The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) still has not found time to condemn Iranian officials’ demand for author Salman Rushdie’s murder but, rest assured, it its priorities straight: Instead, its Committee on Academic Freedom has written a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights expressing “grave concern” that the Commission has warned of an increase in anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses. Such a finding, after all, might stigmatize anti-Semitic discourse.