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May 8, 2019 ADL’s 2018 Audit Recorded 1,879 Anti-Semitic Incidents

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released its 2018 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents last week. Each year, the ADL’s Center on Extremism tracks incidents of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism and assault in the United States. These findings are published in an annual audit. The 2018 report documents that 1,879 anti-Semitic occurred in the U.S. over the course of […]

May 3, 2019 Sixth BDS National Conference and its Terror Ties

The BDS National Committee hosted its sixth annual BDS National Conference, which was heavily attended by individuals associated with terrorism.

May 2, 2019 Florida Senate Unanimously Passes Anti-Semitism Bill

On April 29th, the State of Florida’s Senate unanimously passed an “Act relating to anti-Semitism.” This bill will ensure that schools address anti-Semitic behavior in the same manner as other forms of discrimination, while also defining anti-Semitism. The passage of the bill comes just a couple days after the horrific attack at Chabad of Poway, where a gunman left one dead and wounded three others (including a child) on the last day of Passover.

April 25, 2019 Israeli Apartheid Week Sparked Fear and Silence, Not Education or Answers

Re-posted from the The Emory Wheel, 4/17/19 By Sydney Kaplan, Jordan Weber and Justin Kanoff Earlier this month was Emory Students for Justice in Palestine’s (ESJP) Israeli Apartheid Week, and the Wheel published an op-ed discussing an event that occurred on campus that troubled members of our campus community. For unfamiliar readers, several students awoke […]

April 17, 2019 Brandeis Center Responds to “Conflict over Gaza” Conference Hosted by UNC and Duke

In late March, the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Duke University departments of Middle East and Islamic Studies co-sponsored a conference titled “Conflict over Gaza: People, Politics, and Possibilities.” The weekend-long gathering claimed to “shed much needed light on the current realities in the Gaza strip,” though it was wrought with Israel bashing and misinformation.

April 14, 2019 Anti-Israel Protesters Disrupt Event at UChicago Law

Anti-Israelprotesters disrupted a talk by George Mason University School of Law Professor Eugene Kontorovich, an International Law expert who was invited to speak to the LDB chapter at the University of Chicago Law School about anti-BDS laws and the First Amendment. The disruptors, one of whom was a UChicago law student, were first asked to leave by the law school administration. When the non-students refused to leave and continued chanting and disrupting, the police had to be called to remove them from the room.

April 11, 2019 Israeli Children Harassed on Bus Because of Their Passports

A group of economically disadvantaged Israeli children were given the opportunity to travel to Germany to see German soccer club Borussia Dortmund play at their home stadium. Unfortunately for them, the group was harassed by staff onboard a bus to an Amsterdam airport because of their Israeli passports.

March 29, 2019 California State University Agrees to Landmark Settlement – Zionism is Important Part of Jewish Identity

California State University (CSU) agreed to a landmark settlement with The Lawfare Project and Winston & Strawn LLP to safeguard Jewish students’ rights. The settlement came shortly before the case was set to go to trial this month for a lawsuit brought by two Jewish students who alleged that San Francisco State University (SFSU) and the Board of Trustees of CSU discriminated against them.