I am Jewish, and I am afraid.

On Wednesday night, two young staffers at the Israeli embassy were killed outside of a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. by a man who chanted, "Free, free Palestine!" afterward. That comes on the heels of attacks on Israeli embassies and consulates in Mexico, Serbia, Denmark and Germany.

It's part of a worldwide uptick in antisemitic violence since the Hamas assault on Israel in October 2023.

But I'm also afraid of censorship, which is the enemy of democracy in all times and places. On our college campuses, especially, free expression is under fire from the White House and its spineless accomplices in university leadership. And I fear that these horrific murders in Washington will make it yet more difficult for any of us to speak our minds.

Witness recent events at George Washington University and New York University, where graduation speakers were penalized for criticizing Israel's mass killings in Gaza. The offending orator at George Washington was banned from campus. NYU withheld its speaker's diploma.

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