Jason Lee, a senior adviser to Mayor Brandon Johnson, was not surprised at the DOJ initiative. He noted the new Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism is targeting three of the same cities whose mayors were summoned to Washington to defend their sanctuary city status before a

The newly formed federal taskforce aims to meet with mayors in a handful of major cities to investigate alleged antisemitism in schools.

The Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism notified leaders of four major cities on Thursday that it wanted to meet to discuss their responses to incidents of antisemitism at schools and on college campuses since 2023.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was told the federal task force is looking into allegations that local schools may have failed to protect Jewish students from unlawful discrimination.