One thing became clear following Oct. 7 as campuses across the United States erupted with extreme and sometimes violent hostility against Israel and the United States as well as many instances of intimidation, harassment, and disruption to silence pro-Israel voices: students and faculty from the Middle East had a disproportionate role. This phenomenon points to a quiet revolution underway in higher education: the internationalization of American universities. Where is this heading? How can academia deal effectively with it? What can the public and the government do?

Neetu Arnold, a research fellow at the National Association of Scholars, has written on education issues for The Wall Street Journal, Tablet, National Review, and other publications. She holds a BSc from Cornell University.