In the recommendations of the report, the USCCR called for the Office for Civil Rights to vigorously enforce Title VI against recipients that deny equal educational opportunities to all students.
These acts were controversial at their times of introduction in Congress, prompting the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to write a letter opposing the initial bill from 2018.
In the letter, the ACLU argued that the definition of antisemitism used in the bill extended to criticism of Israel and Zionism, thus limiting free speech.
[8] Some American Jews praised the order,[3] while others objected to defining Judaism as a nationality (as the order was initially indicated to do, though it ultimately did not), claiming that "Trump's reclassification of Judaism mirrored sentiments used by white nationalists and Nazi Germany" and that "the move appears to question whether Jews are really American".
Some decried the order as a political stunt, and called on Trump to more directly address the threat of white nationalism.