As a 2020 law school graduate, I, like many, did not have the graduation ceremony I was hoping for. I draped my complimentary hood over a Zara dress with puffy sleeves because it sort-of looked like regalia (from the side) (if I squinted my eyes), and I toasted to a pre-recorded YouTube video with some whiskey that I couldn’t taste because I had the Coronavirus. Then I packed up my Chicago apartment and drove twenty hours to Florida to obey the Florida Board of Bar Examiners’ quarantine orders for out-of-towners taking the July exam. A few days after my arrival, the test was postponed and moved to an online format. Now, as I sit in the Sunshine State half studying for the bar and half coordinating a rapidly approaching move to Denver for my clerkship, I am doing my best to divert my focus away from both the things that were taken from me in the past and the things uncertain in my future due to COVID-19. I have been thinking a lot about my favorite law school memories. Mainly, I have been thinking a lot about my time as a JIGSAW Fellow with the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (“the Brandeis Center”). For those unfamiliar with the program, the JIGSAW (“Justice Initiative Guiding Student Activists Worldwide”) Fellowship brings law students together from all over the country and trains them to advise undergraduates in combating antisemitism on campus. Most JIGSAW Fellows have themselves faced antisemitism on campus, and for that reason, the program is very special. We Fellows find great fulfillment in providing students with the tools we wish we would have had in their shoes. And the undergraduates trust and relate to us in a way they simply can’t trust and relate to many of the other Israel groups on campus. It’s a natural bond. And it works. Perhaps surprisingly to some, but unsurprisingly to those paying attention, antisemitism actually increased when COVID-19 hit. We saw smear campaigns against Jewish students for “starting the Coronavirus.” And we saw antisemitic “Zoombombing” happening in all types of online meetings. It would have been totally understandable for Jewish and Israel-defending students to recede from the campus dialogue at this time. Their lives had been thrown into disarray. Tensions were high. And hate was unpredictable. But these students are warriors. They did not back down, and we were lucky enough to have some of them reach out to the Brandeis Center. One such student was Nathan Silberberg, secretary of Santa Monica College’s (SMC) student government, who had met my friend and JIGSAW Fellow Matt Gordon on a joint Hasbara-JIGSAW trip to Israel over a year ago. Matt stayed in touch with Nathan during Nathan’s student government service, and Matt was Nathan’s first call when Nathan decided it was time to introduce a resolution defining “antisemitism.” I was looped in to help. Our challenge was coming up with a resolution that would protect all Jewish students on campus—especially those being harassed for expressing their shared Jewish ancestry and ethnicity while speaking about Israel—without using politicized “trigger words” that would cause students to oppose the resolution. We were told “no IHRA,” “no Zionism,” and even “no Israel.” We put our heads together, and with the help of our brilliant leader, Alyza Lewin, we came up with the following language: “The A.S. does not tolerate antisemitic harassment or discrimination, including on the basis of actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnicity, religion, race, national origin, or cultural identity.” Importantly, the resolution specifically condemned antisemitism, without universalizing or watering down the issue. This was a significant accomplishment for Jewish students at SMC, who are facing increasing anti-Jewish hostility on campus. The resolution passed unanimously. We left out the buzzwords. But the protection was just as comprehensive. When a Jew is told to check her Zionism at the door, that is discrimination on the basis of her ethnicity, ancestry, and national origin. Though it is not how anti-Jewish discrimination has traditionally been thought of, it is undeniably true. The recent Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism, which also makes this point, is an important first step at helping Jews receive the protection they ought to be entitled to under existing law—the same protection that all other ethnic groups are entitled to. And student government resolutions like the one that recently passed at SMC will continue that work. Even though it happened during a markedly difficult moment, this feat stands out to me as one of my favorite moments in law school. Santa Monica College is infamous for egregious antisemitism, and the first student government meeting about defining “antisemitism” chaotically devolved. Most students would’ve given up. Nathan’s courage in bringing this resolution was inspiring. Getting to know him—through redlining, mock Zoom arguments and discussions about his passions and dreams—helped me to fully understand the privilege of becoming a juris doctor. I will miss being a JIGSAW Fellow, but I know that the Fellowship was just my first step. The legal tools I gained will remain in my toolkit as I continue on with my legal career, where I will remain eager to use them to help Jews who are being discriminated against. And I know my class of JIGSAW Fellows will be right there with me.