President Trump’s Department of Justice is taking the fight against antisemitism on the road.
The DOJ’s Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced a 15-city National Awareness & Action Tour on Monday, designed to put federal pressure directly on local communities, school districts, and law enforcement agencies that have allowed antisemitism to fester.
Leo Terrell, chair of the task force, will personally lead the tour, meeting with Jewish communities, faith leaders, and local officials in cities across the country.
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The Justice Department laid out the tour’s goals in clear terms.
The tour is designed to increase reporting of antisemitic incidents by local officials, strengthen collaboration between local law enforcement, federal agencies, and Jewish communities, and build broader interfaith opposition to antisemitism among Jewish, Baptist Christian, Catholic, and Muslim communities.
The DOJ also said the tour will address antisemitism in K-12 schools and teacher unions to make sure students are protected from discrimination and harassment. Leo Terrell, chair of the DOJ Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, will lead the tour and meet with people and communities impacted by antisemitism while working to identify practical local solutions.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the national tour is meant to show communities that the federal government is ready to work with them to confront antisemitic threats, protect public safety, and uphold civil rights.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said President Trump has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate antisemitism.
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward put it in equally direct terms: Jewish Americans deserve to live, work, worship, and send their children to school without fear of harassment, intimidation, or violence.
The DOJ is framing this as a civil-rights enforcement priority, and the 15-city tour signals that Washington is done waiting for local officials to act on their own.
Jewish Insider added more detail on Terrell’s role and the local focus behind the push.
Terrell will oversee the creation of a DOJ Antisemitism Advisory Committee while embarking on the 15-city swing to engage Jewish communities, faith leaders, and law enforcement officials. The advisory body is expected to recommend coordinated and timely responses to antisemitism for the attorney general and other DOJ leaders.
Terrell told Jewish Insider he had submitted a list of nominees to President Trump after receiving approval from Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to launch both the advisory committee and the tour. The schedule was still being finalized, and Terrell said he was open to expanding beyond the initial 15 cities.
His focus is local. He pointed to failures in cities, school districts, prosecutors’ offices, school boards, and superintendent offices, arguing that communities need direct pressure and practical solutions instead of another report that disappears into Washington bureaucracy.
ADVERTISEMENTHe also told the outlet he wants Jewish Americans involved in local elections, because the officials closest to schools, prosecutors’ offices, and city halls are often the ones deciding whether antisemitic conduct is confronted or excused.
That local focus is the whole point.
Cities, school districts, local prosecutors, and school boards are all in the frame.
The DOJ is publicly naming the institutions that have dropped the ball. Anyone who has watched college campuses and K-12 schools tolerate open antisemitism over the past few years knows exactly which failures Terrell is talking about.
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The Trump administration has consistently treated antisemitism as a front-line civil-rights issue, and this tour is the latest escalation. Sending a federal task force chair into 15 cities to meet with affected communities and confront local officials face-to-face is the kind of action that forces accountability.
School boards, union leaders, and local prosecutors who have looked the other way are officially on notice.
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