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President Trump has signed a new executive order to fight anti-Semitism. The key to its provenance and purpose is a series of events on Nov. 9, 2023, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

That morning, a group called Coalition Against Apartheid organized and led a protest in one of the school’s main entry lobbies. This is against the rules, because high-foot-traffic areas are to be kept clear, for obvious safety reasons. Jewish and Israeli students showed up to form a counterprotest. MIT President Sally Kornbluth said officials “had serious concerns that it could lead to violence.”

All protesters were told to leave the area or be suspended. Several refused to budge. When it came time to doling out the punishments, however, Kornbluth had second thoughts: “Because we later heard serious concerns about collateral consequences for the students, such as visa issues, we have decided, as an interim action, that the students who remained after the deadline will be suspended from non-academic campus activities. The students will remain enrolled at MIT and will be able to attend academic classes and labs.”

There were two important acknowledgements in this statement. The first was that a not-insignificant portion of protest activists on campus were from outside the United States. The second was that foreign-born students were explicitly being given preferential treatment that American kids wouldn’t have been offered. The school did not dispute the fact that these students broke the rules; the administration simply decided that because they might be deported, they’d be spared that punishment.

That context made one part of Trump’s new executive order almost inevitable:

“In addition to identifying relevant authorities to curb or combat anti-Semitism generally required by this section, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Education, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with each other, shall include in their reports recommendations for familiarizing institutions of higher education with the grounds for inadmissibility under 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3) so that such institutions may monitor for and report activities by alien students and staff relevant to those grounds and for ensuring that such reports about aliens lead, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to investigations and, if warranted, actions to remove such aliens.”

That law says that those in terrorist groups or organizations that “espouse” terrorism are inadmissible, and so too is anyone who “endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization.”

It’s a call, essentially, to remind universities of existing law and nudge them to comply with it. The MIT protest is a case in point: Administrators didn’t apply the rules equally because they didn’t like what the law said might happen to perpetrators. This created a special class of student: one who supports terrorism against Jews was going to have unique immunity. It’s just one way these campuses have created environments that openly incentivize anti-Jewish harassment.

Unequal treatment under the law has been at the center of this entire controversy. Jewish students’ civil rights under Title VI have been violated at will on campuses that accept federal funds or are themselves public institutions.

Speaking of Title VI, the executive order begins by referencing an order Trump signed in 2019, the purpose of which was to ensure those civil-rights protections were applied to Jewish students on campus. That’s why there isn’t all that much that’s new about the recent order: The administration is trying to foreclose avenues of noncompliance that schools have been using, with the blessing of the previous administration, to violate Jewish rights.

Institutions seemingly don’t know how to protect Jews’ civil rights, so Trump is spelling it out for them. Elsewhere in the new order, the president suggests the attorney general should make use of a statute known as the “conspiracy against rights” prohibition. This post-Civil War law was designed to address white supremacist groups preventing black Americans from exercising their political rights. (Trump himself was charged under the statute in one of his Jan. 6-related cases.)

In fact, the masked “globalize the intifada” mobs are quite natural heirs to the Ku Klux Klan, and laws enacted to curb their power are a logical source of ideas for those who actually want to crack down on the post-Oct. 7 goon squads using violence or intimidation to negate the constitutional rights of Jewish students.

The Trump administration is making it very simple for those who want to fight anti-Semitism within existing law. We’re about to find out which institutions oppose the very idea of equal enforcement of the law.

##INTRODUCTION

/r/tuesday is a political discussion sub for the right side of the political spectrum - from the center to the traditional/standard right (but not alt-right!) However, we're going for a big tent approach and welcome anyone with nuanced and non-standard views. We encourage dissents and discourse as long as it is accompanied with facts and evidence and is done in good faith and in a polite and respectful manner.

##PURPOSE OF THE DISCUSSION THREAD

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##INTRODUCTION

/r/tuesday is a political discussion sub for the right side of the political spectrum - from the center to the traditional/standard right (but not alt-right!) However, we're going for a big tent approach and welcome anyone with nuanced and non-standard views. We encourage dissents and discourse as long as it is accompanied with facts and evidence and is done in good faith and in a polite and respectful manner.

##PURPOSE OF THE DISCUSSION THREAD

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##INTRODUCTION

/r/tuesday is a political discussion sub for the right side of the political spectrum - from the center to the traditional/standard right (but not alt-right!) However, we're going for a big tent approach and welcome anyone with nuanced and non-standard views. We encourage dissents and discourse as long as it is accompanied with facts and evidence and is done in good faith and in a polite and respectful manner.

##PURPOSE OF THE DISCUSSION THREAD

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Hi everyone, I want to talk about the future of the book club before we try starting anything for this year.

I need to know the interest in continuing the book club. Last year for about half the year or so it was only me participating, and I wasn't doing very well at that since I was under a pretty heavy load with other things going on at the same time. This meant I was behind more often than not from July onward.

I don't like it being the coldnorthwz show, and its not as fun as when there is other participation. If it does continue, I think we will need to reduce the pace/number of books overall since I don't foresee myself having a lighter load than last fall (second semester of Grad school, still have quite a few other projects going on irl). We could also look at changing the format, maybe book club threads are bi-weekly or once a month and cover a different amount of material.

I need to know if there will be other participation or not. We do have a list of books, but not a definitive schedule, so if we don't continue the book club I will release the list of books at the least.

Last post from the last years book club is here: Final Book Club Post of the Year : r/tuesday

Thanks!

##INTRODUCTION

/r/tuesday is a political discussion sub for the right side of the political spectrum - from the center to the traditional/standard right (but not alt-right!) However, we're going for a big tent approach and welcome anyone with nuanced and non-standard views. We encourage dissents and discourse as long as it is accompanied with facts and evidence and is done in good faith and in a polite and respectful manner.

##PURPOSE OF THE DISCUSSION THREAD

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##INTRODUCTION

/r/tuesday is a political discussion sub for the right side of the political spectrum - from the center to the traditional/standard right (but not alt-right!) However, we're going for a big tent approach and welcome anyone with nuanced and non-standard views. We encourage dissents and discourse as long as it is accompanied with facts and evidence and is done in good faith and in a polite and respectful manner.

##PURPOSE OF THE DISCUSSION THREAD

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