Combatting antisemitism (Updated)

This is the Trump Administration's latest undefined-and-meaningless catch phrase. It appears in the surrender agreements from Columbia, Paul Weiss, and Skadden. Marco Rubio has cited it as a central feature of American foreign policy and thus a reason to deport non-citizens who engage in certain protest activities.

But what does it mean and what does it allow?

Antisemitism has existed for one day less than Jews have existed, in many evolving forms and severity. So I do not know how Donald Trump and his minions (no pun intended) are going to eliminate it now--people are going to believe what they believe and say what they will say. And if we cannot eliminate it, I worry that Donald Trump and his minions will do what they are doing--controlling what people say and believe by arresting and deporting those who engage in wrong-think, stripping money or otherwise threatening universities who do not align campus speech (faculty and student) with the Administration's views, and coercing law firms into pursuing litigation (whatever that may look like) against those who hold or express those wrong views. That is before we get to the impossibility of defining antisemitism and controversy over the HIAS IHRA definition and the likelihood that many will consider Rumeysa Ozturk's op-ed or an academic talk about the Gaza death-toll "antisemitic." And before we get to how heads would explode if a Democratic administration declared that "combatting racism" represented U.S. policy and compelled universities to do to (purportedly) racist speakers what the current Administration is doing or threatening as to (purportedly) antisemitic speakers.

Update: As if on queue, Harvard, with the same code for "do more to restrict speech the Administration does not like," although addessed as "addressing" (rather than combatting). Yes, antisemitism "is present on our campus," as it is everywhere in the world. Also present on campus is racism, misogyny, anti-trans bigotry, anti-Nazi hatred, and a whole range of ideas that different people may like or dislike. What do these schools believe they can do without undermining any commitment to free thought, free speech, and academic freedom? Because Donald Trump does not care about those--he just wants "those people" off campus. So nothing short of that will appease him. Or too many Jewish organizations.