Trump Has a Golden Opportunity To Deploy Federal Law Against Campus Antisemites

‘Deprivation of Rights’ Laws, originally used to target the Ku Klux Klan, offer a means to address the wave of antisemitic harassment — and worse — at colleges across America.

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Protesters in front of Woolsey Hall on the campus of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 22, 2024. Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP

President-elect Trump’s second term offers an opportunity to renew enforcement of America’s laws dealing with the growing scourge of antisemitism — which has been on the rise in the aftermath of October 7 and the Biden administration’s seeming indifference.

For the past four years the federal government has taken what is most charitably described as a “hands off” approach to enforcing these laws. Since the attack on Israel by Hamas and the subsequent spread of overt campus antisemitism, that approach has become all the more obvious, especially to those of us in the legal activist field.  

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