Executive Order Ramps Up Protections Against Campus Anti-Semitism Surge
Published Date: 2/3/2025
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Summary
The President is stepping up to fight anti-Semitism, especially after a big spike in attacks on Jewish students following the 2023 Hamas attacks. This order makes sure schools and campuses protect Jewish students from harassment, discrimination, and violence. The government is now serious about enforcing these protections right away, with new actions starting in 2025 and funding to back them up.
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Federal push to protect Jewish students
On January 29, 2025, the President ordered the federal government to vigorously combat anti‑Semitism and to use all available legal tools to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold accountable perpetrators of unlawful anti‑Semitic harassment and violence, with an emphasis on protecting students on K–12 and college campuses after the October 7, 2023 attacks.
Colleges asked to monitor noncitizen activities
The Secretaries of State, Education, and Homeland Security must recommend ways to familiarize institutions of higher education with inadmissibility grounds under 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3) so colleges can monitor and report activities by alien students and staff, and those reports may lead, consistent with law, to investigations and actions to remove such aliens.
Education Department to inventory Title VI complaints
The Secretary of Education must include in a report an inventory and analysis of all Title VI complaints and administrative actions, including in K–12, related to anti‑Semitism that are pending or were resolved after October 7, 2023, which may inform enforcement actions by the Department's Office for Civil Rights.
Justice Department may use criminal laws
The Attorney General must include an inventory of court cases against institutions of higher education alleging civil‑rights violations tied to post‑October 7, 2023 campus anti‑Semitism and is encouraged to employ civil‑rights enforcement authorities, such as 18 U.S.C. 241, and to consider filing statements of interest or intervening.
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