The Justice Department's antisemitism task force chairman Leo Terrell, is taking the Trump administration’s fight against antisemitism directly into Jewish communities on a 15-city nationwide tour, and he says he means business. Terrell told Fox News Digital that local leaders have too often failed to respond while Jewish Americans face threats in their schools, workplaces and houses of worship. "The whole purpose of this tour is to go to where the problem is at, to address their needs, and to provide them with federal support," Terrell said.
"Antisemitism is now and we have to come up with solutions for the future." ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE REACHES DEADLIEST LEVEL SINCE 1994, NEW GLOBAL REPORT FINDS The American Tour Against Hate began Oct. 14 in Michigan, bringing representatives from the Justice Department, FBI and Labor Department together with Jewish residents, students, educators and religious leaders. The federal officials addressed antisemitism in workplaces and schools, as well as the enforcement of hate-crime laws. Terrell said the tour was created to reach communities that feel ignored or abandoned by local officials and to connect them directly with federal resources.
"We had the FBI at the first tour meeting because some of these cities have failed to prosecute hate crimes," Terrell said, naming Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, New York and Detroit. He did not identify specific unprosecuted cases. Terrell said every stop on the tour would include a public event followed by visits to synagogues, Jewish schools and community centers.
WOMAN BUSTED IN NYC RABBI SYRINGE ATTACK ALLEGEDLY STABBED ANOTHER JEWISH MAN HOURS EARLIER: REPORT "The tour is really two days," he said. "We have a two-hour tour event where the community is invited. You know what we do the next day?
I spend the next day, all day in the Jewish community." The tour comes as Jews remain disproportionately targeted in religiously motivated hate crimes. According to the latest FBI data, law enforcement agencies reported 1,528 single-bias anti-Jewish hate-crime incidents in 2025. The data also showed that 62.4% of victims of religious-bias hate crimes were targeted because of anti-Jewish bias.
Terrell characterized protecting Jewish students and religious communities as a "24-7 obligation," encompassing colleges, K-12 schools and synagogues. He also criticized the financial burden Jewish institutions face to protect students and worshipers, describing security expenses as a "Jewish tax." Universities remain a major focus of Terrell’s work. He warned university presidents that federal scrutiny would continue if Jewish students remained unprotected, saying potential violations would not disappear with a change in administration.
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