February 11, 2022 Members of Congress Send Letter to Office For Civil Rights Urging Action on Campus anti-Semitism On February 4, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and a group of 39 bipartisan Members of Congress sent a letter to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), urging it to take concrete steps to support Jewish students and address the rising threat of anti-Semitism on campus. Members asked the Department of […] Anti-Semitism Blog
February 7, 2022 Call for Papers for Conference on “21st Century Antisemitism” The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism has issued a call for papers and panels for its upcoming conference on “21st Century Antisemitism: A Global Conference with a UK Focus.” The conference will be held at Queen Mary, University of London, Lincoln’s Inn Fields on September 11-13, 2022. The deadline to submit panel […] Blog
December 7, 2021 Our laws cannot allow public schools to shield sexual predators | Opinion (The Hill) The Hill December 6, 2021 by Kenneth L. Marcus and Kimberly M. Richey, Opinion Contributors — The Biden administration recently announced its new proposed Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), providing numerous revisions to the most authoritative repository of information on civil rights in public schools. Predictably, the Biden proposal seeks new data on coronavirus responses and LGBTQ issues, including the addition […] Blog
November 1, 2021 The Worst Place for a Jew to Be, by Diane B. Kunz The Worst Place for a Jew to Be What is the worst place to be a Jew in America in 2021? According to Professor Günther Jikeli of Indiana University, it is on a college campus. His statement is substantiated by three new surveys of American college students and other Jewish Americans, all reported within the […] Blog
October 4, 2021 LDB Welcomes First Scholar-in-Residence The Louis D. Brandeis Center Welcomes Diane Kunz as Scholar-in-Residence Washington, D.C., October 1, 2021: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is pleased to announce the inaugural appointment of Diane Kunz to the newly created role of Scholar-in-Residence. Dr. Kunz is a distinguished historian and legal scholar who most recently served as Senior […] Blog
September 30, 2021 Professor Orde Kittrie debunks the charge that Israel is an “apartheid” nation and sounds the alarm on a newly established UN Commission On September 14, the UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI) Charitable Trust hosted a webinar titled “The Accusation of Israel as an Apartheid State,” featuring a presentation by Arizona State University Law Professor Orde Kittrie on the mandate of the new United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) created by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Among […] Anti-Zionism Blog
September 24, 2021 Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews, a Book Review by Diane Kunz In her new book People Love Dead Jews – Reports from a Haunted Present, author Dara Horn quotes from a letter she received from Denise, a women who had read Horn’s novel The World to Come, the protagonist of which was a pogrom survivor. Denise chastised Horn for writing a dismal book, instead of one […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
September 5, 2021 The Louis D. Brandeis Center Appoints Steven Resnicoff to Academic Advisory Board Washington, D.C., August 5, 2021: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Steven H. Resnicoff to the Center’s Academic Advisory Board. Mr. Resnicoff is a professor of law at DePaul University and director of the university’s Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies (JLJS). […] Blog
September 2, 2021 International Humanitarian Law In Asymmetric Warfare The Louis D. Brandeis Center (LDB or the Brandeis Center) has published an important new fact sheet on its website on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and its application in asymmetric warfare, or conflicts between a state or traditional force and a non-traditional or non-state force (e.g., Israel and Hamas). This fact sheet educates students and others […] Blog
September 2, 2021 Long Island Towns Adopt IHRA At a board of trustees meeting on August 17th, 2021, The Village of Great Neck, N.Y., unanimously voted to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of anti-Semitism. The decision followed that of five other New York State municipalities to adopt the IHRA definition, including Hempstead, North Hempstead, Nassau County, Oyster Bay and […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog