On Saturday—less than a week after her shameful performance at congressional hearings about campus anti-Semitism—Liz Magill resigned from her position as president of the University of Pennsylvania. This outcome suggests that there are tangible consequences for the behaviors that have allowed for the corruption of the universities, and made them incubators of hostility to Jews. Another sort of tangible consequence can come from the application of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Michael A. Helfand explains:

Title VI prohibits institutions receiving federal funding—including indirect funding—from discriminating on the basis of “race, color, or national origin.” Universities are subject to these requirements because they typically receive various forms of federal funding, including benefiting indirectly from federally subsidized student loans.

Importantly, the antidiscrimination rules of Title VI prohibit more than just direct discrimination. They also prohibit schools from acting with “deliberate indifference” to “severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive” harassment, including peer-to-peer harassment. So, a university would be in violation of Title VI if it is aware of—and fails to address adequately—harassment on the basis of race, color, or national origins that is so severe that it prevents the victim from accessing the range of educational opportunities available to all other students.

All told, given the broad interpretation of Title VI across multiple administrations, we are likely to see a wave of complaints filed against universities for failing to address severe and pervasive anti-Semitism on campuses.

If there is to be peace, Palestinians will have to unlearn the hatred of Israel they have imbibed during nearly two decades of Hamas rule. This will be a difficult task, but Cole Aronson argues, drawing on the experiences of World War II, that Israel has already gotten off to a strong start:

The population’s compliance can . . . be won by a new regime that satisfies its immediate material needs, even if that new regime is sponsored by a government until recently at war with the population’s former regime. Axis civilians were made needy through bombing. Peaceful compliance with the Allies became a good alternative to supporting violent resistance to the Allies.

Israel’s current campaign makes a moderate Gaza more likely, not less. Destroying Hamas not only deprives Islamists of the ability to rule—it proves the futility of armed resistance to Israel, a condition for peace. The destruction of buildings not only deprives Hamas of its hideouts. It also gives ordinary Palestinians strong reasons to shun groups planning to replicate Hamas’s behavior.