August 8, 2014 UC Santa Barbara: The Brandeis Center Helps Reverse a Hostile Environment for Jewish Students As the University of California Santa Barbara’s student senate voted down an anti-Israel divestment measure in 2013, this campus seethed with anti-Semitic activity. The Student Advocate General – whose job is to educate students about their rights as members of the campus community – said on the floor of the student senate: “Israel is harvesting […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
August 7, 2014 Updating Agathie Christie: It Was Twelve Jews on the Orient Express Who Murdered Cinderella, Presumably to Make Her Blood Into Matzah From the “Forward”: French Senator Nathalie Goulet of the Union of Democrats and Independents party made the endorsement on Twitter earlier this week, Europe1.fr reported, in posting on her account the images of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bludgeoning a dying Pinocchio. The picture also showed Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni stabbing Cinderella and former […] Anti-Zionism Blog
August 6, 2014 Prof. Dawinder S. Sidhu Joins LDB Academic Advisory Board The Brandeis Center is pleased to announce another important addition to its advisory committee. Professor Dawinder ‘Dave’ S. Sidhu, a distinguished scholar of constitutional law and civil rights, is the newest addition to LDB’s Academic Advisory Board. Professsor Sidhu, who teaches law at the University of New Mexico, is known for his work in constitutional law, […] Blog
August 6, 2014 Post-Mortem New polls confirm that the Israeli public—most of whom are not fools—have come to the conclusion that Israel, though perhaps not losing the latest Gaza War, certainly has not won it. Now comes the next phase in “the long war” with a shift to diplomacy and lawfare. The odds here are really stacked against the […] Blog
August 5, 2014 The NGOS’ War on Israel According to Erasmus, “The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.” Tacitus argued the opposite. We shall see. The year 2014 should be remembered as “The Summer of Hamas’ Terror War.” Hamas’ goals may focus on killing Israelis, but its tactics are global. According to credible reports, Hamas’ reach extends to South […] Blog
August 5, 2014 No World War I—No Holocaust? Questions swirl about the long shadow of “the guns of August” that erupted in August, 1914. Would there have been no Holocaust without WWI? Probably yes, but that is only one lesson of many that we should consider from the WWI-WWII nexus. Would it been better if the outcome in WWI were different? Niall Ferguson’s […] Blog
August 4, 2014 More Reflections on the Gaza War Through a Glass Darkly Is this the first war in human history—recent evidence shows that wars were also integral to prehistory—in which the measure of “justice” is how close you can conform your military operations to the civilian-free casualties inflicted by the “good guys” who play video games? Did you know that around 20,000 French civilians were killed in […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
August 4, 2014 J’Accuse: The World Needs to “Impose a Solution”—on France—for it Betrayal of French Jewry and the Values of French Civilization According to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, “the world needs to impose a solution” on Israel to achieve Mideast peace. Of course, he gave lip service to “Israel security” without any concrete suggestions for curbing Hamas’ genocidal campaign against the Jewish state. He wants a two state solution—without any expression of concern that, unless the […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
August 4, 2014 “Moral Equivalency” vs. “Romantic Primitivism” I demur from those friends of Israel whose favorite mantra is that western media is guilty of “moral equivalency” for putting premeditated deaths which Hamas imposes not only on Israelis but its own people (including scores executed as “traitors” and thousands used as human shields) with the actions of the Israeli military that produce unintended […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
August 4, 2014 “The Protocols” Updated “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”—that seminal forgery at the beginning of modern anti-Semitism–was of course promulgated by the Okhrana, the Czarist secret police, though it was probably first composed in Paris. Twenty-first century anti-Semites—active in Europe, the U.S., and the Mideast including even Israel—are updating “The Protocols.” The notion of a a Netanyahu-Putin […] Blog