BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
For the reason that time the US was however a coalition of villages and settlements, America’s Jewish residents have performed an indispensable function in our nationwide story. They arrived as farmers, troopers, tailors, and retailers, settling shortly and contributing vastly to the fields of regulation, artwork, science, and medication. At essential moments, Jewish People have joined their fellow residents in working in direction of America’s distinctive imaginative and prescient of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The New World allowed these Jewish individuals emigrating from Europe to freely apply their religion with out persecution, for the American experiment supplied one thing providential — an escape from each indignity, each abuse, and each tragedy visited upon the Jewish individuals over their lengthy historical past.
In my proclamation declaring Jewish American Heritage Month in 2019, I drew from the phrases President George Washington drafted and despatched to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, on August 18, 1790, addressing the Jewish residents of our new Republic. President Washington’s letter contained a blessing, that “the Youngsters of the Inventory of Abraham, who dwell on this land, proceed to advantage and benefit from the good will of the opposite Inhabitants; whereas everybody shall sit in security beneath his personal vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.”
Throughout my first 4 years as President, within the a number of proclamations I issued for Jewish American Heritage Month, I typically had the unlucky job of contrasting President Washington’s timeless blessing with no matter violent acts of anti-Semitism had occurred within the earlier yr. Every time, it was an all too painful reminder of the fragility of President Washington’s phrases.
Then, October 7, 2023, occurred, shattering the peace, not solely overseas but additionally at dwelling. Since these horrific assaults, the Jewish group in the US — and all over the world — has confronted an unbelievable trial, although one which was not unfamiliar in Jewish historical past. School campuses and metropolis streets erupted into violence. Blood libels have been displayed proudly at protests. These sporting yarmulkes have been brazenly assaulted within the streets. The America that its Jewish residents felt that they as soon as knew appeared to have shifted utterly.
In his letter, President Washington championed a unique imaginative and prescient: “For fortunately the Authorities of the US, which provides to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no help requires solely that they who stay beneath its safety ought to demean themselves pretty much as good residents.”
For the reason that day I resumed my duties as President — and following President Washington’s instance — my Administration has been decided to confront anti-Semitism in all its manifestations. I say that at dwelling and overseas, on school campuses and in metropolis streets, this harmful return of anti-Semitism — at occasions disguised as anti-Zionism, Holocaust denialism, and false equivalencies of each variety — should discover no quarter.
We proudly have fun the historical past and tradition of the Jewish individuals in America, and we maintain that President Washington’s phrases, although almost 250 years previous, nonetheless carry the revolutionary promise of our Republic: that each citizen who demeans himself as citizen shall sit in security beneath his personal vine and fig tree — a covenant added to a blessing.
I imagine there has by no means been a higher pal to the Jewish individuals than my Administration. We’ll by no means deviate from our conviction that anti-Semitism has no place within the best nation on this planet. Because the forty seventh President of the US, I’ll use each acceptable authorized device at my disposal to cease anti-Semitic assaults gripping our universities. We’ll proudly stand with our pal and ally, the State of Israel. I’ll by no means waver in my dedication.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the US of America, by advantage of the authority vested in me by the Structure and the legal guidelines of the US, do hereby proclaim Might 2025 as Jewish American Heritage Month. I name upon People to have fun the heritage and contributions of American Jews and to look at this month with acceptable applications, actions, and ceremonies.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I’ve hereunto set my hand this
sixteenth day of Might, within the yr of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 2 hundred and forty-ninth.
DONALD J. TRUMP
