38 No. 74 JUSTICE trail, you'll never have a case,” she said. While she hopes that the moments which leave students feeling uncomfortable never grow into a case, without documenting it, they will never have a record of how antisemitism has grown on their campuses. Cojab explained that there are both advocates and activists: while activists stand outside the gates of the university with a megaphone, everyone can and should be an advocate when the time comes. “Are you a Maccabee who goes out there and fights and publicizes the miracle, or are you Esther who hides your identity until a strategic moment, and you change the fate of the Jewish people through a conversation?” Cojab said. “Everyone does have to stand up, but not everyone has to be an activist.” n Rebecca Massel is a rising senior at Columbia University, where she is studying political science. She is a deputy news editor at the Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia’s student newspaper, where she has reported on antisemitism on campus, the pro-Palestine movement, and the congressional and federal response.
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