Issuing a proclamation to commemorate Jewish American Heritage Month, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that “there has never been a greater friend to the Jewish people” than his administration.
Trump’s action followed the passage last week of a House resolution in support of the annual commemoration, which takes place each May.
The president noted the increase in Jew-hatred in the United States since the Hamas-led terror attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Since those horrific attacks, the Jewish community in the United States, and around the world, has faced an incredible trial, though one that was not unfamiliar in Jewish history,” Trump stated. “College campuses and city streets erupted into violence. Blood libels were displayed proudly at protests. Those wearing yarmulkes were openly assaulted in the streets.”
“The America that its Jewish citizens felt that they once knew appeared to have shifted completely,” he added.
The president promised to “use every appropriate legal tool at my disposal to stop antisemitic assaults gripping our universities.”
“We will proudly stand with our friend and ally, the State of Israel. I will never waver in my commitment,” he said, noting that Jew-hatred has been “disguised as anti-Zionism, Holocaust denialism and false equivalencies.”
“We will never deviate from our conviction that antisemitism has no place in the greatest country in the world,” he stated.
