Zionism and Title VI

I've recently posted on SSRN a new essay, "Zionism and Title VI," forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review Forum. HLR had asked me to respond to an essay by Professors Ben Eidelson and Deborah Hellman, applying Title VI's antidiscrimination rules to recent campus protests. Here's the SSRN abstract of my draft paper:

Universities across America have been accused of failing to protect their Jewish and Israeli students by failing to enforce their own rules on campus protests. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, no one may be excluded from participation in a federally funded activity on the ground of race or national origin. Yet while some protests have allegedly targeted Jews or Israelis for exclusion from campus spaces, more are alleged to have targeted Zionists, those who support a nation