Additional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism

Executive Order 14188 of January 29, 2025

Additional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. My Administration has fought and
will continue to fight anti-Semitism in the United
States and around the world. On December 11, 2019, I
issued Executive Order 13899, my first Executive Order
on Combating Anti-Semitism, finding that students, in
particular, faced anti-Semitic harassment in schools
and on university and college campuses. Executive Order
13899 provided interpretive assistance on the
enforcement of the Nation's civil rights laws to ensure
that they would protect American Jews to the same
extent to which all other American citizens are
protected. The prior administration effectively
nullified Executive Order 13899 by failing to give the
terms of the order full force and effect throughout the
Government. This order reaffirms Executive Order 13899
and directs additional measures to advance the policy
thereof in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks of
October 7, 2023, against the people of Israel. These
attacks unleashed an unprecedented wave of vile anti-
Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and violence against
our citizens, especially in our schools and on our
campuses. Jewish students have faced an unrelenting
barrage of discrimination; denial of access to campus
common areas and facilities, including libraries and
classrooms; and intimidation, harassment, and physical
threats and assault. A joint report by the House
Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and
Commerce, Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability,
Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means calls the Federal
Government's failure to fight anti-Semitism and protect
Jewish students “astounding.” This failure is
unacceptable and ends today.

Sec. 2. Policy. It shall be the policy of the United
States to combat anti-Semitism vigorously, using all
available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute,
remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators
of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence.

Sec. 3. Additional Measures to Combat Campus Anti-
Semitism. (a) Within 60 days of the date of this order,
the head of each executive department or agency
(agency) shall submit a report to the President,
through the Assistant to the President for Domestic
Policy, identifying all civil and criminal authorities
or actions within the jurisdiction of that agency,
beyond those already implemented under Executive Order
13899, that might be used to curb or combat anti-
Semitism, and containing an inventory and analysis of
all pending administrative complaints, as of the date
of the report, against or involving institutions of
higher education alleging civil-rights violations
related to or arising from post-October 7, 2023, campus
anti-Semitism.

    (b) The report submitted by the Attorney General
under this section shall additionally include an
inventory and an analysis of all court cases, as of the
date of the report, against or involving institutions
of higher education alleging civil-rights violations
related to or arising from post-October 7, 2023, campus
anti-Semitism and indicate whether the Attorney General
intends to or has taken any action with respect to such
matters, including filing statements of interest or
intervention.
    (c) The Attorney General is encouraged to employ
appropriate civil-rights enforcement authorities, such
as 18 U.S.C. 241, to combat anti-Semitism.

    (d) The report submitted by the Secretary of
Education under this section shall additionally include
an inventory and an analysis of all Title VI complaints
and administrative actions, including in K-12
education, related to anti-Semitism--pending or
resolved after October 7, 2023--within the Department's
Office for Civil Rights.
    (e) In addition to identifying relevant authorities
to curb or combat anti-Semitism generally required by
this section, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of
Education, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in
consultation with each other, shall include in their
reports recommendations for familiarizing institutions
of higher education with the grounds for
inadmissibility under 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3) so that such
institutions may monitor for and report activities by
alien students and staff relevant to those grounds and
for ensuring that such reports about aliens lead, as
appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to
investigations and, if warranted, actions to remove
such aliens.

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    January 29, 2025.