Anti-Zionism - Brandeis Center

January 31, 2024 LDB Signs AMCHA Coalition Letter to Combat Anti-Semitism at UC Santa Cruz

The Brandeis Center joined an AMCHA-led coalition letter on January 18 to the University of California Regents, President, and California Attorney General expressing concerns regarding anti-Zionist activities in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) department at UC Santa Cruz. The Brandeis Center and the AMCHA Initiative were joined by 118 other education, civil rights, […]

November 20, 2023 Congressmen Join LDB’s Calls for OCR Action

Since Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, there have been record levels of anti-Semitism and Jewish hatred on college campuses across the nation. In a November 14 letter to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Representatives Kevin Kiley and Burgess Owens urged the office to take a more proactive approach is combatting […]

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November 20, 2023 Brandeis Center Signs Letter Urging International Committee of the Red Cross to Protect Hostages Taken by Hamas

The Brandeis Center (LDB) signed a joint-letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) asking it to act within its mandate to locate and establish communication with Israeli hostages and prevent violations of International Humanitarian Law by Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza. Violations include murdering civilians, using human shields to cover military targets, and publicly displaying […]

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January 10, 2023 Analysis Summary of Modern Anti-BDS Laws

A recent essay by Josh Halpern and Lavi Ben Dor has provided a much needed analysis of the historical and constitutional basis for “anti-BDS laws.” Boycotts: A First Amendment History provides insight into the long-held tradition of government compulsion or prohibition of economic boycotts. They conclude that modern anti-boycott laws are constitutional, enjoy wide historical […]

October 26, 2022 Alyza Lewin Speaks to Hadassah about Campus Anti-Semitism

The Hadassah Shir Shalom event, ‘Antisemitism: On Our Campuses,’ premiered a new video featuring Brandeis Center President Alyza D. Lewin. . In her video address, President Lewin speaks about contemporary anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses — much of which centers on denying the integral part of Jewish identity known as Zionism. Visit the Brandeis Center’s […]

March 18, 2022 Anti-Israel Hate Week ‘22 turbocharged by recent anti-Israel events

Beginning at the University of Toronto in 2005, the Anti-Israel Hate Week, also deceitfully known as “Israel Apartheid Week,” is an annual event held in March and April on campuses across 55 countries. In the United States, this hateful event will be held this year from March 21 to March 28. It is an anti-Israel […]

February 23, 2022 Professor Abraham Bell Challenges Amnesty International UK Report That Claims Israel is an “Apartheid” State

On February 3, the UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI) Charitable Trust hosted a webinar titled “Amnesty International’s Latest Attack on Israel.” Professor Abraham Bell explained that Amnesty International UK’s recent report alleging Israel is responsible for apartheid has been dismissed outright by the Biden administration and others as “absurd”. He identified flaws in the report’s […]

September 30, 2021 Professor Orde Kittrie debunks the charge that Israel is an “apartheid” nation and sounds the alarm on a newly established UN Commission

On September 14, the UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI) Charitable Trust hosted a webinar titled “The Accusation of Israel as an Apartheid State,” featuring a presentation by Arizona State University Law Professor Orde Kittrie on the mandate of the new United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) created by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Among […]

September 24, 2021 Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews, a Book Review by Diane Kunz

In her new book People Love Dead Jews – Reports from a Haunted Present, author Dara Horn quotes from a letter she received from Denise, a women who had read Horn’s novel The World to Come, the protagonist of which was a pogrom survivor. Denise chastised Horn for writing a dismal book, instead of one […]

September 2, 2021 Long Island Towns Adopt IHRA

At a board of trustees meeting on August 17th, 2021, The Village of Great Neck, N.Y., unanimously voted to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of anti-Semitism. The decision followed that of five other New York State municipalities to adopt the IHRA definition, including Hempstead, North Hempstead, Nassau County, Oyster Bay and […]