Anti-Semitism - Brandeis Center

April 18, 2018 Death of Mel Gordon

On April 5, 2018, The New York Times printed the obituary of Professor Mel Gordon, a University of California Berkeley theater professor. However, the obituary does not mention Professor Gordon’s significance in helping to protect the rights of students on campus who have brought Title VI claims against the University.

April 17, 2018 Jewish Employee at Anne Frank House Banned from Wearing Kippa

The Anne Frank House has come under fire for preventing a Jewish employee from wearing his Kippa.

April 16, 2018 FutureLearn and Yad Vashem’s Online Anti-Semitism Course: Preview of Weeks 3 and 4

FutureLearn and Yad Vashem’s latest collaboration is well under way as their “Anti-Semitism: From Its Origins to the Present” entered its fourth week. Several weeks ago, the Brandeis Center provided a brief overview of the first two week’s material. This post will serve a similar function, detailing some of the material covered in weeks 3 and 4 of the course.

March 29, 2018 FutureLearn and Yad Vashem’s Online Anti-Semitism Course: Preview of Weeks 1 and 2

The Brandeis Center would like to call attention to FutureLearn’s latest online course, “Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present.” The course is currently in its second week, and upon enrollment, students will gain access to the first two weeks of material. The following represents a brief overview of some of the topics discussed in these early weeks, as well as a general outline.

March 23, 2018 Fighting Campus Anti-Semitism from Berkeley to Charlottesville

Reposted with permission from the author, from VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY, Response to Clark Hall By Baruch Nutovic (President of the LDB Law Student Chapter at the University of Virginia School of Law; UVA Law ’19) Response to Clark Hall When I was a freshman at University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), I came back to […]

March 23, 2018 Wisconsin State Legislature Passes Anti-BDS Bill

On March 20, the Wisconsin State legislature passed Assembly Bill 553—an anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel) bill that prohibits any state agency or other body in state government or local governmental units from adopting a rule, ordinance, policy, or procedure that involves the agency or governmental unit in a boycott of Israel or a person doing business in Israel or Israeli territory. In addition, the bill requires contracts between the state and nongovernmental entities to include a provision affirming that signatories are not, and will not engage in a prohibited boycott.

March 21, 2018 Nazi SS March in Latvia

An unchecked wave of anti-Semitic activity has been making its way across Europe in recent months, and troubling reports out of Eastern Europe suggest that Latvia has become a new harbor for this pernicious bias.

March 20, 2018 Washington Councilman Invokes Multiple Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories

D.C. City Council member Trayon White posted a video this past week claiming that Jewish financiers, in the form of the Rothschild family, have been the direct cause of the recent snowfalls in the United States capital. The same council member has previous stated that the Rothschild family is also in control of the United States federal government.

March 19, 2018 Anti-Semitic Vandalism in the Netherlands Rises 40%

In the past year, the frequency of recorded anti-Semitic vandalism incidents rose by 40 percent in the Netherlands. The 28 cases of vandalism, which were less than a quarter of the overall number of anti-Semitic incidents, mean the Netherlands has reached its highest level of anti-Semitic vandalism since 2007.

March 4, 2018 Louis D. Brandeis Center Holds Fifth Annual Law Student Leadership Conference

This February 25-26, the Louis D. Brandeis Center hosted its fifth annual National Law Student Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.