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 […] Blog Anti-Semitism
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 […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
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 […] Blog Anti-Semitism
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 […] Blog Anti-Semitism
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 […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
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’ […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
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 […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
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 […] Blog Anti-Semitism
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 […] Blog Anti-Semitism