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December 7, 2016 LDB Testifies Before Ohio Assembly in Support of anti-BDS Legislation

On Tuesday, December 6, I testified in front of the Ohio Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee in support of Ohio’s anti-BDS bill, H.B. No. 476, “to prohibit a state agency from contracting with a company that is boycotting Israel or disinvesting from Israel.” The bill is a very important response to the anti-Semitic Boycotts, […]

November 30, 2016 Good News From Ohio

Earlier this afternoon, the Ohio House passed an anti-BDS bill with a vote of 83-11. This important victory marks yet another blow to the anti-Semitic Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. The Bill, HB 476, “to enact section 9.75 of the Revised Code to prohibit a state agency from contracting with a company that is boycotting […]

November 21, 2016 Two New Blows to BDS

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 ushered in two significant failures of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. The first blow came from an overwhelming defeat of a divestment resolution at the University of Michigan, which we blogged about earlier this week. This was the fifth failed divestment resolution in the past eleven years at […]

November 17, 2016 Anti-Semitic BDS Campaign Rejected by U of Michigan Students

On Tuesday night, the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement against Israel took yet another blow: the University Michigan Student Government voted down a BDS resolution by a wide margin of 34 against, 13 in favor, and 3 abstentions. This marks the fifth BDS campaign at the University in the past 11 years that has sought […]

November 10, 2016 Victory Against U.K. Campus Anti-Semitism

Defining anti-Semitism has again proven its importance – this time, in the UK. Last week, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA), the UK’s leading universities regulator, ruled in favor of a disabled Jewish student’s complaint of campus anti-Semitism. The decision cited the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia’s Working Definition of Anti-Semitism (“Working […]

October 31, 2016 ISGAP’s Fall International Antisemitism Seminar Series

LDB is pleased to share ISGAP’s (Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy) 2016 International Seminar Series, entitled “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective.” Please find the Fall schedule below. ISGAP’s seminars are open to students, faculty and the general public. For more information, contact Ira Guberman at 212-230-1840 or info@isgap.org Columbia University Location: William and […]

October 25, 2016 Vandalism at University of Minnesota Law School Prior to LDB Presentation

Last week, I visited the University of Minnesota Law School to deliver a lunch lecture on anti-Semitism in higher education. It was one of a few campus visits I made this fall, and until now, the law students have been gracious hosts. This was different. The flyers announcing my lecture were torn down, apparently by […]

September 29, 2016 Wrong-Headed Initiative

Dr. Diane B. Kunz, Esq. Wrong-Headed Initiative Equal treatment before United States law and government. That is a foundational American principle. Its aspirational neutrality, usually achieved, is one reason why people from so many nations with different ethnicities and differing religious beliefs have thrived in this country. Now J Street would challenge this basic principle […]

September 27, 2016 International Conference on Zionism and Anti-Semitism

The Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in Birkbeck, University of London has just announced their upcoming May 30 – June 1, 2017 conference on anti-Semitism and Zionism and is calling for the submission of papers to be presented: This timely conference will examine the interaction between Zionism and antisemitism as it has developed from the […]

September 13, 2016 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum supports IHRA definitions on anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial

This past week the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C united with scores of institutions and nations in taking up the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definitions of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. The announcement of support came after a High Level Forum on Global Antisemitism hosted by the United Nations. The […]