November 11, 2013 Come see LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus at UCLA School of Law tomorrow! Anti-Semitism Blog
November 10, 2013 More on Counting Anti-Semites A few months ago in this Blog (in “Europe’s Toxic Anti-Semitism Problem,” July 10), I used a somewhat misleading headline debate between Manfred Gerstenfeld, author of “Demonizing Israel and the Jews,” and Robert Wistrich, in my view the world’s leading authority on the history of anti-Semitism. According to the headlines, Gerstenfeld used polling data to […] Anti-Semitism Blog
November 9, 2013 Anti-Semitism Surges in Europe Earlier today, as we begin the weekend marking the seventieth anniversary of Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938), the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency issued a stunning report detailing the extent of anti-Semitism in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This is the best data that we have seen on contemporary anti-Semitism […] Anti-Semitism Blog
November 6, 2013 Brandeis Center Launches Second Law School Chapter at American University Yesterday afternoon the Brandeis Center has launched their first Law School Chapter in the East Coast, at American University’s Washington College of Law, located in Washington D.C. The law school chapter initiative is the most recent developed program, to involve future leaders who are passionate about justice in the Brandeis Center’s campaign against […] Anti-Semitism Blog
October 31, 2013 Brandeis Center Announces Formation of Law Student Chapters At the Brandeis Center we are thrilled to be launching an important, brand new initiative: law student chapters at select law schools throughout the United States. The new chapters will advance the organization’s mandate to combat campus anti-Semitism through legal means. This news is absolutely exhilarating because there are law students throughout the United States […] Anti-Semitism Blog
October 30, 2013 “Don’t Know Much About History”: Implications for Human Rights? Juxtapose two stories: • At the University of the West Indies, in Cave Hill, Barbados, African drumming, a history lecture, and a song with the chorus, “We cry for the ancestors!” were featured at a ceremony unveiling a monument inscribed with 295 names of slaves who once lived on the plantation where the university now […] Blog
October 30, 2013 Brandeis Center’s Newest Short Video The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law is excited to announce the creation of a new short film called The Louis D. Brandeis Center: For Human Rights Under Law. Produced and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Gloria Greenfield, and edited by two-time Emmy Award winner Raoul Rosenberg, the film highlights the mission of […] Blog
October 19, 2013 Woody Allen May Be Seeing the Light About Israel—Sort Of Woody Allen’s recent remarks about bigoted critics of Israel re-raise the perennial question about the Jewish roots to his serio-comic gift. Born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in the Bronx in 1935, Allen was the son of Austrian and Russian-Jewish immigrants. His Orthodox family spoke German and a well as Yiddish at home, and while growing up […] Anti-Semitism Blog
October 14, 2013 Israel and Africa: Bridging Troubled Waters Israelis were not surprised by last month’s terrorist attack by Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, killing 67 people. They had been on alert against such dangers since two attacks on Israeli targets in Mombasa in 2002. Since the Arab the downfall of Libya’s Qaddafi, East Africa especially has been awash in new terrorist recruits […] Blog
October 14, 2013 High Academic Quality Protects Students’ Freedom to Learn The efforts of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) to protect academic freedom intersect with and draw strength from our efforts to maintain high academic quality on America’s college campuses. These issues are closely related, and our Free to Teach, Free to Learn guide highlights the potential challenges universities and their trustees face […] Campus Administrators
October 11, 2013 Pope Francis: Let anti-Semitism be banished from every heart This morning, Pope Francis met with members of Rome’s Jewish community to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the Nazi deportation of Rome’s Jews. According to Radio Vatican, the pope took the occasion to express his feelings of closeness to the Jewish people. In his remarks, Pope Francis also issued a ringing denunciation of anti-Semitism: “We […] Anti-Semitism Blog
October 10, 2013 Kenneth Marcus Speaking at American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists event The President of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law, Kenneth L. Marcus will be presenting in an upcoming special luncheon hosted by the New York area chapter of the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (AAJLJ). During this luncheon, Marcus will cover many of the topics that the Brandeis Center focuses on. […] Anti-Semitism Blog
October 9, 2013 Happy Dussehra The Louis D. Brandeis Center wishes a very happy Dussehra (Dasara) to those who celebrate this festival. As we mark this joyous occasion, which commemorates the victory of good over evil, we thank those in the Indian community who have joined hands with us in our battles against campus anti-Semitism and in favor of religious […] Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
October 3, 2013 America’s Current “Weimar Moment” is Greatly Exaggerated The current lamentable federal government shutdown—for which I think there is enough blame to go around—has precipitated a flurry of “not me but thee is the Nazi” accusations from both Ted Cruz’s and Harry Reid’s sides of the Congressional aisle. Such back-and-forth character assassination, alas, has become recurrent in recent national American politics, starting in […] Blog
September 28, 2013 The Swastika as a Symbol of Happiness The Polish criminal code, similarly to criminal codes in other European countries, prohibits incitement to racial hatred; public insult due to race, national, ethnic or religious origin; as well as public propagating of National Socialist and Fascist systems. Those who oppose the penalisation of words – including racist and xenophobic words – will most probably […] Anti-Semitism Blog
September 27, 2013 Call for Papers: Budapest Conference on “Narratives of Violence” This announcement from our colleagues at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and the International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism (ICRAR) will be of interest to our anti-Semitism scholars: A major international conference on Narratives of Violence, conceived by the International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism (ICRAR), of which […] Anti-Semitism Blog
September 19, 2013 UC Berkeley Student Assesses Campus Anti-Semitism UC Berkeley freshman Elijah Z. Granet has written an interesting account of anti-Semitism that he has faced there and on Facebook. Granet’s op ed in The Daily Californian relates his own personal experience with anti-Semitism before he even set his foot on UC Berkeley’s ground. He elaborates on the U.S. Department of Education Office […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
September 19, 2013 Anti-Semitic Group Hate Speech Permeates Facebook Very recently, Facebook Inc. has come under scrutiny for allowing certain hate groups against the Jewish community to stay online, while blocking other hate groups that target other minority communities. Within Facebook’s public, community standards, the company explicitly prohibits the “attack of others based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, […] Anti-Semitism Blog
September 12, 2013 WMDS, Barack Obama, and Hegel’s “The Cunning of History” According to Hegel, Reason realizes itself in History through the action of “great men.” However, Hegel argues that Reason does not act in a manner that seems “reasonable” on the surface. Men acting—as Freud would say unconsciously of ultimate results—bring Reason’s purposes to fruition. My starting point here is the assumption that members of the […] Blog
September 12, 2013 Government-Created Anti-Semitism (Part 3) In a recent article written for The Tablet, Kenneth R. Timmerman said that when he traveled to Gaza, Amman, and Damascus in 1994, he kept asking Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood leaders whether they thought the Jews had a plan to dominate the world. Timmerman recounted the enthusiastic answer one Hamas leader: “Yes, indeed. I […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
September 11, 2013 Government-Created Anti-Semitism (Part 2) False accusations against Jews can lead to horrific ends, but so can false charges of anti-Semitism. The problem is that charges of anti-Semitism are almost always met with denial, and it can be difficult to separate legitimate from illegitimate claims. That makes it particularly important to expose false charges when they are uncovered. The importance […] Anti-Semitism Blog