Throughout all of his roughly two-month long administration, President Trump has done everything he can to show himself to be the best friend the Jewish people have ever had in the White House.
From day one, we’ve seen a virtual 180 from the previous administration, from the respect given to the Israeli hostages and their families at Trump’s inaugural parade, to the executive order on anti semitism, and the reversal of sanctions on Jews living in Judea and Samaria seemingly put on them for the crime of being Jews. We have also seen Israel being given the green light to essentially do whatever it needs to utterly defeat its enemies who want nothing more than to have a second Holocaust.
But Trump’s promise to deport pro-Hamas rioters on student visas and/or green cards is a wonderful idea that is thankfully now being carried out, much to the chagrin of the left and the Democrat Party.
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Hamas activist involved in the antisemitic student protests at Columbia University and Barnard College, was arrested by ICE approximately two weeks ago with the goal being potential deportation back to his home country of Syria. Khalil, despite being a former Columbia student, still lived in university-owned housing due to a school policy allowing former students to stay in their housing for months after their studies conclude.
One would think any foreigner with the privilege of being allowed to stay in the U.S. for any reason would have to do their best to be on good behavior, much less to not support a terrorist group, and that such a person should be deported immediately. But of course, the Jew-hating and America-hating left, with support from plenty of Democrats, proved once again that there really is no bottom for them.
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The obvious cases, such as the notoriously antisemitic “squad,” of course supported Khalil. But the most obvious example that likely surprised a lot of people is from the Senate Judiciary Democrats, who put out a statement on X demanding Khalil be released.
One would think a body run by Chuck Schumer, who claims the mantle of “Shomer Yisrael” (Hebrew for “guardian of Israel”), would be prevented from taking a position like that, but, in a choice between morality and immorality, good and evil, or leftism and any other value set, the Democrat Party always has a default choice made.
Then again, he has enough time to rail against Prime Minister Netanyahu for defending his country from Hitlerian disciples.
Luckily, the leftist Democrat seeming opposition to fighting antisemitism hasn’t stopped the president from helping to make American college campuses into safe places for Jews again.
The Trump administration has also been beginning to defund universities for failing to fight antisemitism.
Because of “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students,” the administration canceled grants and contracts totaling $400 million to Columbia University earlier this month.
“These cancelations represent the first round of action and additional cancelations are expected to follow,” the Department of Education stated at the time. Millions more in grants have been slashed since then.
Approximately 60 colleges have been warned by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights as well that they are under investigation for refusing to counter “antisemitic discrimination and harassment,” and that they could face enforcement actions if they do not step up their efforts to fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect their Jewish students.
As well, a special Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism was established early on in the Trump administration.
“Anti-Semitism in any environment is repugnant to this Nation’s ideals. The Department takes seriously our responsibility to eradicate this hatred wherever it is found. The Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is the first step in giving life to President Trump’s renewed commitment to ending anti-Semitism in our schools,” said Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Leo Terrell, who is now heading the Task Force.
And the Task Force has worked hard in its mission to root out the noxious, evil ideology from U.S. college campuses. Columbia was a target for funding cuts in response to its failures to fight antisemitism because in school was, “in my opinion, the worst of the worst when it comes to allowing this type of conduct to take place and to continue,” Terrell told Fox News Digital.
“President Trump has made it a commitment to the Jewish Americans, and to all Americans, we’re going to eliminate antisemitism,” Terrell told Fox News host Mark Levin earlier this month. “It’s rampant, Mark. It is horrendous. Under President Trump’s leadership, and [Attorney General] Pam Bondi’s leadership, we are working on this 24/7. We have marching orders to eradicate this.”
“The Biden/Garland administration did absolutely nothing. They did nothing to address antisemitism, and it’s rampant across the country,” Terrell continued. “So what are we doing? We are working on this, the entire federal government…we are suing every one of these universities guilty of antisemitism under Title VI…we’re going to bankrupt these universities.”
The Task Force also filed an investigation on Title VII, which involves the employer-employee relationship, due to employees in the University of California system being harassed because of antisemitism.
It’s truly a wonderful feeling that we can walk around with our kippot, be visibly Jewish, and support Israel openly and know that we have a true friend in the White House in President Trump who has our backs. And we should use this realization as a turning point to make sure the Jewish world makes a true JEXIT once and for all from the Democrat Party.
Jeremy Frankel is a Jewish American freelance writer who has worked with many media publications. Follow him on X, Truth Social, GETTR, and CenterClip.
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