Trump’s DOJ targets universities and foreign nationals in antisemitism crackdown

The Trump administration has followed a more aggressive approach than its predecessor towards addressing the national boom in anti -Semitic incidents, launching investigations, punishing elite universities, and intensifying immigration enforcement practices.

President Donald Trump, through the Ministry of Justice (Doj) and other agencies, uses the tactics of the law and the system that its deputies say are necessary, but critics say it can be a transgression.

Harmet Delon, Assistant Prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice of the Civil Rights Department, told Fox News Digital that she had not seen any “close issues” when it comes to the weight of anti -Semitism against the rights of the first amendment of those who oppose Israel or Judaism.

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“Criticism of the government of Israel is not what I usually see here,” said Delon. “I see the uprising revolution. I see from preventing Jewish students from crossing universities and destroying property on the campus, which is a crime … a quiet, polite conversation and disagreement with Israeli policy, it is not really what is happening here. It is literally people says that Israel should not exist – and bring the revolution to the United States.”

“This type of violent speech has led to violent actions in our country,” Delon added.

Obsessive violence

After Hamas’s deadly terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, statistics of hate crime at the FBI showed a sharp rise in anti -Jewish incidents in the United States, the data will continue until December 2023.

Data of the Anti -Defamation Association (ADL) of 2024 and high -level accidents this year indicates that the trend is continuing.

An Egyptian citizen in the United States illegally faces in Bulder, Colorado, government and federal accusations of allegedly injuring 15 people, including the elderly and dogs at the end of last week with Molotov Cocktail during a peaceful demonstration in support of Israel to support hostages carried by Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

“He wanted to kill all Zionism and hoped that they would all died,” the suspect, Muhammad Sabri Suleiman, told the authorities, according to the FBI certificate. The agent said during the attack, which was allegedly cried, “Palestine is free.”

In May, Yaron Lesinski and Sarah Milgerim, who worked at the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, were shot outside the Jewish Museum in the capital

The suspect, Elias Rodriguez of Illinois, shouted “Palestine free” as he was detained, and the US temporary lawyer for DC Janein Peru that her office is investigating the case as a hatred and terrorist crime.

Muhammad Sabri Suleiman, the left, and Elias Rodriguez committed crimes, including killing, and shouting, “Free Palestine” after that. (Alex Osante / Instagram /@Shinewithisrael)

The suspect accused of killing the Israeli embassy staff may face the death penalty

In another incident, it was claimed that a man set fire to the residence of the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, on the first night of Easter. Records of emergency calls issued by the local authorities revealed that the suspect, Kodi Palmer, brought Palestine after the intentional burning and blamed Shapiru, a Jew, for “killing my friends.”

Tarek Bazrouk, who knew himself as a “Jewish hate” and said that the Jewish people “have no value”, claimed that he had made a series of attacks on the Jewish population of New York in 2024 and 2025, according to an accusation against him in May.

Bazrok wore a green headline that simulated Hamas and Keffiyeh during the attacks, and celebrated Hamas and Hizballah on social media, according to the federal authorities.

Harvard and Colombia

Trump warned in an executive order at the beginning of his presidency that foreign citizens who participate in the “pro -jihadist protests” were deported, and the campus of universities was specifically highlighted as “with radicalism.”

Unlike the Biden Administration, the Trump administration has since become the war with elite universities, some of which were caught through the pro -Palestinian protests that involve the occupation of academic buildings and the installation of camps.

The Trump administration has taken elite universities such as Harvard.

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Harvard and Colombia, in particular, are now participating in litigation after Trump moved to freeze billions of dollars from federal funding to universities and banning Harvard students.

The besieged schools have succeeded in winning a temporary thinking of Trump’s sanctions through the courts, but the litigation was suspended and legal experts said they are facing an arduous battle.

Freedom of expression differences

The Trump administration has focused on students and activists who are not citizens who were accused of supporting the Palestinian causes in ways that they consider anti -American interests.

Amid Trump’s pursuit of visa holders and green cards, the case of Mahmoud Khalil has become a flash point.

Khalil was arrested in March and detained after the administration accused him of violating immigration laws by engaging in the anti -Israel activity.

This week, Khalil said in the court papers that the administration’s allegations against him were “horrific” and that his activity involves “protesting this indiscriminate killing of the Israeli government of thousands of innocent Palestinians.”

The Acting President of Colombia University, Claire Chipman, is cut off by students during graduation, who chanted, “Mahmoud Al -Hur”, calling for Mahmoud Khalil to the right, for his release. (Columbia University / Cellacock Akar / Anadolu via Getty Images)

Civil rights groups have warned that the militant government’s position risked violating freedom of expression and protest rights. An alliance of 60 groups issued a joint statement this week on anti -Semitic hate crimes that warned of the Trump administration against excessive correction because it “will make us less safe.”

“We condemn this heinous [antisemitic] The actions and those who commit hatred and violence are also not exploited, to ensure that these events – and the legal fear in Jewish society – are not exploited to justify the policies of inhuman immigration or target Arab Americans and those who exercise their first rights to plurality, “.

I told Dhillon Fox News Digital: “It is not a responsibility to balance the issues of freedom of expression on the campus. It is the responsibility of federal civil rights laws, and opinion, there is no conflict,” I told Dhillon Fox News Digital.

Work hostile to Semitism and more

When he took office, Trump pledged in a series of executive orders of the Prosecutor Pam Bondi directly to “strongly terrorist threats, deliberate burning, sabotage and violence against American Jews.”

Then Trump moved in the Ministry of Justice quickly to renew the anti -Semitic work squad. Delon said that there is also repeated communication between the White House, the Ministry of Justice, and the Jewish leaders about addressing anti -Semitism.

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Harram Delon, the assistant prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice in the Civil Rights Department, Harram Delon, says she focuses on launching the department’s work towards combating anti -Semitism. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

She said: “We have heard of the Jewish community, and we may have met – I think there are no less than twenty rabbis who have my digital demand now. I literally sent three email messages to the rabbis in the last hour.”

She said that her division had opened many investigations that involve land use for religious purposes under a law known as the Law on Using Religious Land and the Law of Institutional Persons (RLUPA), including five Judaism. The administration also notifying the Jewish societies of grants available for more security in the temples, and said that universities are a “great axis” for them.

Internal disorders

After reports appeared that Dhillon’s defeat in the Civil Rights Department led to a mass migration of more than 100 lawyers leaving the department, the media told that it was not upset with the departures and that its focus was still on launching the department’s work towards fighting anti -Semitism.

The boundaries of his subordinates and the courts, another senior official of the Ministry of Justice, Emile Bouv, launched an internal investigation into the demonstrators of Colombia students early this year. The investigation of anxiety between the lawyers of the two lines, who felt that he was weak and also caused multiple reprimanding from a judge, according to the New York Times.

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“The story of the New York Times was wrong and was fed to the newspaper” by a group of people who allowed supreme hostility and support terrorists from Hamas for years, “Deputy Prosecutor Todd Blanche said in a statement issued in May.

Planch confirmed the authenticity of the investigation and said that, in part, an investigation into a form related to Colombia University on the University of Colombia’s social media.