I'm Virginia Allen. I'm Samantha Cheris. And this is the Daily Seidel Top News for Monday, October 30th. Here are today's headlines.

After a slew of anti-Semitic events on college campuses across the country, the Biden administration is rolling out a plan to combat anti-Semitism.

In an exclusive from NBC News, the Outlaw reports that the departments of Justice and Homeland Security are partnering with campus law enforcement to track hate-related rhetoric online.

The departments will also provide federal resources to schools. According to White House officials, dozens of cybersecurity and protective security experts at the Department of Homeland Security have been tasked with engaging schools as part of the mission to monitor threats.

NBC News reports that second gentleman Doug M. Hoff and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will meet with leading Jewish organizations to discuss the issue of growing anti-Semitism at colleges today, the official said.

Anti-Semitic protests have taken place and statements have been made by students at George Washington University, Harvard University, Cooper Union, and the University of Virginia, just to name a few.

At Middle School in California, recently asked four Jewish students and their parents to sign a gag order. The students were asked to not speak to any other students about an anti-Semitic bullying incident. Following Hamas's attack on Israel, a student at a Middle School in California is reported to have told four Jewish students that revenge is beautiful and all Israelis and Jews should be killed.

But now the Jewish students have been told that they can't discuss this incident. The daily little Tony Knett has been following this story and he joins us now. Tony, thanks for being here.

Absolutely.

So can you explain what happened here? What do we know? Why were these four Jewish students asked to sign this gag order and not talk to other students about this anti-Semitic bullying incident?

Well, we know surprisingly little compared to a lot of other anti-Semitic events and attacks around the country because the school has utilized what's called the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act as kind of a catch all to refuse access to media, refuse access to concerned parents.

What we do know, based on interviews of parents in the district and we're still investigating this further, is that four Jewish students, all age 11, were approached by a student, were told very horrible things again, all Jews should die among them.

And then the school in order to kind of try to smooth things over and shove things under the rug, implemented what's called a no-contact contract, which is kind of a common progressive measure that's in a lot of K through 12 schools,

which forbids students from talking about the incident to anyone from communicating it.

And it's this semi-sudo legalistic contract that they give to these kids in an effort to forbid anyone from knowing that in this case it looks like the administration goofed up big time.

Have you reached out to the school? Do you know why exactly they took this course of action? Are they saying why they took this course of action?

We did reach out to the school and they immediately hit us with a, well, we're not going to tell you anything at all because the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act gives us the right to forbid any information that may lead to the identification of a student.

That's not what FERPA says. That's not why the law was written in 1974, but that's what they are citing.

What they did tell us in their letter back to the Daily Signal was that these no-contact contracts are very common. They're a very effective way to keep students away from each other.

But this isn't the case. There's a school that I reported on in Indiana, which had a no-contact contract between students.

And the offending student who had committed sexual assault towards another who then signed a no-contact contract, then broke that contract, that flimsy piece of paper.

And eventually had to be expelled from school. So not really a good response at all. We're finding out more as we start to file freedom of information act requests, it's just going to take a little bit of time.

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