March 21, 2016 Maintaining Columbia’s Ties to Israel: A Letter Opposing Divestment In response to a recent petition signed by 69 members of the Columbia faculty calling on the university to divest from companies that do business in Israel, David M. Schizer, Dean Emeritus and the Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law and Economics at Columbia Law School, created the following letter opposing divestment. The letter, which […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
March 17, 2016 Alabama and Georgia pass new Anti-BDS Measures More and more state legislatures are passing measures to combat the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The BDS movement seeks to delegitimize the State of Israel, and BDS campaigns on campus often lead to increased incidents of anti-Semitism. In mid-February, Alabama passed a bill condemning the BDS movement, becoming the fifth state […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
March 15, 2016 LDB Holds Third Annual National Law Student Leadership Conference On February 21-22, the Louis D. Brandeis Center hosted its third annual National Law Student Leadership Conference in Berkeley, California. The conference brought together 26 law student leaders from 14 law schools across the country, and educated these students on topics including civil rights law; international law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict; international anti-Semitism and the European […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
March 14, 2016 Borders and Borderlands: Attempting Again to Delegitmize Israel National borders have been a fundamental issue in the Middle East for a century. The year marks the hundredth anniversary of the secret British-French Sykes-Picot agreement which carved up Middle Eastern parts of Ottoman Empire in anticipation of a Turkish defeat in World War I.[i] As with most Asian and African territories, twentieth century Middle […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
March 14, 2016 “Never Again” Conference Announcement: Jewish Cultural Heritage. Projects, Methods, Inspirations This Warsaw conference may be of interest to practitioners, especially in Europe. This one is from the “‘Never Again’ Association”: Conference: Jewish Cultural Heritage. Projects, Methods, Inspirations From the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association We invite all practitioners, museum professionals, educators, artists, and people working on a Jewish cultural heritage project to participate in the conference. We especially […] Anti-Semitism Blog
March 10, 2016 Call for Papers Our friends at the the International Consortium for Research on Anti-Semitism and Racism (ICRAR) have recently shared with us a Call for Papers for their upcoming Fourth Annual Conference. We thought that this announcement would be of interest to our readers, and would like to share to share more information with you below: The Classification of Humanity: Defining and Dividing […] Anti-Semitism Blog
March 4, 2016 Israel: Not Fiction but Fact Israel exists —no kudos to people who think acknowledging its existence is a major concession. Few question the legitimacy of the ten new countries created in the last 20 years or the tens of countries created in the decades before. That Israel is a Jewish state is bizarrely controversial when 30 countries proclaim Islam as […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
February 25, 2016 The Institute for Law and Policy at Hebrew University The Institute for Law and Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law has recently announced their Summer Program for international Students and Attorneys. The program, to take place during June 27-July 14, 2016, is co-sponsored by the Brandeis Center along with several other groups such as StandWithUs and the Jewish Federations of North America. Fulltext […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog Litigation
February 24, 2016 Counter-BDS Movement Has a Good Month Last week the British government issued guidance banning local government and public sector Boycott Divestment and Sanction (BDS) actions toward any country not blacklisted by the Foreign Office. The Canadian Parliament passed a motion calling on the Canadian government to “condemn any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
February 17, 2016 Inaugural Cornell LDB Trip to Israel By Kate Sapirstein It was probably one of the stranger moments in my life, sitting on a plane to Israel. Well, that part was not so strange, I’d been several times before, but the kicker was that I was leading a Cornell Law School trip to Israel, the Jewish homeland, and almost everyone on the […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog