Trump Administration to <br />Interpret Judaism as Nationality.<br />President Donald Trump will sign an <br />executive order Wednesday recognizing <br />Judaism as a nationality and not just a religion.<br />The White House believes the move <br />will help combat what they perceive <br />as anti-Semitism on college campuses.<br />Educational institutions receiving federal funding <br />would now be punished for discrimination and <br />violations based on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<br />While some are in support of the decision, others <br />feel it was designed to have a "chilling effect on free <br />speech and to crack down on campus critics of Israel." .<br />We feel it is misguided and harmful for the White House to unilaterally declare a broad range of nonviolent campus criticism of Israel to be anti-Semitic, especially at a time when the prime driver of anti-Semitism in this country is the xenophobic, white nationalist far-right. , J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami, via statement.<br />According to 'The New York Times,' Jared Kushner, <br />Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House <br />adviser, pushed for the executive order
