationality or ethnicity and is beyond criticism. Can you imagine the outcry if he had declared Christianity to be a nationality?

Plus, by issuing this Executive Order, Donald Trump has made every Christian and non-Jew in the United States a second-class citizen. But don’t expect Robert Jeffress and his gaggle of Christian Zionists to figure that out.

I have said repeatedly that Donald Trump is America's first Zionist president. And Trump's actions continue to prove that statement true.  (More)

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VOX:  Trump’s executive order on campus anti-Semitism, explained -- No, Trump isn’t reclassifying Judaism as a nationality. Here’s what he’s doing instead.

The draft executive order largely restates the Obama administration’s position.

It provides that “while Title VI does not cover discrimination based on religion, individuals who face discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin do not lose protection under Title VI for also being a member of a group that shares common religious practices.” “Discrimination against Jews,” it continues, “may give rise to a Title VI violation when the discrimination is based on an individual’s race, color, or national origin.”

The executive order’s general toothlessness, then, is not a reason to give up all concern. Instead, it’s a useful way to draw attention to an oft-ignored threat to free speech on campus: the Republican Party’s increasing alignment with Israel’s most aggressive right-wing defenders. (More)