March 25, 2013 The Shame of the Netherlands: A Young Muslim Must Go Into Hiding for Fighting Anti-Semitism Post by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Harold Brackman: Passover. This week, Jews will eat more matzo then we ever thought possible, hear more commentary about the Haggadah and its multiple messages for our time, and sit back in awe and (hopefully) love at the site at of our […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
March 23, 2013 Historian Harold Brackman to Guest Blog on BDS and Other Topics On Thursday, I blogged very briefly about the Simon Wiesenthal’s interesting new report on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. SWC’s report really deserves more attention, so I am pleased to announce that its author, Dr. Harold Brackman, has agreed to join us as a guest blogger over the next couple of weeks. Dr. Brackman will […] Anti-Semitism Blog
March 23, 2013 Legal Scholar Lesley Klaff to Join Brandeis Blog We’re delighted to welcome English legal scholar Lesley Klaff to the Louis D. Brandeis Center Blog. Klaff, who is also a member of the Louis D. Brandeis Center’s Legal Advisory Board, will give an international perspective to the Blog, which thus far has featured bloggers from the United States and Canada. Klaff’s expertise ranges from legal […] Anti-Semitism Blog
March 22, 2013 If you can’t Recognize Hate Speech, the sunlight can’t penetrate This week the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), an Australian Charity which I have the privilege of leading as its CEO, released my major new report into Hate Speech on Facebook. OHPI seeks to facilitate a change in online culture so that hate in all its forms becomes as socially unacceptable online as it is in “real […] Anti-Semitism Blog
March 21, 2013 Autonomous Histories The Kantor Center at Tel Aviv University is circulating a very interesting Call for Papers on “Autonomous Histories and Studies of the Holocaust,” which the Center is co-convening with four other institutions. (LDB Advisor Dina Porat heads the Kantor Center.) The impetus for the conference is the perception that Holocaust studies have developed within two […] Anti-Semitism Blog
March 21, 2013 Simon Wiesenthal Center Issues New BDS Report The Simon Wiesenthal Center has just issued a new report on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, authored by Dr. Harold Brackman, “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel: An Anti-Semitic, Anti-Peace Poison Pill.” The beautifully produced report argues that the “essence” of the BDS movement can be understood in terms of Natan Sharansky’s famous “three […] Anti-Semitism Blog
March 17, 2013 Welcome New Bloggers The Louis D. Brandeis Center Blog welcomes two guest bloggers and two new regular bloggers this week: Alyza Lewin, Andre Oboler, Richard Cravatts, and Danit Sibovits. All four reflect the Brandeis Center’s commitment to combatting global and campus anti-Semitism, while protecting free speech and academic freedom, and promoting justice for all people. Anti-Semitism Blog
March 15, 2013 The Apartheid Slur: An Intellectual Affront and Obstacle to Peace Spring is here. And just as it portends the melting of snow and the budding of flowers, on campuses worldwide for the last few years spring has also brought a flurry of absurd anti-Israel activities inaccurately comparing Israel to the old South Africa with its reprehensible racist apartheid regime. We need to fight this modern […] Anti-Semitism Blog
March 14, 2013 The Evil Overlap: Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism In my first Blog post, I described Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s heroic fight against the UN’s infamous Zionism is racism resolution in 1975 – and how Americans responded, joining a chorus of righteous indignation. This post, with material directly excerpted from Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism, published by Oxford University Press, 2013, all rights reserved, […] Anti-Semitism Blog
March 13, 2013 Moynihan’s Moment: An All American Hero Fighting Anti-Semitism Whoever you are, wherever you stand politically, we are all affected by living in an age when Israel is traumatized – and anyone who is Jewish or cares about the Jewish state is traumatized, to one extent or another. You can see this trauma in the defensiveness of Israel’s defenders and the viciousness of Israel’s […] Anti-Semitism Blog