Perhaps the area where the fight against anti-Semitism in the U.S. runs fiercest is on college campuses. Some Jews, making use of a variety of federal anti-discrimination laws, have responded to anti-Jewish antagonism at the universities with legal action. Eli Lake examines what these efforts have achieved, looking primarily at the example of the University of Vermont, where, among other egregious incidents, a mob threw stones at the campus Hillel House. The Brandeis Center, a leading advocate for Jewish students on campus, filed a formal complaint with the Department of Education:

As a result, one year later, the university has reformed. While in the past, its official anti-discrimination policy did not include special protections for students based on their ancestry, the school has now updated its rules to be clear that anti-Semitism, along with any other hatred toward ethnic groups, is not accepted at the university. And Jewish students, according to the university’s Hillel House president Matt Vogel, now say they receive prompt responses to complaints from the administration, often within 24 hours.

Israel will likely respond directly against Iran after yesterday’s attack, and has made known that it will calibrate its retaliation based not on the extent of the damage, but on the scale of the attack. The specifics are anyone’s guess, but Edward Luttwak has a suggestion, put forth in an article published just hours before the missile barrage: cut off Tehran’s ability to send money and arms to Shiite Arab militias.

In practice, most of this cash comes from a single source: oil. . . . In other words, the flow of dollars that sustains Israel’s enemies, and which has caused so much trouble to Western interests from the Syrian desert to the Red Sea, emanates almost entirely from the oil loaded onto tankers at the export terminal on Khark Island, a speck of land about 25 kilometers off Iran’s southern coast. Benjamin Netanyahu warned in his recent speech to the UN General Assembly that Israel’s “long arm” can reach them too. Indeed, Khark’s location in the Persian Gulf is relatively close. At 1,516 kilometers from Israel’s main airbase, it’s far closer than the Houthis’ main oil import terminal at Hodeida in Yemen—a place that was destroyed by Israeli jets in July, and attacked again [on Sunday].