(Free Beacon) The Trump administration is forming a multi-agency task force “to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,” the Department of Justice announced Monday.
The task force stems from an executive order President Donald Trump signed last week intended to take “forceful and unprecedented steps to combat anti-Semitism.” It requires federal agencies and department leaders to report the legal tools they could use to fight anti-Semitism.
Leo Terrell, the senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, will lead the task force. It will be coordinated through the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and will include representatives from the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services, along with other agencies as the task force develops.
