Courts are beginning to render decisions in the wave of cases filed following universities’ widespread failure to protect Jewish students from discrimination after the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel unleashed a torrent of Jew-hatred on college campuses.

The early verdict is encouraging: courts aren’t buying into the widely-abused canard that these protests are merely anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic—a mostly nonsensical construct that might help anti-Semites sleep better at night but which can rarely withstand rational, let alone legal, scrutiny.