January 1, 1970 Free Speech Does Not Include Violence Re-posted from Camera on Campus. Anti-Israel demonstration in New York. (Tablet Magazine). As the US Air Force C-17 left Afghan airspace, I allowed myself to relax for a brief moment. My year-long tour in Kabul, Afghanistan was over. Returning home, I thought of those fellow soldiers, including my Command Sergeant Major, who had not been […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
January 1, 1970 Supreme Court Addresses Social Media Liability for Terrorist Content The Louis D. Brandeis Center recently signed a statement calling on Twitter to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism to better enable it to identify and remove anti-Semitic content on its platform. Last week, extremist Internet content made it to the U.S. Supreme Court’s docket. The court heard oral arguments in the […] Blog
January 1, 1970 Seminar: The UCU, Antisemitism and the Boycott Campaigns Against Israel Thu 11 Jul 2013 The University and College Union (UCU) has passed anti-Zionist resolutions since 2005 and Jewish members have complained about antisemitic tendencies within the union. In 2012 Ronnie Fraser brought a case against the UCU complaining of institutional antisemitism in violation of the Equality Act. However, the employment tribunal handling the case ruled […] Blog
January 1, 1970 University of Michigan Letter Update The University of Michigan has been working to address several discriminatory incidents against Jewish students at the University of Michigan, including Professor John Cheney-Lippold’s refusal to write a letter of recommendation for a student to study abroad in Israel, a graduate student teaching assistant’s refusal to write a letter of recommendation for the same reason, […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
January 1, 1970 UC Berkeley Student Assesses Campus Anti-Semitism 72 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”,”serif”;} UC Berkeley freshman Elijah Z. Granet has written an interesting account of anti-Semitism that he has faced there and on Facebook. Granet’s op […] Blog
January 1, 1970 Expanding Law Student Initiative The Brandeis Center’s law student work continues to expand. Since October, the Brandeis Center has launched their Legal JIGSAW Initiative and opened two new LDB law student chapters. Through both JIGSAW and the LDB law student chapters, LDB attorneys are continuously working to provide law students with opportunities to “enhance their law school experience” and […] Blog
January 1, 1970 March’s Brandeis Brief is Here! Brandeis Brief: March 2021 More good news in another Brandeis Center case: Students for Justice in Palestine backed down at Tufts University after the Brandeis Center exposed SJP’s harassment of LDB client Max Price based on Price’s Jewish identity and beliefs. SJP withdrew its impeachment complaint, and the hearing scheduled against Price was canceled. This […] Blog
January 1, 1970 Pope Francis Condemns Anti-Semitism “Let Anti-Semitism be banished from the heart and life of every man and every woman!” Pope Francis used the words when greeting members of Rome’s Jewish community to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the city’s Jewish population during the Nazi occupation. Pope Francis began by expressing his closeness to Rome’s Jewish community, which is the […] Blog