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Jews as a Nationality: This is NOT About the BDS Movement.
So we woke up to the news. Jews would be designated as a nationality in a new Executive Order. According to CNN, this is the objective of the order:
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to interpret Judaism as a nationality and not just a religion, a move that the Trump administration believes will fight what they perceive as anti-Semitism on college campuses, a White House official said.
It’s an order that would allow Trump to take further steps to combat anti-Israel sentiments and divestment movements on college campuses by requiring colleges and universities to treat those movements as discriminatory in order to keep their funding.
The expected order generated widespread reaction from Jews and Jewish groups, with some calling it a necessary measure against what they see as a rising tide of anti-Semitism on campuses and others calling it a chill on free speech
Incidentally, the man behind the idea of this order reportedly was Jared Kushner, which is even more chilling. He is Jewish after all, and at this point, this reminds me of a Kappo. And if you have no idea what that is, these were Jews in the camps that worked with the Germans. Partly it was a way to try to survive the Holocaust. They were all but popular with other prisoners…