Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost this month warned college students protesting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that doing so while wearing a mask could be prosecuted as a felony.

He was invoking a 1953 state law, similar to laws on 15 other states’ books, originally created to control Ku Klux Klan activity.

Georgia is one of the states that still criminalizes masked demonstrations.

But don’t expect the AG in Atlanta, Georgia’s state capital, to enforce the law.

As anti-Israel protests continue to erupt across the Peach State, Fulton County DA Fani Willis is instead concentrating her ire (and her office’s budget) on prosecuting ex-President Donald Trump.

Like Ohio, Georgia has long outlawed protesting while masked, in response to the hoods that an earlier generation of ‘anti-Zionist activists,’ the KKK, used to obscure members’ identities

The violence of the Klan spurred Georgia to enact anti-masking laws in 1951.

Georgia’s law provides that a “person is guilty of a misdemeanor when he or she: wears a mask, hood, or device by which any portion of his or her face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to [intentionally] conceal his or her identity.”

Today, masked and violent mobs, reminiscent of that dark chapter of Georgia history, again stir unrest in the place once known as the city too busy to hate.

At Emory University, masked protesters pinned police officers against glass doors at the Candler School of Theology and threw projectiles at them.

At Georgia State University, protesters called police “pathetic” and “pigs” and likened them to the Ku Klux Klan in a chant that referred to the Atlanta Police Department: “APD, KKK, IDF, They’re all the same!” About 50 masked protesters occupied GSU’s Hurt Park while police stood by and observed them.

Some students were alarmed by the state’s lackadaisical response.

“It’s only going to get worse if you don’t push back,” one GSU student said.

But while many fear that the anti-Israel protests will increase in violence, Fulton County prosecutors seem unconcerned: Instead of charging protesters intent on reenacting the Klan’s greatest hits, they are focusing their law-enforcement energy and considerable taxpayer resources on prosecuting Trump.

Willis is pursuing Trump with unmatched enthusiasm.

Since 2021, she has convened a special grand jury, sent out target letters and heard testimony from 75 witnesses.

When the first grand jury unanimously found that “no widespread fraud” took place in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, Willis empaneled an additional grand jury and indicted Trump and 18 co-defendants.

The cost of Willis’ prosecution is also unprecedented.

Even prior to Willis’ prosecution, federal special counsels spent an estimated $13 million of taxpayer money investigating Trump.

Since then, Willis has upped that ante considerably.

She hired her lover, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, and two other attorneys to prosecute Trump.

Willis also made numerous “enhancement requests” for general trial expenses and has spent money on legal fees concerning her relationship with Wade, most recently having to litigate their romance in the Court of Appeals.

To restore confidence in the state’s justice system, Georgia’s legislature created a prosecutorial oversight panel.

Willis immediately played the race card, baselessly claiming that the panel would target the “14 minorities” serving as county DAs, before pivoting to smearing the legislature as misogynists and claiming the law is about “Daddy telling us how to do our job.”

Unable or unwilling to put duty ahead of ambition, Willis continues to focus her energies on Trump.

And why not? Prosecuting Trump can be a money-making proposition.

Judge Scott McAfee, the judge presiding over Trump’s trial, has raised $125,000 for his re-election campaign.

Doubtless Willis is joining the train of leftist grifters expanding their ambitions on the back of Trump’s fame.

Collegiate hate-peddlers cannot use free speech claims to justify actual violence and property destruction.

They cannot use public-health claims to justify masked rioting, especially since Georgia has not required or recommended the wearing of face masks since 2020.

These mask-wearing agitators are actively breaking the law, and prosecuting them does not require a stretched interpretation of an obscure statute.

Atlanta deserves a DA who will stand up to the ideological descendants of the KKK.

It needs a DA who will enforce the law even when it fails to advance her political ambitions — or to pad the vacation fund of her paramour.

Tim Rosenberger is a legal fellow at the Manhattan Institute.