A Legal Strategy Against Campus Antisemitism - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal

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Wonder Land: College Presidents' spineless response to antisemitic protests are the culmination of academia’s plummet the past 50 years which has included grade inflation, speech codes, trigger warnings and ultimately cancel culture. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly

The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were equivocal, evasive and legalistic when they testified before Congress last week about antisemitism on campus. One reason is that their institutions, along with many others, face serious legal risk as a result of the hostility and intimidation to which their Jewish students have been subjected.

These students are afraid to go to their campus Hillels, many of which have been vandalized or threatened. They are anxious about sleeping in Jewish fraternity houses. Some are afraid to wear kippot or Stars of David. These institutions—which claim to support free speech, diversity, equity and inclusion—are complicit in cultivating a climate hostile to Jews. In doing so, they have not only betrayed their stated values but run afoul of the law.