Trump derangement syndrome manifests in increasingly puzzling ways, and Tuesday’s announcement by the White House about an executive order to be signed on anti-Semitism is perhaps the most galling recent example. In response to the serious situation for American Jews on college campuses (this Commentary article is a good primer), Trump issued an executive order to clarify that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against anti-Semitism on college campuses, with the intention to extend the scope of the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin, to include anti-Semitism as well.
Lahav Harkov of the Jerusalem Post explained on Twitter, “Title VI allows the government to revoke funding from schools if they discriminate based on a few things. Nationality is one, religion isn’t. The Executive Order was meant to allow schools to be penalized for anti-Semitic activity on campus.”
