Campus antisemitism is in administrators’ hands

Published October 4, 2024 4:30am ET



So soon into the fall semester, and campus protest season is already in full swing. In fact, even to call it a “season” is to err. So constant, so widespread are the protests and “sit-ins” and “occupations” of this building or that quad, it’s a wonder anyone on campuses has time to learn anything. On the first anniversary of Hamas’s brutal Oct. 7 slaughter of Israeli citizens, this month in particular is likely to see even more turmoil engulf our institutions of purportedly higher education: As in the interim since the attacks on Israel and the months of violent American campus protests that followed, leftist student agitators have only continued to champion their latest cause du jour (“disinvestment” or “Free Palestine” for some, terrorism for most), and university administrators have continued to dither and wail about what to do about it.

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