Additional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism
Signed: January 29, 2025
Published: February 3, 2025
Document Number: 2025-02230
šSummary
This executive order reaffirms an earlier order (Executive Order 13899) and directs the federal government to step up efforts to combat antiāSemitic harassment and violence, with a strong focus on schools and college campuses after October 7, 2023. It affects federal agencies (especially the Justice Department, Education Department, State Department, and Homeland Security), as well as Kā12 schools and colleges/universities that may be subject to civil-rights complaints or investigations. Within 60 days, each agency must report what additional civil and criminal tools it can use to address antiāSemitism and provide an inventory and analysis of pending complaints involving higher education; the Attorney General and Secretary of Education must also provide detailed inventories of related court cases and Title VI complaints (including in Kā12). It also calls for recommendations to help colleges understand and report certain conduct by nonāU.S. students or staff that could trigger immigration inadmissibility rules, so that reports can lead to investigations and, where warranted, removal actions under existing law.
š¼Business Impact
This order most directly affects **higher education and Kā12 operators**, plus **vendors/contractors** that work on campuses (security, housing, food service, student platforms) because it signals **more aggressive Title VI and DOJ civil-rights enforcement** tied to postāOct. 7 incidents and complaints. Expect tighter compliance expectations around **anti-harassment policies, incident reporting, investigations, access to facilities (libraries/classrooms), and documentation**āand opportunities for **training, security, and compliance services** as institutions increase spend to reduce legal and funding risk. Schools employing or enrolling nonāU.S. citizens should also prepare for heightened scrutiny around **immigration-related inadmissibility grounds** and may need clearer internal escalation paths for conduct that could trigger required reporting. Immediate actions: **audit your discrimination/harassment response process**, refresh staff training and vendor SLAs for incident handling, and **centralize records** (complaints, investigations, remedial steps) so you can respond quickly to OCR/DOJ inquiries or contract/funding due diligence.
Full Text
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. ( printed page 8848)
(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.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 29, 2025.