Anti-Semitism order raises tough issue of defining prejudice President Donald Trump signed an order this week that expands the potential scope of anti-Semitism complaints on college campusesNEW YORK -- President Donald Trump’s order to expand the scope of potential anti-Semitism complaints on college campuses is raising the stakes of an already tense battle over how to define discrimination against Jews. For supporters of Trump’s order -- which is aligned with bipartisan legislation that had stalled -- the distinction is a clear matter of reining in those who would question Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. But the parallels they draw between Israel and the oppressive apartheid-era South African government have fueled charges of anti-Semitism. Among the prominent Jewish American groups who view the boycott movement as anti-Semitic is the Anti-Defamation League, which praised Trump’s order. The Education Department last year reopened an inquiry closed during the Obama administration into alleged anti-Semitism at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Source: ABC News December 13, 2019 16:24 UTC