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
June 7, 2013 The Truth About FDR and the Jews Seventy years ago last week, President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sat down for lunch at the White House. As they ate, they reviewed the war effort and exchanged thoughts on their plans for the postwar era. At one point the conversation touched upon the nettlesome question of the Jews. The mass murder […] Blog
June 5, 2013 Franklin Roosevelt, Founder of Israel ? Move over, Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion, and Menachem Begin: it turns out that the man most responsible for the founding of Israel was, in fact, Franklin D. Roosevelt. This astonishing claim is being circulated by FDR partisans in a new effort to rescue their hero’s reputation in the Jewish world. The depiction of Roosevelt as […] Anti-Zionism Blog
June 3, 2013 Today’s French Blend of Hypocrisy, Anti-Semitism, and Jihad Updates Moliere’s “Tartuffe” In Moliere’s play, religious huckster Tartuffe almost undoes credulous Orgon (saved only by the King’s miraculous intervention). At today’s University of La Rochelle, a new play has been produced in which the hypocritical manipulation of the gullible—this time in the service of anti-Semitism—is the work not of an evil character but of the playwright and […] Blog
June 2, 2013 When Brandeis Was “Ashamed” of America He may have been one of his generation’s most enthusiastic exponents of American patriotism, and in many ways he was the very symbol of Jewish pride in the United States, but eighty years ago this month, Justice Louis D. Brandeis bluntly told Secretary of State Cordell Hull that he was “ashamed” of his country. Brandeis’s […] Blog
May 31, 2013 Welcome Rafael Medoff The Brandeis Center Blog is pleased to welcome Dr. Rafael Medoff as our next guest blogger. Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which focuses on America’s response to the Holocaust. A prolific author, Medoff has written numerous books and articles. His most recent book is FDR and […] Anti-Semitism Blog
May 26, 2013 Should a Pro-Israel Student Organization Be Required to Admit People Who Oppose the Existence of the State of Israel? According to a Troubling Campus Trend, They Should For the final post of my oddly 21-day “week” of guest posting for the Brandeis Center blog, I want to focus on a troubling trend on college campuses which prevents belief-based organizations from excluding people hostile to their core beliefs. I talk about this trend in detail and at length in my book, and for now, […] Anti-Zionism Blog
May 26, 2013 Sweden’s Reckoning The UK and U.S. Embassy have cautioned their nationals about visiting Stockholm and environs because of a of week of riots in ostensibly enlightened Sweden by predominantly Muslim immigrants and their children, attributed alternatively to “police brutality” or bad social conditions. In 2010, the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued its own “travel advisory” cautioning Jewish travelers […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog