On April 11, the Associated Students Senate at University of California—Santa Barbara (UCSB) unanimously passed a resolution condemning both anti-Semitism and hate speech. Passed on Yom HaShoah, which is the Holocaust Remembrance Day, this resolution affirms the Senate “will strive to be allies of the Jewish community,” and members of other identities including religion, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, class, and gender. This news coming out of UCSB, which has also been the site of numerous failed BDS resolutions, is another positive step in the ongoing battle against campus anti-Semitism. This resolution comes on the heels of numerous high-profile anti-Semitic incidents within the University of California system. In October of 2014, flyers circulated on UCSB’s campus stated that “ ‘9/11’ was Mossad,” Israel’s intelligence agency. In 2017, UC Berkeley’s student newspaper, the Daily Californian, published an anti-Semitic image following a speech by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz. This image portrayed a grinning Dershowitz, who had recently given a speech on campus entitled the “Liberal Case for Israel,” while stepping on a man with a Palestinian flag and holding up an Israeli soldier shooting an unarmed man. While the Berkeley Chancellor responded by condemning both the incident, it left many in the University of California system feeling angry and disappointed. Most recently, the word “Jew” was found spray painted on a dumpster on UCSB’s campus. These incidents provided the catalyst for the Senate resolution as several students voiced their concern with the rising levels of anti-Semitism on campus. One student, who also was a student sponsor of the resolution, stated that these anti-Semitic incidents “makes Jewish people feel like they’re being compared to trash.” The resolution passed last week builds on a similar declaration agreed upon by the UCSB Associated Students Senate in 2015. Similar to the recently passed resolution, the 2015 declaration also “unequivocally condemn[ed] all forms of anti-Semitism…and reject[ed] attempts to justify anti-Jewish hatred or violent attacks as an acceptable expression of disapproval or frustration.” In an attempt to provide clarity and guidance as to what is considered anti-Semitic activity, the 2015 resolution adopted the United States Department of State definition of anti-Semitism and included numerous illustrative examples of this form of bigotry. The more recent declaration is broader in scope. It condemns anti-Semitism as well as all forms of hate speech. One of the authors of the resolution summed up the bill well, saying: “It’s not just the Jewish community. For example, I am not Jewish, however, I come from a Hispanic background and I am from a marginalized community as well, so I could sympathize with what my allies in the Jewish community have witnessed here at UCSB, and beyond UCSB. This resolution is something that not only condemns anti-Semitism, but also hate speech.” Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Hillel, Isla Vista Chabad, Guachos United for Israel, and Students Supporting Israel, this resolution also states that the Senate “will respect the right of all students to freedom of speech, while exercising its own First amendment rights to condemn hate speech whenever it occurs on campus.” The UCSB resolution is indicative of an encouraging trend occurring in recent years as more student governments have begun passing resolutions condemning anti-Semitism. For example, in 2015 the Undergraduate Student Assembly at the University of California—Los Angeles passed a resolution that denounced all forms of anti-Semitism and protected Jewish students from future discrimination. In addition, the Associated Students at San Diego State University passed “A Resolution to Condemn Anti-Semitism,” last year which had similar objectives. These resolutions, as well as those passed at campuses like Capital University, Indiana University, and the Toronto-based Ryerson University, formally adopted the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism as well. Setting the tone for the rest of the university community and raising awareness as to the prevalence of anti-Semitism and hate speech on campus, the UCSB resolution condemning anti-Semitism and hate speech represents a significant win in the struggle against anti-Semitism. As more campuses follow in UCSB’s admirable footsteps, the place for these regressive behaviors will soon no longer exist.