How the Next President Can Help Restore Jewish Civil Rights on Campus

When anti-Israel encampments emerged on American college campuses last spring, Jewish students and faculty were discriminated against, harassed, and assaulted. Some schools admirably addressed this behavior and the encampments that motivated it. But most did not.

Throughout that time, the Biden administration tended to condemn overtly anti-Semitic behavior, but took no substantive action against those universities that tolerated it. In his December essay, the legal analyst Tal Fortgang explores how the incoming administration can take a different path, using existing law to punish schools that continue to enable Jew-hatred. This essay was also the focus of a live discussion between Fortgang and the George Mason University law professor David E. Bernstein. In a discussion moderated by Mosaic’s editor Jonathan Silver, they analyzed how Jews can persuade the state and federal governments to defend their rights, and the role the new administration can play in fixing the campus anti-Semitism crisis. You can watch the discussion or read the transcript below.

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