At the UN General Assembly in New York last Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu challenged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect and report on evidence of Iran’s continued violations of the 2015 nuclear deal. Specifically, the Israeli prime minister pointed to the archive of documents pertaining to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear-weapons program that was discovered and acquired by the Mossad earlier this year, as well as to additional clandestine sites whose existence had not yet been made public. Amnon Lord comments:

Netanyahu . . . revealed that some fifteen kilograms of radioactive material was dispersed [among various locations in] Tehran. Netanyahu advised the residents of the city to buy Geiger counters . . . to ensure they were not affected by the radiation. But the big question is what the IAEA’s Director General Yukiya Amano is going to do now that he is aware of the secret nuclear warehouse [in Tehran] that Netanyahu unveiled, which could potentially store some 300 tons of radioactive material. . . .

Netanyahu has once again stated in public that the nuclear deal was based on a lie that had received a stamp of approval by the IAEA. As was the case in the press conference several months ago, in which he exposed the existence of the nuclear archive, on Thursday the prime minister showed more evidence corroborating Iran’s intent to develop nuclear weapons. It will be hard for Amano to ignore the challenge. . . .

But Netanyahu’s most vociferous attack was on Europe. “Think about this: the same week Iran was caught red-handed trying to murder European citizens, European leaders were rolling out the red carpet for President Rouhani, promising to give Iran even more money,” Netanyahu said. . . .

Netanyahu’s speech was different from his other addresses before the UN General Assembly. As before, he provided damning evidence against Iran and built a case like a well-trained prosecutor. . . . But he also managed to do something that no other Israeli public advocate or frankly anyone else has been able to do on the world stage: he has made a compelling case for nullifying the nuclear deal, managed to make the case for the policy adopted by Israel and the United States, and to convey his message in a convincing manner.

While it is commendable that administrators of several universities finally called upon police to crack down on violent and disruptive anti-Israel protests, the actions they have taken may be insufficient. At Columbia, demonstrators reestablished their encampment on the main quad after it had been cleared by the police, and the university seems reluctant to use force again. The school also decided to hold classes remotely until the end of the semester. Such moves, whatever their merits, do nothing to fix the factors that allowed campuses to become hotbeds of pro-Hamas activism in the first place. The editors of National Review examine how things go to this point:

Since the 10/7 massacre, Columbia’s Jewish students have been forced to endure routine calls for their execution. It shouldn’t have taken the slaughter, rape, and brutalization of Israeli Jews to expose chants like “Globalize the intifada” and “Death to the Zionist state” as calls for violence, but the university refused to intervene on behalf of its besieged students. When an Israeli student was beaten with a stick outside Columbia’s library, it occasioned little soul-searching from faculty. Indeed, it served only as the impetus to establish an “Anti-Semitism Task Force,” which subsequently expressed “serious concerns” about the university’s commitment to enforcing its codes of conduct against anti-Semitic violators.

But little was done. Indeed, as late as last month the school served as host to speakers who praised the 10/7 attacks and even “hijacking airplanes” as “important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in.”

The school’s lackadaisical approach created a permission structure to menace and harass Jewish students, and that’s what happened. . . . Now is the time finally to do something about this kind of harassment and associated acts of trespass and disorder. Yale did the right thing when police cleared out an encampment [on Monday]. But Columbia remains a daily reminder of what happens when freaks and haters are allowed to impose their will on campus.