# Harmeet Dhillon, who led anti-Israel campus protest crackdown, resigns

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/harmeet-dhillon-who-led-anti-israel-campus-protest-crackdown-resigns/
- Published: 2026-11-07T00:44:46+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T01:24:35+00:00
- Original publisher: Middle East Eye (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/harmeet-dhillon-who-led-anti-israel-campus-protest-crackdown-resigns
- Topics: Americas, Middle East, World

## Key points

- Harmeet Dhillon has resigned from the Justice Department.
- She helped lead action against campus protests.
- Two other senior officials also left.

## Summary

Several senior Justice Department officials have resigned, including Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, who helped lead the Trump administration’s response to pro-Palestinian campus protests. Her departure matters because her tenure saw the department target universities over student activism and change how its Civil Rights Division handled discrimination complaints.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said he accepted Dhillon’s resignation on Thursday; she had submitted it in October and agreed to stay until the election. The article says she was also involved in unsuccessful efforts to obtain voter registration lists from about 30 states. Blanche announced the resignations of National Security Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg and Florida US Attorney Jason Reding Quinones on Friday, amid wider tensions over prosecutions pursued by the department.

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