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FIRST ON FOX: In a Jan. 29 executive order, President Donald Trump directed additional measures to fight antisemitism, noting that Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks in Israel spawned “an unprecedented wave of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and violence against our citizens, especially in our schools and on our campuses.”
Leo Terrell, senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights who is heading up a new Justice Department Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, told Fox News Digital that the president has directed his task force “to use every tool in our toolbox as Department of Justice to stop this antisemitic behavior.”
He added that Attorney General Pam Bondi “has been following President Trump’s directive. … She has given me the green light to do everything possible and use the power of the federal government to stop this.”
Terrell said that since Oct. 7, the country “has turned its back on Jewish Americans at schools in day-to-day life,” with Jewish Americans not being “protected like other citizens,” including at colleges and in K-12 schools.
Antisemitic prejudice appears to be thriving within New York City Public Schools. A pressure group called the New York Public Schools Alliance, a network of concerned teachers, students and administrators led by co-founder Karen Feldman, undertook an investigation into alleged anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-American prejudice within the city’s public schools in October 2024.
The group said its findings demonstrate a failure to protect teachers and students against discrimination, the presence of implicitly and explicitly biased materials in education and curriculum development, and an atmosphere of political activism in schools that has “deepened divisions.”
TRUMP EDUCATION DEPT LAUNCHES PROBE INTO ‘EXPLOSION OF ANTISEMITISM’ AT 5 UNIVERSITIES’
Anti-Israel protesters stand outside the Susan E. Wagner High School in Staten Island. (Ary Weiss/Staten Island Shomrim)
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