Charlottesville Candlelight Vigil at the White House, Washington, DC USA With the rise in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during the global COVID pandemic, the Brandeis Center remains vigilant and steadfast in its longstanding effort to monitor and combat traditional forms of anti-Semitism that are inspired by the far-right. A recent complaint filed with the Office for Civil Rights by the Brandeis Center and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, documents years of anti-Semitic harassment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, which includes numerous swastikas on UIUC’s campus and vandalism of Jewish ritual items like menorahs and mezuzahs. The State Department’s recent Virtual Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism focused on the drastic increase of anti-Semitism on the world wide web, which has been fertile ground for the spread of hate speech by white supremacists, neo-Nazi and other far-right conspirators. Dr. Joel Finkelstein, director of the Network Contagion Research Institute, shared his insights at the conference during his presentation about how to monitor, expose and combat extremism in both the real-world and virtual world. Dr. Finkelstein explained how anti-Semitism that emerges from online hate groups creates distorted ideas, images and ideologies. As hate speech online continues to grow, new social media platforms such as 4Chan and Gab have become hotbeds for white supremacist content. Dr. Finkelstein’s research revealed that such online discourse likely leads to anti-Semitic activities in the real-world. Indeed, Dr. Finkelstein’s remarks remind us that anti-Semitism motivated by far-right extremism continues to exist and gain traction on the world wide web and in the real world. Thus, an event like the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was not a random or isolated incident, but rather stemmed from an entrenched and organized community of far-right extremists that has found refuge and significant support online. The Brandeis Center has closely followed events surrounding the Charlottesville rally since 2017, when then-president of LDB’s Law Student Chapter at the University of Virginia School of Law reported on his participation in counter-protests that took place in response to the Unite the Right rally. As the grandson of a holocaust survivor, he shared his surreal first-hand experience witnessing thousands of white supremacists march through the streets of Charlottesville. More recently, the Brandeis Center co-sponsored an event hosted by the District of Columbia Bar that featured a briefing by the legal team who filed a lawsuit on behalf of some of the victims who were attacked by far-right extremists at the Unite the Right rally. The Brandeis Center has long been engaged in the effort to combat far-right manifestations of anti-Semitism. In 2018, the Brandeis Center intervened in response to unfair disciplinary measures meted out against teachers at the Stoughton Public School in Massachusetts, who spoke out against swastikas that defaced school grounds. And in 2017, the Brandeis Center took action against white supremacy and Neo-Nazism at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, after a graduate student instructor declared on social media that he was a white supremacist and urged his associates to attack a Virginia tech student who spoke out against him; in that case, the Brandeis Center contacted the university and demanded that it take concrete steps to respond to the situation pursuant to its legal obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As anti-Semitism surges world-wide, including the deadliest physical attack committed against Jews in U.S. history at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, it is incumbent upon everyone engaged in the fight against anti-Semitism to recognize all manifestations of anti-Semitism, regardless of whether they emanate from the Left or the Right of the ideological spectrum. Certainly, the Brandeis Center will continue its longstanding efforts to combat anti-Semitism in all its forms.