January 28, 2015 UK Report on Anti-Semitism Highlights Rising Tide and Government’s Strides By Dilia Zwart and Kenny Liebowitz The UK Home Secretary Theresa May recently proclaimed, “We must all redouble our efforts to wipe out anti-Semitism.” Her call to action came during a memorial service in London to remember those killed in the terror attacks in France this month, including four people in a kosher supermarket. May […] Anti-Semitism Blog
January 23, 2015 CFP: “Music as Resistance to Genocide” International Workshop — 26 October 2015, Los Angeles We have received the following CALL FOR PAPERS which may interest our readers: International Workshop “Music as Resistance to Genocide” Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in collaboration with the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 26 October 2015, Los Angeles, CA The Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the USC […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
January 20, 2015 Moses, Mohammed, “Charlie Hebdo”—and Glenn Greenwald Blogger Glenn Greenwald vicariously shares Edward Snowden’s immortality for publishing the NSA leaks that ultimately led the ideologically-confused Snowden to become an intelligence asset of Vlad Putin. Not satisfied with this second-hand claim to fame, Greenwald then took it upon himself to repackage Snowden’s embarrassing revelations about the U.S. intelligence services into a bizarre expose […] Anti-Zionism
January 20, 2015 University of Chicago and Free Speech on Campus Earlier this month, the University of Chicago released a praiseworthy update to its policy on freedom of speech. The policy protects free academic discourse and speakers’ rights to address controversial topics, while also setting forth principles about students’ responsibilities to respect guest speakers and fellow students, and about the University’s need to prevent disruptions to […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog Free Speech and Academic Freedom
January 18, 2015 The French-Jewish Exodus From Scott Ott, “Exodus Chart: Shocking Graph Shows French Jews Fleeing to Israel in Historic Numbers” in PJ Media. Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
January 16, 2015 Brandeis Center Launches Winternship Program with Harvard This month, the Brandeis Center launched a new Harvard Winternship (or winter internship) Program based on a new model for January internships developed by Harvard College and the Harvard Club of Washington. In its inaugural year, LDB welcomes two Harvard students, David Leeds and Dilia Zwart, who will spend their winter break working for the […] Anti-Semitism Blog
January 16, 2015 LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus to Address The StandWithUS Anti-BDS Conference In response to readers’ questions, you may register for the event at this page of the StandWithUs website. Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
January 12, 2015 Brandeis University, Daniel Mael, and Freedom of Speech As the Washington Free Beacon reports, and as others have reported here and here, Brandeis University issued a “No Contact Order” (NCO) to student journalist and outspoken Israel-supporter Daniel Mael last week, which would have restricted his movements on campus. This order, which was immediately revoked this past Friday following an intense media outcry, comes […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
January 9, 2015 UKLI Israel Lawyers’ Trip We are forwarding a message received from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) which may be of interest: UKLFI and the UK Zionist Federation are organising a special legal tour in Israel from 12-16 February. They have an impressive program (or “programme” as they say over there), including visits to the Knesset, the Supreme Court, Ofer Military Court and Tel Aviv Commercial […] Blog
January 9, 2015 The NYT Publishes “All the News That’s Fit to Print” Except That Which Offends a Muslim Family in Brooklyn French President Hollande has just finished his address to the nation on the tragic finale of the new terrorist attacks expressing condolences to the hostage victims at the Parish kosher butcher shop, condemning anti-Semitism, and of course declaring that France’s latest national horror had “nothing to do with Islam.” In fact, there is no evidence […] Anti-Semitism Blog
January 8, 2015 ISGAP Summer Institute The ISGAP Summer Institute at Hertford College, Oxford, for the Development of Curriculum in Critical Antisemitism Studies Summer 2015 The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), an interdisciplinary research center headquartered in New York, is seeking applicants for a two-week intensive workshop-based curriculum development program for professors with full time positions at recognized universities. […] Anti-Semitism Blog
January 8, 2015 Fruits of French-Style Appeasement Last month, France cravenly voted in the UN Security Council for an Arab resolution to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a nation-state without a peace agreement with Israel. Today, an Islamist terror attack on a Parisian satiric magazine killed 10 journalists and two police. It was soon followed by another attack on a synagogue. The […] Blog
January 5, 2015 Islamist Nihilism Kenan Malik in the NYT, January 3, 2015, at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/kenan-malik-the-nihilist-rage-of-radical-islam.html?ref=opinion: “In the past, racists often viewed modernity as the property of the West and regarded the non-Western world as incapable of modernizing. Today, it is radicals who often regard modernity as a Western product, and reject both it and the West as tainted goods. “The […] Blog
January 4, 2015 Mael-Strom at Brandeis For an analysis of and interview with Brandeis student Daniel Mael about the unsuccessful attempt to intimidate him into silence for “hurting the feelings” of another Jewish student by arguing with him behalf of Israel, see Sohrab Ahmari, “How to Fight the Campus Speech Police: Get a Good Lawyer,” in the “Wall Street Journal,” January […] Blog
January 2, 2015 The Brandeis Center Holds Second Annual National Law Student Leadership Conference The Brandeis Center hosted its second National Law Student Leadership Conference in Washington, DC on December 29-30. This event took place as part of the Center’s recent law student and public outreach initiatives. Many of the students in attendance were members of their universities’ chapters of the Brandeis Center. Our law student chapter program fills […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog Litigation
December 21, 2014 “Trans-Tolerance,” Israeli-Style? In the 1950s in the volume, “The Radical Right,” Peter Viereck coined the concept of “trans-tolerance” not to praise but to put down American Christians and Jews who crossed sectarian lines and abstained from religious prejudice in order to raise a common banner for—not against—Senator Joe McCarthy. In other words, you did not have to […] Anti-Zionism
December 21, 2014 Federalism for the Holy Land? The NYT is ending 2014 with an editorial—“The Embattled Dream for Palestine” (December 19)—rehearsing the nightmarish political impasse and putting all the blame, as per usual, on Israel. This time the fall guys are Israeli “one state” rightwingers who want to extinguish the dream of Palestinian peoplehood. No mention that Palestinian “one staters” like Hamas […] Anti-Zionism Blog
December 18, 2014 Global Double Standards It’s unacceptable for Sony Studios to allow audiences to see a comedy making fun of North Korea’s Kim Jung Un, but de rigeur for the Taliban to force Pakistani students to see their teacher burned alive. It’s bad taste for ISIS to behead innocents in Iraq and Syria, but not “terrorist” for Hamas to murder […] Anti-Zionism Blog
December 18, 2014 Brandeis Center Castigates Harvard Boycott of SodaStream The Brandeis Center strongly condemns Harvard University’s suspension of SodaStream, the do-it-yourself soda and water machine, from campus dining services. It is no more than a clever ploy by supporters of the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement to hurt the Israeli economy, and in no way furthers the proclaimed human rights concerns of the […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
December 18, 2014 Another Double (or Triple) Standard Pressured by the authorities, Chabad in Australia has snuffed out its 30-year tradition of lighting a 33-foot Menorah in downtown Sydney. Santa Claus may also be put under wraps, but there are no plans to ban the erection of two large Christmas trees. One wonders whether Muslims in Australia will face any such restrictions come […] Anti-Zionism Blog