Trump admin cracks down antisemitism as DOJ official exposes 'violent rhetoric' of radical protesters

The Trump medication has taken a much assertive attack than its predecessor toward addressing the nationwide surge successful antisemitic incidents, launching investigations, punishing elite universities, and intensifying its migration enforcement practices.

President Donald Trump, done his Department of Justice (DOJ) and different agencies, is utilizing law-and-order tactics that his deputies accidental are necessary, but that critics accidental could represent overreach.

Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ's adjunct lawyer wide for the Civil Rights Division, told Fox News Digital she has not seen immoderate "close cases" erstwhile it comes to weighing antisemitic behaviour against First Amendment rights of those who reason Israel oregon Judaism.

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"Criticizing the authorities of Israel is not what I'm typically seeing here," Dhillon said. "I'm seeing an intifada revolution. I'm seeing blocking Jewish students from crossing campuses and destroying spot connected campus, which is simply a crime. … Quiet, polite speech and disagreement with Israeli argumentation is not truly what's happening here. It's virtually radical saying Israel shouldn't beryllium — and bringing the gyration to the United States." 

Dhillon added that "that benignant of convulsive rhetoric has led to convulsive acts successful our country."

Antisemitic violence

After Hamas’s deadly violent onslaught connected Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, the FBI’s hatred transgression statistics showed a crisp spike successful anti-Jewish incidents successful the U.S. The information runs done December 2023.

Anti-Defamation League (ADL) data from 2024 and high-profile incidents this twelvemonth suggest the inclination is continuing.

Police respond to a firebombing successful Boulder, Colo., past week, wherever a fishy identified arsenic Mohamed Sabry Soliman, right, was arrested and charged by authorities and national authorities. (Storyful/KDVR)

An Egyptian nationalist successful the U.S. illegally successful Boulder, Colorado, is facing authorities and national charges for allegedly injuring 15 people, including aged victims and a canine past play with Molotov cocktails during a peaceful pro-Israel objection successful enactment of hostages being held by Hamas terrorists successful Gaza.

Suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, stated to authorities "he wanted to termination each Zionist radical and wished they were each dead," according to an FBI affidavit. During the onslaught helium allegedly yelled "free Palestine," the cause said.

In May, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who worked astatine the Israeli Embassy successful Washington, D.C., were gunned down extracurricular the Capitol Jewish Museum successful D.C. 

Suspect Elias Rodriguez of Illinois shouted "free Palestine" arsenic helium was detained, and Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said her bureau is investigating the lawsuit arsenic a hatred transgression and enactment of terrorism.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, left, and Elias Rodriguez allegedly committed crimes, including murder, and shouted, "Free Palestine" afterward. (Alex Osante / Instagram/@shinewithIsrael)

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In different incident, a antheral allegedly acceptable occurrence to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence connected the archetypal nighttime of Passover. Emergency telephone logs released by section authorities revealed that the suspect, Cody Balmer, invoked Palestine aft the arson and blamed Shapiro, who is Jewish, for "having my friends killed." 

Tarek Bazrouk, who identified himself arsenic a "Jew hater" and said Jewish radical were "worthless," allegedly carried retired a bid of assaults connected Jewish New Yorkers successful 2024 and 2025, according to an indictment brought against him successful May. 

Bazrouk wore a greenish headband that mimicked Hamas garb and a keffiyeh during the attacks, and helium celebrated Hamas and Hizballah connected his societal media, according to national authorities.

Harvard and Columbia

Trump warned successful an enforcement bid astatine the commencement of his presidency that overseas nationals participating successful "pro-jihadist protests" would beryllium deported, and helium specifically highlighted assemblage campuses arsenic being "infested with radicalism."

Unlike the Biden administration, the Trump medication has since gone to warfare with elite universities, immoderate of which person been roiled by disruptive pro-Palestinian protests that impact occupying world buildings and installing encampments.

The Trump medication has taken connected elite universities specified arsenic Harvard.

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Harvard and Columbia, successful particular, are present engaged successful litigation aft Trump moved to frost billions of dollars successful national backing for the universities and prohibition Harvard's overseas students.

The embattled schools person been palmy successful winning impermanent pauses to Trump’s sanctions done the courts, but litigation is pending and ineligible experts person said they look an uphill battle.

Free code controversies

The Trump medication has zeroed successful connected non-citizen students and activists who it has accused of supporting Palestinian causes successful ways it deems hostile to U.S. interests.

Amid Trump’s pursuit of visa and greenish paper holders, Mahmoud Khalil’s lawsuit has go a flashpoint.

Khalil was arrested successful March and detained aft the medication accused him of violating migration laws by engaging successful anti-Israel activism. 

This week, Khalil said successful tribunal papers the administration’s claims against him were "grotesque" and that his activism progressive "protesting this Israeli government’s indiscriminate sidesplitting of thousands of guiltless Palestinians."

Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman was interrupted by students during graduation, who chanted, "Free Mahmoud," calling for Mahmoud Khalil, right, to beryllium freed. (Columbia University / Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Civil rights groups person warned that the government’s hardliner posture risks violating escaped code and protestation rights. A conjugation of 60 groups issued a joint statement this week connected antisemitic hatred crimes successful which it warned the Trump medication not to over-correct due to the fact that it would "make america each little safe."

"As we condemn these heinous [antisemitic] acts and those who perpetrate hatred and violence, we besides recommit to ensuring that these events — and the morganatic fearfulness successful the Jewish assemblage — are not exploited to warrant inhumane migration policies oregon to people Arab Americans and those who peacefully and nonviolently workout their First Amendment rights successful enactment of Palestinian quality rights," the groups said.

Dhillon told Fox News Digital: "It's not my work to equilibrium escaped code issues connected campus. It's my work to enforce the national civilian rights laws. And my opinion, there's truly nary conflict."

Antisemitic task unit and more

When helium took office, Trump vowed successful a drawstring of enforcement orders to nonstop Attorney General Pam Bondi to "aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and unit against American Jews." 

Trump appointees astatine the DOJ past moved rapidly to convene an antisemitism task force. Dhillon said determination is besides predominant connection betwixt the White House, the DOJ, and Jewish leaders astir addressing antisemitism.

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DOJ Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon says she's focused connected launching the division's enactment toward combating antisemitism. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"We person heard from the Jewish community, and I've astir apt met with — I deliberation there's astatine slightest 2 twelve rabbis who person my fig connected velocity dial now. I virtually sent 3 emails to rabbis successful the past hour," she said.

She said her part has opened respective investigations involving onshore usage for spiritual purposes nether a instrumentality known arsenic the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), including 5 related to Judaism. The medication is besides notifying Jewish communities of grants disposable for added information astatine synagogues, and she said campuses are a "significant focus" for her.

Internal turmoil

After reports surfaced that Dhillon's shakeup successful the Civil Rights Division led to a wide exodus of much than 100 attorneys leaving the division, she told the media she was unfazed by the departures and that her absorption remains connected launching the division's enactment toward combating antisemitism.

Testing the limits of his subordinates and the courts, different apical DOJ official, Emil Bove, launched an interior probe into Columbia pupil protesters aboriginal this year. The probe caused interest among enactment attorneys, who felt it was flimsy and was besides met with aggregate reprimands from a magistrate judge, according to the New York Times.

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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said successful a connection successful May that the New York Times' communicative was mendacious and fed to the paper "by a radical of radical who allowed antisemitism and enactment of Hamas terrorists to fester for years."

Blanche confirmed the veracity of the probe and said it involved, successful part, a probe into a Hamas-linked representation connected Columbia University Apartheid Divest’s societal media.