May 11, 2016 LDB’s Kenneth L. Marcus to Testify in Support of Ohio’s Anti-BDS Legislation On Tuesday, May 10, LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus will testify in support of Ohio’s anti-BDS bill, H.B. No. 476, “to enact section 9.75 of the Revised Code to prohibit a state agency from contracting with a company that is boycotting Israel or disinvesting from Israel.” The bill, introduced by Rep. Kirk Schuring, will be […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
May 4, 2016 Lawfare Project Announces Victory: LP Legal Actions Force Shutdown of ALL Kuwait Airways Inter-European Flights The Lawfare Project (LP) recently announced a major victory against Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) and the Arab League boycott of Israel. LP’s Swiss Counsel Philippe Grumbach filed civil and criminal complaints against KAC in Geneva, for refusing service to Israeli nationals, in violation of anti-discrimination laws. The complaints against the airline were filed on behalf […] Litigation Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
May 4, 2016 Protecting Free Speech and Banning Hecklers North Carolina’s Lt. Governor Dan Forest is proposing a bill that would impose punishments on hecklers who “interrupt the free expression of others” by shouting down speakers on the state’s 17-campus public university system, according to the Associated Press. If North Carolina passes this legislation, it will join six other states that have taken up […] Anti-Semitism
April 21, 2016 Professors Sue American Studies Association for Illegal Boycott of Israel A lawsuit filed on behalf of four professors against the American Studies Association for its boycott of Israel accuses the ASA of “blatant politicization” of an academic association, in violation of Washington, D.C law governing nonprofit organizations. Blog
April 21, 2016 Letter to Edward Liebow, AAA Executive Director Click here to Read the Letter to Dr. Liebow This document consists of a letter written to Dr. Edward Liebow, the Executive Director of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), challenging the AAA Task Force Report (TFR) on Israel-Palestine. Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
April 21, 2016 Congressional Taskforce Urges Federal Guidance on Anti-Semitism Yesterday, the Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism in the House of Representatives announced the issuance of an important letter from 38 Members of Congress to Secretary of Education John King, Jr. calling for the Department to “identify and distinguish when speech and activity that are critical of Israeli policies become anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation.” Coming […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
April 16, 2016 Rep. Zeldin Statement Condemning Growing BDS Movement on College Campuses Across America Washington, DC – Congressman Lee Zeldin, co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement condemning the growing Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement on college campuses across America: “In recent years, there have been far too many incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses.Just recently, I spoke to a student […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
April 14, 2016 California LDB Law Students Stand Up Against Injustice West Coast LDB law students have been influential in fighting against anti-Semitism and standing up against injustice this past month. At the University of California Los Angeles this past Wednesday, LDB law students sent a letter in support of Graduate Student Association (GSA) President Milan Chatterjee, who had been the subject of a wrongful impeachment […] Blog Anti-Zionism
April 12, 2016 When Does Anti-Israelism Turn Into Anti-Semitism? On Monday, March 28, Professor William Jacobson of Cornell University spoke to a room packed with law students at the University of Chicago, on the topic of “When Does Anti-Israelism Turn Into Anti-Semitism?” The lecture was sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Students and the Louis D. Brandeis Center law student chapter at […] Blog
April 6, 2016 Selective, Biased and Discriminatory: The American Anthropological Association Task Force Report on Israel-Palestine AAA Working Paper This document addresses the selective, biased and discriminatory nature of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Task Force Report (TFR) in respect to Public Health, the ethics of Operation Protective Edge and the effects of cradle-to-grave incitement in Palestinian society. The working paper recommends retraction of the TFR. We assert that there is a direct […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
March 31, 2016 Indiana University to Hold Major Anti-Semitism Conference Starting this weekend, The Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism at Indiana University (ISCA) will host its third international scholars conference, from Saturday evening, April 3 through Wednesday, April 7, on “Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Dynamics of Delegitimization.” LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus will chair a panel on Tuesday, April 5, with Shimon Samuels, […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
March 24, 2016 UC Regents’ Condemnation of Anti-Semitism & Anti-Zionism is Timely for UC Davis By Jennie Gross, LDB Senior Staff Attorney Wednesday’s announcement from the Regents of the University of California is particularly timely for the Davis campus, where a disruptive protest temporarily halted a lecture by Israeli diplomat George Deek earlier this month. LDB’s legal staff sent a letter to UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi on Monday, […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
March 21, 2016 Maintaining Columbia’s Ties to Israel: A Letter Opposing Divestment In response to a recent petition signed by 69 members of the Columbia faculty calling on the university to divest from companies that do business in Israel, David M. Schizer, Dean Emeritus and the Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law and Economics at Columbia Law School, created the following letter opposing divestment. The letter, which […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
March 21, 2016 In Praise of Justice Alito’s Statement in Ben-Levi v. Brown The government’s relationship with religion, if anything, means that the government may not categorically subject a particular religious group to heightened requirements for religious exercise, may not endorse and codify a particular interpretation of religious doctrine, and may not limit the religious exercise of an individual because the government disagrees with the individual’s interpretation of […] Litigation
March 17, 2016 Alabama and Georgia pass new Anti-BDS Measures More and more state legislatures are passing measures to combat the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The BDS movement seeks to delegitimize the State of Israel, and BDS campaigns on campus often lead to increased incidents of anti-Semitism. In mid-February, Alabama passed a bill condemning the BDS movement, becoming the fifth state […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
March 15, 2016 LDB Holds Third Annual National Law Student Leadership Conference On February 21-22, the Louis D. Brandeis Center hosted its third annual National Law Student Leadership Conference in Berkeley, California. The conference brought together 26 law student leaders from 14 law schools across the country, and educated these students on topics including civil rights law; international law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict; international anti-Semitism and the European […] Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism Blog
March 14, 2016 Borders and Borderlands: Attempting Again to Delegitmize Israel National borders have been a fundamental issue in the Middle East for a century. The year marks the hundredth anniversary of the secret British-French Sykes-Picot agreement which carved up Middle Eastern parts of Ottoman Empire in anticipation of a Turkish defeat in World War I.[i] As with most Asian and African territories, twentieth century Middle […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
March 14, 2016 “Never Again” Conference Announcement: Jewish Cultural Heritage. Projects, Methods, Inspirations This Warsaw conference may be of interest to practitioners, especially in Europe. This one is from the “‘Never Again’ Association”: Conference: Jewish Cultural Heritage. Projects, Methods, Inspirations From the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association We invite all practitioners, museum professionals, educators, artists, and people working on a Jewish cultural heritage project to participate in the conference. We especially […] Blog Anti-Semitism
March 10, 2016 Call for Papers Our friends at the the International Consortium for Research on Anti-Semitism and Racism (ICRAR) have recently shared with us a Call for Papers for their upcoming Fourth Annual Conference. We thought that this announcement would be of interest to our readers, and would like to share to share more information with you below: The Classification of Humanity: Defining and Dividing […] Blog Anti-Semitism
March 4, 2016 Israel: Not Fiction but Fact Israel exists —no kudos to people who think acknowledging its existence is a major concession. Few question the legitimacy of the ten new countries created in the last 20 years or the tens of countries created in the decades before. That Israel is a Jewish state is bizarrely controversial when 30 countries proclaim Islam as […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
March 3, 2016 BDS and the First Amendment As part of its public relations campaign to lure unwitting American citizens into supporting unlawful activity, the BDS movement, through affiliated groups, has published a number of quasi-legal memoranda that wrongfully portray BDS support as being absolutely protected by the First Amendment. In a recently published analysis, The Lawfare Project effectively exposed the flawed and misleading […] Blog Anti-Zionism Litigation