March 18, 2022 Anti-Israel Hate Week ‘22 turbocharged by recent anti-Israel events Beginning at the University of Toronto in 2005, the Anti-Israel Hate Week, also deceitfully known as “Israel Apartheid Week,” is an annual event held in March and April on campuses across 55 countries. In the United States, this hateful event will be held this year from March 21 to March 28. It is an anti-Israel […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
March 7, 2022 IHRA Working Definition of Anti-Semitism Remains Strong in the Face of Criticism In recent webinar lectures with Indiana University and the United Kingdom Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) Charitable Trust, Irwin Cotler, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada – and current LDB Academic Advisory Board member – discussed his beliefs of the importance of International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of anti-Semitism. “The IHRA […] Anti-Semitism Blog
February 23, 2022 Professor Abraham Bell Challenges Amnesty International UK Report That Claims Israel is an “Apartheid” State On February 3, the UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI) Charitable Trust hosted a webinar titled “Amnesty International’s Latest Attack on Israel.” Professor Abraham Bell explained that Amnesty International UK’s recent report alleging Israel is responsible for apartheid has been dismissed outright by the Biden administration and others as “absurd”. He identified flaws in the report’s […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
February 14, 2022 LDB submits comments to proposed Dept. of Education regulations On Friday, February 11, 2022, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (“LDB”) submitted comments in response to the proposed regulations governing Civil Rights Data Collection (“CRDC”) issued by the Department of Education (“ED”). Read the submission here: Brandeis Center Comments on CRDC Blog
February 11, 2022 Members of Congress Send Letter to Office For Civil Rights Urging Action on Campus anti-Semitism On February 4, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and a group of 39 bipartisan Members of Congress sent a letter to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), urging it to take concrete steps to support Jewish students and address the rising threat of anti-Semitism on campus. Members asked the Department of […] Anti-Semitism Blog
February 7, 2022 Call for Papers for Conference on “21st Century Antisemitism” The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism has issued a call for papers and panels for its upcoming conference on “21st Century Antisemitism: A Global Conference with a UK Focus.” The conference will be held at Queen Mary, University of London, Lincoln’s Inn Fields on September 11-13, 2022. The deadline to submit panel […] Blog
December 7, 2021 Our laws cannot allow public schools to shield sexual predators | Opinion (The Hill) The Hill December 6, 2021 by Kenneth L. Marcus and Kimberly M. Richey, Opinion Contributors — The Biden administration recently announced its new proposed Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), providing numerous revisions to the most authoritative repository of information on civil rights in public schools. Predictably, the Biden proposal seeks new data on coronavirus responses and LGBTQ issues, including the addition […] Blog
November 1, 2021 The Worst Place for a Jew to Be, by Diane B. Kunz The Worst Place for a Jew to Be What is the worst place to be a Jew in America in 2021? According to Professor Günther Jikeli of Indiana University, it is on a college campus. His statement is substantiated by three new surveys of American college students and other Jewish Americans, all reported within the […] Blog
October 4, 2021 LDB Welcomes First Scholar-in-Residence The Louis D. Brandeis Center Welcomes Diane Kunz as Scholar-in-Residence Washington, D.C., October 1, 2021: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is pleased to announce the inaugural appointment of Diane Kunz to the newly created role of Scholar-in-Residence. Dr. Kunz is a distinguished historian and legal scholar who most recently served as Senior […] Blog
September 30, 2021 Professor Orde Kittrie debunks the charge that Israel is an “apartheid” nation and sounds the alarm on a newly established UN Commission On September 14, the UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI) Charitable Trust hosted a webinar titled “The Accusation of Israel as an Apartheid State,” featuring a presentation by Arizona State University Law Professor Orde Kittrie on the mandate of the new United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) created by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Among […] Anti-Zionism Blog
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 The International Legal Forum Discusses Ancient Jew-Hatred in Modern Times Last week, Brandeis Center President Alyza Lewin appeared on an expert panel hosted by the International Legal Forum (ILF) to speak on the modern-day mutations of anti-Semitism in a webinar entitled “Ancient Hatred Modern Times.” Moderated by ILF lawyer Russell Shalev, the event explored present-day forms of anti-Semitism as “society’s oldest… but least understood hatred.” […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 30, 2021 LDB Summer Speaker Series featured Professor Oren Gross On June 23, as part of its Summer Speaker Series, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) hosted Professor Oren Gross, the Irving Younger Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and LDB Academic Advisory Board member. Professor Gross explained his recent resignation from the University’s Center for […] Blog