That pattern is old: expulsions, blood libels, pogroms, the Holocaust, and repeated targeting of synagogues, Jewish neighborhoods, and Jewish children. The pretext changes. The target does not. After October 7, many of the incidents in California and elsewhere followed the same logic—Jewish students blocked from campus spaces, Stars of David treated as provocations, Holocaust comments, vandalism of Jewish institutions—without requiring the victim to have said anything about Gaza. Existence plus visibility was enough. foxnews.com That is different from debate over Israeli government policy. People can criticize a government without targeting a people. A lot of the current surge does not stay on that side of the line. It treats “Jew,” “Zionist,” and “Israeli” as interchangeable, then treats Jewish presence itself as the problem. When institutions treat that as complicated politics instead of harassment, they leave people unprotected for existing.Both Jews and Muslims have a right not to be harassed for who they are. The record in California schools and universities shows that right was applied unevenly when the harassment of Jews came from sources those institutions were reluctant to confront.