Anti-Semitism - Brandeis Center

July 26, 2018 Austrian Freedom Party Proposes Jewish Registries for Kosher Food

The far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) proposed a plan that would require Jews to add their name to a government registry in order to be allowed to purchase kosher meat. The same rules would apply to Muslims who intend to purchase halal meat.

July 19, 2018 Labour Anti-Semitism Affecting Jewish Students in the United Kingdom

Jewish students in the United Kingdom are blaming the British Labour Party’s recent spate of anti-Semitic statements and actions on the rise in campus anti-Jewish discrimination in the England.

July 19, 2018 South Carolina Governor Signs Anti-Semitism Definition Bill Into Law

On July 6th, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed an anti-Semitism definition bill into law, making South Carolina the first state to do so.

June 19, 2018 Call for Papers: The Future of Holocaust Testimonies

The following Call for Papers on Holocaust testimonies, recently received by the Louis D. Brandeis Center, may be of interest to some of our readers: The Holocaust Studies Program of Western Galilee College, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California, and the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, […]

June 18, 2018 Letter to President of Florida State University

Last week, the Brandeis Center’s Director of Legal Initiatives Aviva Vogelstein  sent a letter to Florida State University (FSU) President John Thrasher, urging his administration to address numerous hateful social media postings by FSU students, targeting those who are Jewish, Israeli, or simply pro-Israel. These students, who were affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine […]

June 14, 2018 University of Oregon Students Pass BDS Resolution Despite Wide Opposition

After several BDS fails this semester on campuses like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Texas A&M University, and the University of Arkansas, the Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) Senate passed a BDS resolution on Wednesday, May 23rd.

June 11, 2018 Columbia Professor Provokes Controversy with Anti-Semitic Statements

Professor Hamid Dabashi, a tenured professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, recently posted anti-Semitic statements on his public Facebook page. These egregious statements prompted Columbia faculty, alumni, and students to send a letter to the university urging it to take action.

June 8, 2018 King’s College London Adopts International Definition of Anti-Semitism

King’s College London unanimously adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, becoming one of the first British universities to do so. The decision follows a number of instances of harassment of Jewish students at the university.

June 7, 2018 Anti-Semitic Cartoon to be Removed from Textbooks in Belgium

An overtly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comic featured in Belgian geography textbooks, to which the International Legal Forum first brought attention to, will now be removed from subsequent editions of the textbook.

June 6, 2018 German Intelligence Agency Classifies BDS as Anti-Semitism

The German domestic intelligence agency, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, has recently labeled the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement as anti-Semitic.