February 20, 2015 Jewish Studies Dept. at UC Davis Lines Up to Drink the KoolAid The Jewish Studies Department at UC Davis is sponsoring a staging of the anti-Semitic opera, “Klinghoffer’.” See Abraham H. Miller in LA Jewish Journal at http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/jewish_studies_to_bring_anti_semitic_opera_to_uc_davis Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism Blog
February 17, 2015 LDB Builds Law Student Chapter Initiative to Fight Anti-Semitism The Brandeis Center works to combat anti-Semitism on college and university campuses across the nation, through, research, public outreach, legal advocacy, and most recently, our law student chapters. In a major new initiative launched last year, LDB is working to create an ever-growing nationwide network of inaugural chapters for students at select law schools throughout […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
February 16, 2015 Academic Progressivism Descends into Moral Madness In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is that their quarrel is only with Israelis and their government’s policies, not with Jews themselves. But that specious defense has fallen […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
February 16, 2015 LDB Outraged by UCLA Treatment of Jewish Candidate This afternoon, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law www.brandeiscenter.com expressed “outrage” at anti-Semitism within the University of California at Los Angeles’ Undergraduate Student Assembly Council (USAC). Blog
February 12, 2015 U.K. Anti-Semitic Attacks Reach New Levels Record levels of anti-Semitism were reported in the UK in 2014 by the The Community Security Trust, a Jewish security charity, according to The Guardian. The charity runs an incident hotline that reported 1,168 anti-Semitic incidents against British Jews, which has doubled since 2013. Last month, the UK released a report that indicated anti-Semitic activity was on […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
February 11, 2015 AAJLJ Speaker Series: Is Jerusalem in Israel? Join the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists’s (AAJLJ) DC Chapter for an exciting luncheon event on Monday, February 23, 2015. This installment of the AAJLJ’s speaker series, called “Is Jerusalem in Israel? The Zivotofsky (Jerusalem Passport) Case,” features a member of our legal advisory board, Alyza D. Lewin. Ms. Lewin is AAJLJ’s president, a partner […] Blog Litigation
February 8, 2015 More’s at Stake Than Manners Just listen randomly to the lyrics of rap songs, and you’ll graphically understand that the age of Miss Manners—which started in this country when nineteenth-century Americans read etiquette books in imitation of their English Victorian betters—is long past. Yet there seems to be an attempt to revive the Court of Good Manners in at least […] Blog Anti-Zionism
February 6, 2015 Will Jewish Human Rights Consciousness Survive in the Virtual Future? Though Jews believe in the coming of the Messiah to set everything straight, I would argue that Judaism is a present-oriented religion in a praxis with the past. This is why Jews every year sit down at Passover to relive their liberation from Egypt—the ur-event that’s the blueprint for their future and the foundation of […] Blog
February 6, 2015 Fighting the Satanic Jew for Palestine The title of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s book on the resurgence of anti-Semitism in our time, “The Devil That Never Dies,” can also be read as a not-so-veiled allusion to the centuries-old demonization of Jews as devilish or satanic. What began in the Middle Ages was revived by the Nazis, and remains popular among today’s neo-Nazi […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
February 4, 2015 Who’s Behind the Rise of ISIS? According to Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei: “It is a few years now that it has been revived and strengthened with the plots of arrogance, with the money of some regional governments and with the schemes of the intelligence services of colonialist countries such as America, England and the Zionist regime… There is an undeniable point which […] Blog