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
July 2, 2013 Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Ceremony to be Broadcast in English Our friends at Yad Vashem are announcing this English language broadcast of the 2013 Erev Yom HaShoah (Holocaust memorial) service: The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) network http://nrb.org/ in partnership with the Christian Friends of Yad Vashem http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/friends/christian/index.asp will for the first time ever be broadcasting the Erev Yom HaShoah (Eve of the Holocaust Memorial Day) state ceremony from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. The event […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 2, 2013 Today’s German Question Mark Winston Churchill famously quipped of Russia: “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Twenty-first century Germany is, instead, a question mark—especially regarding its relationship to the present and future of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish hatreds. Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper cites a new cartoon (belatedly apologized for) in Germany’s largest […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 1, 2013 Manfred Gerstenfeld Interviews Kenneth L. Marcus on Campus Anti-Semitism (German) Our German-reading friends will be interested to know that Manfred Gerstenfeld’s recent interview with LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus is now available here online in German. In this interview, Marcus discusses the application of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to fight anti-Semitism in American higher education. Anti-Semitism Blog
June 28, 2013 Seminar: The UCU, Antisemitism and the Boycott Campaigns Against Israel The Louis D. Brandeis Center was recently made aware of an upcoming conference which readers may find interesting. One of the main topics of discussion will be the recent Fraser v. UCU court case, a very important case which several contributors to the Brandeis Center’s blog have analyzed throughout the past few weeks. Thu 11 […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 27, 2013 Kenneth L. Marcus on Campus Anti-Semitism LDB President Kenneth Marcus recently went on The Edwin Black Show to discuss the anti-Israeli de-legitimization, or BDS (boycott, divest, and sanction) movement. Mr. Marcus, in particular, was able to address what is happening on college campuses in regards to this BDS movement. According to Mr. Marcus, this problem is something repeatedly presenting itself on America’s college campuses […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 25, 2013 U.S. Supreme Court Reaches Encouraging Decision in Fisher Yesterday, June 24, 2013, the United States Supreme Court released its decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin where it considered the University’s use of race in undergraduate admissions decisions. In an encouraging decision the Court held, by a 7-1 majority, that “because the Fifth Circuit did not hold the University to the […] Blog
June 24, 2013 Speech from Tammi Rossman-Benjamin will Highlight Campus Anti-Semitism On June 30th, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin will deliver a talk at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California. Entitled “Campus and the New Anti-Semitism”, the talk will focus on “the hostile, anti-Israel climate which university students across the country are facing and the challenges of addressing campus anti-Semitism.” Rossman-Benjamin, a Brandeis Center […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 18, 2013 The Massive Blind Spot of LGBT Activists Who See Mideast Through BDS Lenses Of course, degrees of acceptance for gays are relative, and the LGBT community in Israel has complaints. A same-sex civil unions bill hasn’t yet passed the Knesset. Still—compared to many other places—the Jewish state would seem to be paradise. What’s the worst place on earth for gays? Probably Uganda, but—with the exception of Morocco and […] Blog
June 18, 2013 “Boycotts- Past and Present” London Conference Wednesday, June 19, marks the beginning of a global conference at the International Consortium for Research on Anti-Semitism and Racism, hosted by the Pears Institute for the study of Anti-Semitism at Birkbeck College, University of London. The Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism was initiated in November of 2010 under the guiding principle that […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 17, 2013 Israel Bashing: Gore Vidal’s Legacy Lives On The BDS (Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions) Movement’s current, partly successful efforts in the UK, the U.S., and Canada to coopt LGBT activists to undermine tolerant Israel’s right to exist while casting a blind eye to the oppression of gays in the Arab and Muslim world does not come out of thin air. Gore Vidal, who died almost a […] Anti-Semitism Blog
June 14, 2013 The Holocaust and Contemporary Anti-Semitism in the UK I have always been curious about why and how the Holocaust has spawned new anti-Semitic tropes, such as Holocaust denial. Anthony Julius famously wrote in Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England that, “[T]he Holocaust should have altogether put paid to anti-Semitism. It should have rebutted once and for all the principal […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 14, 2013 Campus Anti-Semitism Fact Sheet Invaluable to Jewish Students The Brandeis Center has just released an important new resource for Jewish American college students, The Louis D. Brandeis Center’s Short Guide to the Law Against Campus Anti-Semitism. The Short Guide is a Fact Sheet on Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Over 40% of Jewish American college students have admitted to experiencing […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 12, 2013 The Sad Reality of Anti-Sikh Discrimination in a Post-9/11 World The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law has recently commended an FBI Advisory Policy Board recommendation that the agency track hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus, and Arab Americans – just as the Brandeis Center had previously urged in testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The Brandeis Center, which is primarily focused […] Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
June 10, 2013 Top Ten Surprises About Campus Anti-Semitism Some people might react with skepticism when told that when examining college campuses in the United States, there has been a noticeable resurgence of anti-Semitic incidents, but the trend exists regardless. The Brandeis Center has compiled this list of facts that may surprise some about campus anti-Semitism. 1. High Volume of Incidents in the Last […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog