Amir Kashfi felt a sigh of relief when he heard that President Donald Trump had signed an executive order to combat anti-Semitism and the burgeoning anti-Israel movement on college campuses.
The politics of the executive order seemed clear when it was signed Wednesday. Attending the signing ceremony were prominent Jews and evangelical Christians, Democrats and Republicans, and some big-name donors. Trump, at a party after the ceremony, lavished praise on Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson: “He’s got no cash problem — that, I can tell you.”
But across the country, Jewish communities viewed Trump’s order in competing and discordant ways. It came on the heels of a rampage in New Jersey in which four people were killed in what the authorities are investigating as an anti-Semitic attack and an act of domestic terrorism. And many Jews were struck by their religion being placed under civil rights protections aimed at race or “national origin.
Questions were also raised about applying Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which targets prejudice based on race, color and national origin, to Jews. Some in the White House worried that the move might have the opposite impact of what was intended, isolating Jews as a race or nationality and prompting more hate.
“The president and people in his administration are aggressively working to implement real policies confronting anti-Semitism, whether it is this in the education arena, or I’d say the Justice Department and the FBI,” said Nathan Diament, the center’s executive director. Beyond its impact for Jewish Americans, the move was also a political signal to Trump’s conservative evangelical base that he continues to support its policy priorities regarding Israel. Like Netanyahu, Trump has courted American evangelicals, often at the expense of more liberal Jewish communities.
So theres Jews that are for anti semitism? Lol
Lets get real u don't even like the Jewish ppls. The changeing of capital' was about Obama hate that fills ure mind 24/7 u better hope Ivanka don't devorse her hubby? Because i could see him spilling it for a book! blkprgrsv19 98%
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