Last week, a large group of students vandalized their own school trying to attack a Jewish teacher who attended a rally for Israel. Some public officials like New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York State Attorney General Tish James condemned the rampage as clearly anti-Semitic. Others, while saying the incident was “unacceptable,” maintained that the students involved were simply “14- and 15-year-olds doing what 14- and 15-year-olds do,” and that we need to understand what caused the mayhem.