A Long Overdue Response to Campus Antisemitism

Last week, Carol L. Folt, president of the University of Southern California, released a letter to the University's Jewish community in which she promised "specific new actions to . . . combat antisemitism" at USC. This isn't the first time President Folt, who took office in 2019, has commented on antisemitism. In 2020, Rose Ritch, then vice-president of the student government, resigned amid a social media campaign to "impeach her Zionist ass." Like other Jewish students who take exception to the idea that Jewish states alone have no right to exist, Ritch was familiar with ignorant, vile equations of Zionism with white supremacy. But after weeks of variations on this theme, Ritch had had enough.