In the past year, three Ukrainians were killed in Israel by Palestinian terrorists who were supported mainly by Iran. At the same, Tehran has provided its Russian allies with military drones and other forms of technological assistance with which to kill Ukrainians in Ukraine. Mark Dubowitz urges Kyiv to acknowledge that it shares a common enemy with Jerusalem, and to act accordingly:

While it fights against the brutal Russian onslaught, Ukraine should similarly rise to the defense of its citizens abroad, even as it strives to protect them at home. While it may be too preoccupied with wartime struggles to prosecute individual cases, Kyiv should go beyond its condemnation of the recent Palestinian terror attacks to a fuller review of policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ukraine has voted against Israel 105 times, or 79 percent of total Israel-related resolutions, since 2015.

Yet in their common struggle against dictatorships and their terrorist proxies, Ukraine and Israel have shared interests and values. . . . And even as Kyiv understandably appeals for more help in the war, it should be mindful of the fact that Israel is busy fighting its own war—on the streets, against Tehran-backed terrorists targeting its civilians.

When Israel fights back against Iran and Iran-backed Palestinian terrorism, it is acting in Ukraine’s defense, as well. Kyiv needs to recognize that, publicly and unequivocally. It may also help strengthen the case for Israeli military support.

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.