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 […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
September 5, 2021 The Louis D. Brandeis Center Appoints Steven Resnicoff to Academic Advisory Board Washington, D.C., August 5, 2021: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Steven H. Resnicoff to the Center’s Academic Advisory Board. Mr. Resnicoff is a professor of law at DePaul University and director of the university’s Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies (JLJS). […] Blog
September 2, 2021 International Humanitarian Law In Asymmetric Warfare The Louis D. Brandeis Center (LDB or the Brandeis Center) has published an important new fact sheet on its website on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and its application in asymmetric warfare, or conflicts between a state or traditional force and a non-traditional or non-state force (e.g., Israel and Hamas). This fact sheet educates students and others […] Blog
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 […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
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 […] Anti-Semitism Blog
August 10, 2021 At Central America Forum for Israel, U.S. Senators Call for Global Adoption of IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism At last week’s virtual Central America Forum for Israel conference, U.S. Senators James Lankford and Jacky Rosen – co-founders and co-chairs of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism – called for a wider adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism in combatting surging global Jew-hatred. The Central America […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 27, 2021 LDB’s Summer Speaker Series Continues with Lesley Klaff and Mark Goldfeder Discussing “Law and Jewish Identity” On July 7th, Professor and Brandeis Center Academic Advisory Board Member Lesley Klaff and Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder continued the Brandeis Center’s Summer Speaker Series with a discussion about “Law and Jewish Identity.” Klaff and Goldfeder provided insightful legal analyses as part of a discussion about two age-old questions with regard to Jewish identity: are […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 8, 2021 LDB Signs Letter to University Presidents Requesting Adoption of IHRA The Brandeis Center recently joined thirty Jewish and civil rights organizations in signing a letter encouraging 350 different university presidents to formally adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. The letter, led by the Zionist Organization of America, addresses the spike in anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic acts—particularly in Europe and the United […] Blog
July 8, 2021 Bret Stephens’ NYT Column Discusses LDB Case ICYMI: New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens’ recent article “discusses the Brandeis Center’s case against Stanford University as a prominent example of the folly in using a “new racism” to solve an “old racism.” The new version of “equity,” he argues, has developed an “antiracist discrimination” to remedy older forms of racial discrimination, only […] Blog
June 30, 2021 LDB Welcomes Four Summer Interns! Washington, D.C.: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (the Brandeis Center) is pleased to welcome four summer interns: Nathaniel Berman, Samantha Crane, Joni Rosenberg, and Chloe Shrager. The Brandeis Center continues to lead a robust and strategic legal response to the alarming increase in anti-Semitism on college and university campuses; from […] Blog