The U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism will be visiting 10 universities that have experienced antisemitic incidents since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack in Gaza.

Leo Terrell, senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss how the Trump administration has taken action to protect Jewish students amid the fight against antisemitism.

President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism will visit NYU as part of its investigation into 10 U.S. universities with reported incidents of antisemitism, the Department of Justice announced Friday.

The DoJ announced that a federal "task force to combat antisemitism" would visit 10 U.S. college campuses as part of investigations into allegations of antisemitic incidents, including three California institutions.

The task force, led by member and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Leo Terrell, plans to follow on President Trump’s executive order to combat anti-semitism.

The Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced it will visit 10 university campuses that have experienced “anti-Semitic incidents since Oct. 2023.”

The reports on antisemitic incidences that encouraged the task force's visits were all made after Hamas's attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

In a major escalation of the attack on the rights of pro-Palestinian and anti-genocide protesters, the Department of Justice announced the task force created by President Trump to “combat antisemitism” would be investigating 10 universities for violating the law.

The U, which said it “continues to stand firmly against antisemitism,” is among schools facing probe tied to pro-Palestinian protests.

The United States Department of Justice’s task force on antisemitism will visit Harvard and nine other colleges and universities to investigate antisemitism allegations, the department announced Friday.