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Trump signed an executive order on combating anti-Semitism that the White House framed as a campus-hate crackdown, but critics immediately warned it could chill speech about Israel and BDS activism. The political problem for Trump was that he was selling a civil-rights measure while inviting accusations that he was weaponizing anti-discrimination rules against dissent.
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Trump signed an executive order on combating anti-Semitism that the White House framed as a campus-hate crackdown, but critics immediately warned it could chill speech about Israel and BDS activism. The political problem for Trump was that he was selling a civil-rights measure while inviting accusations that he was weaponizing anti-discrimination rules against dissent.
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Trump signed an executive order on combating anti-Semitism that the White House framed as a campus-hate crackdown, but critics immediately warned it could chill speech about Israel and BDS activism. The political problem for Trump was that he was selling a civil-rights measure while inviting accusations that he was weaponizing anti-discrimination rules against dissent.
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