Call out the National Guard to protect Jewish students

(JNS) — I remember well when Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1963 barred entry of two students, James Hood and Vivian Malone, to the University of Alabama because of their race.

The response from President John F. Kennedy and his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was electric. First, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach personally confronted the governor at the University of Alabama and sought in vain to convince him to desist. Kennedy reacted by federalizing the Alabama National Guard.

The two students returned to the university but, this time, Gen. Henry Graham was there...