Over the past year, the alarming growth of violent crime within Israeli Arab communities has received much attention from the Israeli press and government—and has shown no sign of abating. Ben-Dror Yemini examines the problem:

The violence has now reached east Jerusalem, whose Palestinian residents have become the tip of the spear when it comes to interethnic violence in Israel. Violence has also become rampant within the Bedouin community in southern Israel, which has turned into a hotbed for Bedouin-run protection rackets, violent crimes, and uncontrollable theft—occurring in both private residential homes and military bases.

The . . . country’s Arab population is bleeding itself dry with frequent violent blood feuds, as well as countless murders—including of women murdered to “protect the family’s honor.”

The Bedouin minority seems to want conflict despite the state’s willingness to legalize unrecognized Bedouin towns and villages, while the majority of eastern Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents seem to want to continue the fight against the state of Israel.

Israel, nevertheless, must continue investing in the sector, all while correcting the biggest oversight of the last decade: loss of governance that has devolved into nothing less than lawlessness. The blame lies with both the government that let the situation deteriorate due to its reluctance not to butt heads with the Arab leadership, which for its part never seems to take responsibility for the actions of its own sector, which effectively encourages further violence.

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.