As a recent graduate student at Stanford, Joby Bernstein served as president of the Jewish Business Student Association and now sits on the boards of several Jewish and Democratic organizations in the Bay Area. He also ran for Congress on a platform that included support for Israel—a stance that earned him both passionate support and significant backlash. These experiences, from campus protests to political campaigns, have given him a front-row seat to the tensions between free speech, antisemitism, and civic responsibility.