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California’s legal system, like universities, fails to stand up to hate

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California universities say they are trying to send a tougher message on antisemitism.

Maybe they should tell the legal system to wake up as well.

Thirteen Stanford students were arrested in June 2024 for breaking into the offices of the Stanford University administration.

One of them was a journalist for the Stanford Daily, the student newspaper. Charges against him were dropped. 

But the guilt of at least some of the rest was never in doubt.

According to the university, the students broke into the administration offices, began vandalizing them, and barricaded themselves inside.

The incident took place at the height of the “encampment” movement, in which anti-Israel activists occupied universities’ campuses in tent cities. Some specifically targeted Jews; others simply made Jewish students, faculty, and staff uncomfortable with pro-terror rhetoric and occasional violence.

The Stanford Daily reported that the students who broke into the administration were pro-Palestinian activists, and that they were chanting “Our office........

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