Trump admin task force moves rapidly to punish colleges for inaction over antisemitism

Leader of joint federal task force on antisemitism discusses criteria for examining whether schools are protecting their Jewish students, faculty amid rising hatred.

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Leo Terrell, leader of the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, told Fox News Digital that Columbia was an initial target for funding cuts because the school has been "in my opinion, the worst of the worst when it comes to allowing this type of conduct to take place and to continue."

Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union, told Fox News Digital that "the more dramatic action that the [Trump] administration seems ready to take … seems to be the necessary approach for something as urgent as what we have been facing." Hauer added that his community has "a lot of hope."