On May 11, masked hooligans surrounded a synagogue in Brooklyn, shoved congregants, and blocked them from entering. Just a few days before, keffiyeh-clad thugs rushed police barricades protecting a Manhattan synagogue. In April, a similar crowd harassed Jewish diners sitting at sidewalk tables. Ever since October 7, 2023, in fact, cities, towns, and campuses across America have been periodically overrun by such hoodlums.
Despite many of these acts being caught on video, few perpetrators have been forced to face the consequences of their actions—because their faces were covered.
There is a solution: anti-masking laws. For over a century, states across the country barred face-covering during mass gatherings to combat the Ku Klux Klan’s harassment and intimidation campaigns. These laws worked, making public exposure the price of participation in Klan rallies. Similar laws could work today…