June 1, 2015 BDS Defeated at Washington Supreme Court In a major setback to the BDS campaign, the Washington State Supreme court reversed a lower court’s ruling yesterday and struck down the state’s anti-SLAPP statute as unconstitutional. The Olympia Food Co-op, based in Olympia, Washington, provides “wholesome foods and other goods and services . . . through a locally oriented, collectively managed, not-for-profit cooperative […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog Litigation
May 19, 2015 At Bowdoin College, BDS Defeated Earlier this month, in glorious fashion, students at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine voted to defeat the notorious BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement against Israel. According to a piece in Legal Insurrection by Cornell law professor William A. Jacobson, the referendum, which called for the economic, cultural, and academic boycotts of Israel, was rejected […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
May 15, 2015 Tennessee first, then Indiana condemn BDS as anti-Semitic movement For the first time in the U.S., a state legislature condemned the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The Tennessee General Assembly approved the resolution overwhelmingly, declaring that BDS is “one of the main vehicles for spreading anti-Semitism and advocating the elimination of the Jewish state”. The resolution condemns similarly the BDS activities […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
May 7, 2015 LDB and Others Write Napolitano about Anti-Israeli class at UC Riverside The Louis D. Brandeis Center joins the AMCHA initiative and 25 other groups in writing a letter to University of California President Napolitano and Provost Dorr about an anti-Israeli class taught at UC Riverside by a SJP member Dear President Napolitano and Provost Dorr, Last Fall, after several of our organizations wrote to you expressing our […] Anti-Zionism Blog
May 4, 2015 Anti-Zionism Week at UC Irvine The Louis D. Brandeis Center joins the AMCHA Initiative and twenty other groups in writing a letter to UCI Chancellor and Vice Chancellor about the “Anti-Zionist Week 2015” at UC Irvine. May 1, 2015 UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman UCI Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Thomas Parham Dear Chancellor Gillman and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Parham: […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
April 28, 2015 LDB and Decalogue Join Forces to Train Illinois Law Students This article about LDB’s National Law Student Leadership Conference was published in the Spring 2015 Edition of the “Decalogue Tablet,” a publication of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers. The Decalogue Society is a Chicago-based organization founded in 1934 to promote justice in society and to advance and improve the law, administration of justice and legal […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
April 26, 2015 Kantor Center Reports on Surging Global Anti-Semitism The 2014 Kantor Center annual report highlights a 38% worldwide increase in violent anti-Semitic incidents compared to 2013. The Kantor Center, based at Tel Aviv University, specializes in contemporary European Jewry and publishes an annual detailed report on anti-Semitism worldwide. According to this data, 2014 is the second worst year for anti-Semitism in the last […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
April 23, 2015 After condemning anti-Semitism, UCSB Student Senate rejects BDS resolution On April 15th, the University of California – Santa Barbara (UCSB) Student Senate rejected a BDS resolution by a short majority, with 13 no, 12 yes and one abstention. The resolution was calling UCSB to divest from Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Caterpillar, and Hewlett Packard. This resolution comes just two weeks after the groundbreaking […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
April 22, 2015 3 New LDB Chapters Open in the Windy City The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law’s (LDB) Law Student Chapter Initiative, started last year, continues to expand! Last week, LDB opened three new law student chapters in Chicago – at the University of Chicago, DePaul University, and Chicago-Kent College of Law. “The recent rise in anti-Semitism on university campuses is undeniable […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog Litigation
April 22, 2015 Anti-Semitism at Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro Northwestern University 633 Clark Street Evanston, IL 60208-1100 Dear President Schapiro, We are 23 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people who are very concerned about the safety and well-being of Jewish students at Northwestern University. We are troubled by reports of two separate incidents of antisemitic graffiti discovered […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog