Universities should not be negotiating with their antisemitic students

Published May 16, 2024 2:07pm ET



University leaders who bend the knee to antisemitic mobs should be removed from their posts, as they are encouraging even worse behavior from protesters while allowing them to control university decisions.

The California State University system has offered an example of what exactly should happen. Mike Lee, the president of Sonoma State University, announced that he had cut a deal with antisemitic protesters, agreeing to start an academic boycott of Israel and to work with the antisemitic student group Students for Justice in Palestine as an advisory council on his decision-making.

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