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The Trump government opens up new investigations into anti -Semitism allegations at five US universities, including Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley, announced the educational department on Monday.

It is part of President Donald Trump's promise to take a harder attitude against campus anti -Semitism and to exclude tougher punishments than the biden administration, which has populated a flood of cases with universities in the past few weeks. It comes on the same day when the Ministry of Justice announced a new task force to eradicate anti -Semitism on College Campus.

In a command signed last week, Trump called for aggressive measures to combat anti-Jewish prejudices on campus, including the deportation of foreign students who took part in Pro-Palestinian protests.

In addition to Columbia and Berkeley, the department is now examining the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University and Portland State University. With the powers of the department, the cases were opened to start their own civil rights reviews, in contrast to most investigations that result from complaints.

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In a statement by the educational department, the universities for the toleration of anti -Semitism after the Hamas from October 7, 2023, attacked Israel and a wave of Propalestinian protests criticized. In addition, the bidges administration criticized for the negotiation of “toothless” decisions that the schools could not hold into account.

“Today, the departments, universities, universities and K-12 schools note: This administration will not tolerate the continued institutional indifference to the well-being of Jewish students at American locations,” said Craig Trainor, the acting deputy secretary of the agency for civil rights.

The department did not give any details about the inquiries or how it decided which schools are targeted. The presidents of Colombia and northwest belonged last year to testify on the Capitol Hill when the Republicans applied for the accountability for allegations of anti -Semitism. The hearings contributed to the resignation of several university presidents, including Columbia's Minouche Shafik.

A report in October in October in October, Columbia, Pro-Palestinian students who took over a campus building, did not punish, and described Northwestern's negotiations with student demonstrators as “breathtaking surrender”.

House Republicans applauded the new investigation. The representative Tim Walberg, chairman of the Committee on Education and the workforce, said that he was “glad that we finally have an administration that took the measures to protect Jewish students”.

Trump's command also calls for a complete review of the anti -Semitism complaints submitted to the educational department since October 7, 2023, including pending and dissolved cases of bidges. It encourages the Ministry of Justice to take measures to enforce civil rights laws.

The order of last week led to civil rights groups, which said that they violated the rights of first change that protect political speech.

The new Task Force announced on Monday and includes the judicial and educational departments as well as health and human services.

“The department assumes our responsibility seriously to eliminate this hatred wherever it is found,” said Leo Terrell, deputy attorney in general for civil rights. “The Task Force to combat anti -Semitism is the first step to give President Trump's new commitment to the end of anti -Semitism in our schools.”