As incomprehensible as it may seem, to this day, by 2020, Jews have not been protected from discrimination in American educational institutions. In fact, the group that historically suffered persecution, systemic quotas and systematic discrimination remained exposed to these dangers, with almost all other groups in the population being legally protected from them. The reason is that in US law, the protected groups are races and nationalities, while Judaism - though Jews defined themselves as a nation from the exodus from Egypt - was considered a religion. And religion is not a protected category under the law.

A few days ago, President Trump decided to put an end to the absurdity, and signed a presidential order that makes enforcement of anti-Semitism cases in educational institutions easier. The President has decided that the US Department of Education should adopt the definition of the International Alliance for Holocaust Remembrance, recently adopted by the French parliament, which defines Israel's right to exist as anti-Semitic.

The counter-attack was not late. The American left has argued that Trump defines Judaism as a nation so that he can discriminate against Jews, and in the future may even deport them. Some American Jews have emphasized that Judaism is merely a religion. Both groups are wrong, one in facts and one in facts and in essence. The American left is simply wrong because its claim is false. The presidential decree did not define Judaism as a nation, but defined anti-Semitism in a way that would be in line with American law, and would make it easier to punish anti-Semitic institutions and personalities. This is nothing but a spin designed to resist, as usual, any move by President Trump. I doubt that the president, who, despite the political crisis in Israel, finds ways to better her, sits thinking about how to harm the Jews in his country.

American Jews who oppose the decree are wrong in both facts and substance. The facts - that Trump did not define Judaism as a nation, and in essence - that whether they wanted it or not, Judaism was and always will be a nation. The glue that connects a Jew who returned from Ethiopia to that found in the Russian exile is not just religious customs, but a sense of belonging and common origins with a tiny people who lived in Zion thousands of years ago, was exiled, dreamed and managed to return.

This does not mean that American Jews are less citizens than other Americans, God forbid. But simply, just as an American of Ecuadorian origin belongs ethnically and nationally to his roots in the Ecuadorian nation, so does the Jew.

This lack of clarity has so far gone on the backs of Jewish students, like me, on American campuses. My friends and I had no way of defending themselves today from faculty members and student associations who are bullying us because of our origin. The presidential order gives us a way to defend ourselves. That's all there is to know about him.