January 16, 2015 Brandeis Center Launches Winternship Program with Harvard This month, the Brandeis Center launched a new Harvard Winternship (or winter internship) Program based on a new model for January internships developed by Harvard College and the Harvard Club of Washington. In its inaugural year, LDB welcomes two Harvard students, David Leeds and Dilia Zwart, who will spend their winter break working for the […] Anti-Semitism Blog
January 16, 2015 LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus to Address The StandWithUS Anti-BDS Conference In response to readers’ questions, you may register for the event at this page of the StandWithUs website. Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
January 12, 2015 Brandeis University, Daniel Mael, and Freedom of Speech As the Washington Free Beacon reports, and as others have reported here and here, Brandeis University issued a “No Contact Order” (NCO) to student journalist and outspoken Israel-supporter Daniel Mael last week, which would have restricted his movements on campus. This order, which was immediately revoked this past Friday following an intense media outcry, comes […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism
January 9, 2015 UKLI Israel Lawyers’ Trip We are forwarding a message received from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) which may be of interest: UKLFI and the UK Zionist Federation are organising a special legal tour in Israel from 12-16 February. They have an impressive program (or “programme” as they say over there), including visits to the Knesset, the Supreme Court, Ofer Military Court and Tel Aviv Commercial […] Blog
January 9, 2015 The NYT Publishes “All the News That’s Fit to Print” Except That Which Offends a Muslim Family in Brooklyn French President Hollande has just finished his address to the nation on the tragic finale of the new terrorist attacks expressing condolences to the hostage victims at the Parish kosher butcher shop, condemning anti-Semitism, and of course declaring that France’s latest national horror had “nothing to do with Islam.” In fact, there is no evidence […] Blog Anti-Semitism
January 8, 2015 ISGAP Summer Institute The ISGAP Summer Institute at Hertford College, Oxford, for the Development of Curriculum in Critical Antisemitism Studies Summer 2015 The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), an interdisciplinary research center headquartered in New York, is seeking applicants for a two-week intensive workshop-based curriculum development program for professors with full time positions at recognized universities. […] Blog Anti-Semitism
January 8, 2015 Fruits of French-Style Appeasement Last month, France cravenly voted in the UN Security Council for an Arab resolution to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a nation-state without a peace agreement with Israel. Today, an Islamist terror attack on a Parisian satiric magazine killed 10 journalists and two police. It was soon followed by another attack on a synagogue. The […] Blog
January 5, 2015 Islamist Nihilism Kenan Malik in the NYT, January 3, 2015, at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/kenan-malik-the-nihilist-rage-of-radical-islam.html?ref=opinion: “In the past, racists often viewed modernity as the property of the West and regarded the non-Western world as incapable of modernizing. Today, it is radicals who often regard modernity as a Western product, and reject both it and the West as tainted goods. “The […] Blog
January 4, 2015 Mael-Strom at Brandeis For an analysis of and interview with Brandeis student Daniel Mael about the unsuccessful attempt to intimidate him into silence for “hurting the feelings” of another Jewish student by arguing with him behalf of Israel, see Sohrab Ahmari, “How to Fight the Campus Speech Police: Get a Good Lawyer,” in the “Wall Street Journal,” January […] Blog
January 2, 2015 The Brandeis Center Holds Second Annual National Law Student Leadership Conference The Brandeis Center hosted its second National Law Student Leadership Conference in Washington, DC on December 29-30. This event took place as part of the Center’s recent law student and public outreach initiatives. Many of the students in attendance were members of their universities’ chapters of the Brandeis Center. Our law student chapter program fills […] Blog Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism Litigation