August 7, 2013 Brandeis Center Congratulates Catherine Lhamon on Confirmation as OCR Chief Today, the Brandeis Center congratulated Catherine Lhamon on being confirmed as the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. The U.S. Senate confirmed Ms. Lhamon after President Obama nominated her earlier this year. Ms. Lhamon has a very extensive background in civil rights. Most recently, she served as the Director of […] Blog
August 5, 2013 Brandeis Center Appoints Todd Braunstein to Legal Advisory Board Today, the Brandeis Center announced the appointment of Todd F. Braunstein to the Brandeis Center’s Legal Advisory Board. As a member of the board, Braunstein will advise the Center regarding legal aspects of the Center’s fight against campus anti-Semitism. A former federal prosecutor, Braunstein has years of experience in all phases of the investigative process, […] Blog
August 2, 2013 Joel Siegal Explains Anti-Bullying Litigation LDB Legal Advisor and San Francisco civil rights litigator Joel Siegal has posted an informative article on his blog which discusses the use of courts to eliminate bullying in the school. Siegal is counsel to Jessica Felber in her campus anti-Semitism case against the University of California at Berkeley. With attorney Neal Sher, he filed a […] Anti-Semitism Blog
August 2, 2013 Germany Should Act Against Those Who Invoke “Free Speech” to Destroy Its Still-Fragile Democracy The recent “New York Times’” headline—“Wiesenthal Center Calls for Closing of German Magazine It Says Glorifies Nazism”—reflects what may an ominous divergence in German and American attitudes toward Nazism. As recently as the 1960’s when “Hogan’s Heroes” was a hit television sitcom, “comic Nazis”—inept and even innocuous—were in vogue. The reason may have been that […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 31, 2013 “Zionist Entity” Enters the Blogosphere A smart new blog on Israel, anti-Semitism and the Middle East, provocatively entitled the “Zionist Entity,” has just quietly been launched. Although it has not yet announced itself in any formal way, its first entries are already garnering considerable buzz internationally for its fresh, clever, irreverent style and wit. We are pleased to see that […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 29, 2013 Who’s Right About the European Extreme Right? Historian James Mayfield offers a provocative, contrarian view of Europe’s extreme Right in “Explaining the Rapid Rise of the Xenophobic Right in Contemporary Europe” in the journal, “GeoCurrents” (July 22). It’s not that he likes the Right. It’s that he questions the popular view that right-wing European extremism is a uniform, continent-wide phenomenon that can […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 29, 2013 Brandeis Center Call for Volunteer Work The Brandeis Center is actively seeking a volunteer to create, and on occasion update, an informative Wikipedia article about the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. The article, of course, must be written in accordance with Wikipedia’s rules, which require complete independence and neutrality. As such, the Brandeis Center feels it best […] Blog
July 25, 2013 IAJLJ Seeks Lawyer Signatures for European Union Petition The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists is circulating this lawyers’ letter, written by Ambassador Alan Baker, which calls upon the European Union to revoke its recent directive against Israeli settlements. The lawyers’ letter will be sent to EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton. If you are an attorney and would like to sign, the […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 25, 2013 SPME Fellowships Available Our friends at Scholars for Peace in the Middle East are announcing fellowships to enable junior scholars to deliver papers at academic conferences. In addition to providing useful information on Israel and the Middle East, SPME has also historically been interested in campus anti-Semitism and academic freedom. These issues are, of course, central to our […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 23, 2013 Coming Soon: August Edition of the Brandeis Brief The Louis D. Brandeis Center would like to announce to Brandeis Blog readers that the August edition of the Brandeis Brief is coming soon. Each edition of the Brandeis Brief features a compilation of the month’s best blog entries, along with detailed and up to date information regarding the Brandeis Center’s campaign against campus […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 22, 2013 There Should Be No Age Limit on Prosecution of “Most Wanted” War Criminals When the Simon Wiesenthal Center was founded in 1977, Dean Rabbi Marvin Hier promised Simon Wiesenthal that bringing Holocaust perpetrators to justice would be the number one priority. The famed Nazi hunter died in 2005, but there was no expiration date on that promise to him—nor should that be except for the death or incapacity […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 22, 2013 Kantor Center Issues May/June Newsletter on Anti-Semitism and Racism The Kantor Center for the Study of European Jewry at Tel Aviv University has just released their May-June 2013 newsletter, on “Antisemitism and Racism,” which can be found here. As usual, the Kantor Center’s newsletter is a very useful compendium of research and information regarding global anti-Semitism. Highlights from the Kantor Center’s newsletter can be […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 22, 2013 Job Opportunity at ISGAP Charles Asher Small, a member of LDB’s Board of Academic Advisors, is hiring a Chief of Staff for his organization, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). This looks like an interesting opportunity for the right candidate. ISGAP | The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy – Announcement Dear […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 21, 2013 European Shame When three years ago the former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, decided to expel a few thousands of European Union citizens of Roma origin from the French territory (for a small financial compensation), the EU Commission itself intervened and most of the media did not hide their outrage. French public opinion, however, was divided – […] Litigation
July 18, 2013 Brandeis Center Welcomes Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska–Grabias to the Brandeis Blog Team The Louis D. Brandeis Center has recently had the pleasure of adding yet another impressive figure to the center’s long list of blog contributors. Polish legal scholar Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska–Grabias will now be a regular contributor to the Brandeis Center blog. Dr. Gliszczyńska-Grabias joins a team of impressive legal and historical minds who regularly contribute to […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 18, 2013 Anti-Semitism Returns to the House of Commons Less than six months after the Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, David Ward, was accused of anti-Semitism for the equating the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews with “the Jews” treatment of the Palestinians, yet another Liberal Democrat MP, Sir Bob Russell, has equated the victims of the Holocaust with the ‘plight of the Palestinians’ […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 16, 2013 New Book Claims KGB Used Anti-Semitism Against America Did the KGB use anti-Semitism as a cold war strategy to isolate the United States? A new book suggests they did. According to a new book by a high-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence officer who defected to the West, the KGB deliberately fomented anti-Semitism in Muslim countries in order to turn them against the United States. Several […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 15, 2013 Brandeis Center Congratulates New Hillel President and CEO Eric Fingerhut On Sunday evening, the Board of Directors of Hillel unanimously approved Eric Fingerhut as the next President and CEO of the organization, replacing Wayne Firestone, who stepped down last month. Fingerhut, a former U.S. Congressman from Ohio, will help steer the central Hillel organization, strategizing for the movement and raising funds for the 550 campus […] Blog
July 12, 2013 The Brandeis Center Welcomes its 4000th Facebook “Like” The Louis Brandeis Center is pleased today to be “liked” by its 4000th fan on Facebook. (Thank you, Miguel Lopez.) As we celebrate this milestone, it is a good time to take stock of our vibrant Facebook fan community, which has enjoyed a weekly total reach often rising into the tens of thousands. Over the […] Blog
July 10, 2013 Europe’s Toxic Anti-Semitism Problem Manfred Gerstenfeld, author the new book, “Demonizing Israel and the Jews,” and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Robert Wistrich, probably the world’s leading authority on the history of anti-Semitism, are like diagnosticians who agree on the grim prognosis for European Jewry, but disagree on the probable cause of death. Gerstenfeld has attracted a headline in […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 4, 2013 Jewish NGOs Add Their Voices Against the World’s Last Totalitarian Gulag According to North Korean defectors, President Kim Jong-un recently “issued an order for the Third Reich to be studied in depth” for “practical applications be drawn from it.” Another source reports him as saying that North Korea’s secret police should be restructured—“similar to the Gestapo.” Whether or not the twenty-something tyrant is really passing out […] Blog