December 18, 2014 Global Double Standards It’s unacceptable for Sony Studios to allow audiences to see a comedy making fun of North Korea’s Kim Jung Un, but de rigeur for the Taliban to force Pakistani students to see their teacher burned alive. It’s bad taste for ISIS to behead innocents in Iraq and Syria, but not “terrorist” for Hamas to murder […] Anti-Zionism Blog
December 18, 2014 Brandeis Center Castigates Harvard Boycott of SodaStream The Brandeis Center strongly condemns Harvard University’s suspension of SodaStream, the do-it-yourself soda and water machine, from campus dining services. It is no more than a clever ploy by supporters of the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement to hurt the Israeli economy, and in no way furthers the proclaimed human rights concerns of the […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
December 18, 2014 Another Double (or Triple) Standard Pressured by the authorities, Chabad in Australia has snuffed out its 30-year tradition of lighting a 33-foot Menorah in downtown Sydney. Santa Claus may also be put under wraps, but there are no plans to ban the erection of two large Christmas trees. One wonders whether Muslims in Australia will face any such restrictions come […] Anti-Zionism Blog
December 18, 2014 UC’s Moment of Truth The University of California—once home of the legendary Free Speech Movement—has an academic freedom problem. Earlier this year, we witnessed Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor of UC-Berkeley, co-opt the anniversary of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement to emphasize the limits that “civility” might, in his view, properly impose on freedom of speech. Now comes a new threat to […] Anti-Zionism Blog
December 18, 2014 Groups Question University of California Over Union BDS Resolution Several groups, including the Louis D. Brandeis Center, have just sent this letter to the University of California seeking answers about the recent vote of the UAW 2865 in favor of participating in the BDS movement. Kudos to the AMCHA Initiative for coordinating this work: Dear Chancellors Block, Blumenthal, Dirks, Gillman, Katehi, Khosla, Leland, Wilcox and […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
November 16, 2014 The Return of the Malevolent Jew: The Academic Nazification of Israel “What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.” The recasting of Israelis, and, by extension, Jews as Nazis has, in fact, taken place, just as Jankélévitch envisioned. This […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
November 12, 2014 Max Blumenthal Brings the BDS War to Berlin In my recent post on The Nation’s censorship of Eric Alterman – who had dared to mention the LDB Research Paper that documents Max Blumenthal’s anti-Semitism – I noted that the decision to delete Alterman’s reference might be connected to the criticism Max Blumenthal and his fellow anti-Israel activist David Sheen were encountering from some […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
November 10, 2014 Max Blumenthal And The Nation’s Standards Over the weekend, I was alerted to a tweet posted by Max Blumenthal, who announced that “.@thenation decided @eric_alterman’s promotion of far-rightist painting me as anti-Semite ‘did not meet…standards’.” The tweet was accompanied by a screenshot showing an “Editor’s Note” that can be found under one of Eric Alterman’s recent posts at his regular Nation […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
November 7, 2014 The Hamas Book Club Writing shortly after the publication of Max Blumenthal’s anti-Israel screed “Goliath” a year ago, Eric Alterman noted that it would be “no exaggeration to say that this book could have been published by the Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club (if it existed).” As demonstrated at yesterday’s rather lavish “Palestine Book Awards ceremony 2014” in London – honoring, […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
October 31, 2014 A NEW HIGH: 3 CHAPTERS TO BE LAUNCHED IN ONE WEEK! A NEW HIGH: 3 CHAPTERS TO BE LAUNCHED IN ONE WEEK! By: Aviva Vogelstein The LDB law student chapter initiative continues to grow! The Brandeis Center is about to have its most successful law student chapter week yet — 3 chapters are scheduled to launch! On Monday, November 3, LDB attorney Aviva Vogelstein will launch […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog