Anti-Semitism - Brandeis Center

June 22, 2022 UN Special Rapporteur Releases Action Plan to Combat Anti-Semitism

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, presented a report to the United Nations General Assembly in 2019 on increased anti-Semitism around the world. It took more than two years for a recommended action plan to follow. This document was released in May 2022 for governments and other […]

May 6, 2022 Brandeis Center President Lectures on Fighting Anti-Semitism on Campus

On March 24, Brandeis Center President Alyza Lewin presented a webinar titled “Responses and Solutions to Jew Hatred on Campus” hosted by the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF). In her webinar, Lewin discussed the issues presented by modern-day anti-Semitism, then explained the Brandeis Center’s legal approaches to combat anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment on college campuses […]

April 13, 2022 Iowa and Kansas Become 23rd and 24th States to Adopt IHRA Definition

On March 23, 2022, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed two bills into law to combat anti-Semitism: “Today we express Iowa’s enduring support for the State of Israel and our categorical rejection of anti-Semitism,” said Gov. Reynolds. “Together, these bills send an important message: Iowa continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with the State of Israel, […]

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 […]

March 7, 2022 IHRA Working Definition of Anti-Semitism Remains Strong in the Face of Criticism

In recent webinar lectures with Indiana University and the United Kingdom Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) Charitable Trust, Irwin Cotler, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada – and current LDB Academic Advisory Board member – discussed his beliefs of the importance of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of anti-Semitism. “The IHRA […]

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 […]

February 11, 2022 Members of Congress Send Letter to Office For Civil Rights Urging Action on Campus anti-Semitism

On February 4, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and a group of 39 bipartisan Members of Congress sent a letter to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), urging it to take concrete steps to support Jewish students and address the rising threat of anti-Semitism on campus. Members asked the Department of […]

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 […]

August 16, 2021 New Report on Anti-Semitism Within UNRWA Calls into Question Future of US Funding to Agency

Earlier this month UN Watch, a Geneva-based NGO that monitors the United Nations (UN), released a report edited by Hillel Neuer, titled “Beyond the Textbooks: a Report Exposing UNRWA Teachers’ Incitement to Antisemitism and Terrorism.” The report documents 22 cases of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff promotion of terror and incitement against Jews and […]