#the forward

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Quelle surprise

Queer Jews Project

If the president were serious about fighting antisemitism, he would have to break up with his antisemitic friends and fans, including Holocaust deniers like Nicholas Fuentes, Great Replacement conspiracy theorists like Tucker Carlson, and self-described Western Chauvinists like the Proud Boys. This is something he has shown no intention of doing. Instead, he has opted for an act of political theater. But given that his executive order, and the task force newly empowered to enforce it, have the force of law behind them, we can expect them to have pernicious real-world consequences, particularly for international students and workers with precarious legal statuses. We can expect to see instances of racial, religious and political profiling become increasingly commonplace, as the administration puts pressure on universities to identify non-citizen students involved in protests against Israel. Students and staff will be incentivized to report each other to administrators, and administrators pressured to report students and staff to the authorities. We can also expect to witness the repression of pro-Palestinian speech, the censorship of related topics in the classroom, and ever more violent crackdowns on campus protest — all with the administration’s official blessing. It is seriously unlikely that any of these measures will make Jewish students or staff any safer — on or off campus — aimed as they are at suppressing speech rather than combating hatred. If anything, they promise to undermine the intercommunal solidarity on which Jewish safety ultimately depends, creating the impression that prioritizing Jewish interests means adhering to a right-wing agenda with which a majority of Jews disagree. There is no future in which that agenda leads to happy results — for any of us.