On Thursday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly thanked President Trump for his executive order targeting anti-Semitism.
Trump’s executive order, issued Wednesday, implemented additional measures to add to his December 2019 executive order 13899 targeting anti-Semitism.
“Executive Order 13899 provided interpretive assistance on the enforcement of the Nation’s civil rights laws to ensure that they would protect American Jews to the same extent to which all other American citizens are protected,” the new executive order stated. “The prior administration effectively nullified Executive Order 13899 by failing to give the terms of the order full force and effect throughout the Government. This order reaffirms Executive Order 13899 and directs additional measures to advance the policy thereof in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023,…
