The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it is sending a federal task force to Boston and three other major U.S. cities “to discuss their responses to incidents of antisemitism at schools and on college campuses in their cities over the last two years.

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

President Donald Trump created a task force Friday to prepare for the 2026 World Cup, which will bring the globe’s premier soccer tournament to North America at a time when Trump’s on-again-off-again tariffs have ratcheted up tensions across the continent.