July 17, 2014 The Mideast Gospel According to David Horowitz On a talk radio show, David Horowitz, editor of “Front Page” Magazine, claimed: “Hamas is worse than the Nazis. [Adolf] Hitler hid the Final Solution, [his] hideous plan to exterminate the Jews. “Hamas has it in its charter, and every day you hear them shouting it from the rooftops. ‘We want to kill all the […] Blog
July 17, 2014 The University of Oregon’s New “Animal House” I taught at the University of Oregon, Eugene, way back when the campus was the setting for “Animal House” (1978) starring John Belushi. Now, following the swastiska spray painting of a back door a few years ago of the Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi, the same has been done to mails boxes in front of […] Blog
July 17, 2014 LDB President to Testify on Federal Sexual Harassment Policy The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced today that Louis D. Brandeis Center President Kenneth L. Marcus will at the Commission’s Briefing on Federal Enforcement of Title IX Sexual Harassment Law in Elementary, Secondary, and Post-secondary Schools on Friday July 25, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. Blog
July 15, 2014 The Mideast Gospel According to Andrew Sullivan The dissection of Andrew Sullivan I did a few years ago for the “Jerusalem Post” needs an update. Here is the most recent example of the vicious anti-Israel rant that has been characteristic of Andrew Sullivan for about 10 years. Defenders of Israel are guilty of distracting: “from the fact that Hamas itself did not […] Blog
July 14, 2014 The Perils of Proportionality With Israeli special forces starting operations in Gaza to complement the IDF’s surgical air campaign against the indiscriminate, increasingly long-rage terror barrage from “Hamastan,” the international community , quite predictably, is beginning to rev up its favorite mantra, i.e., that the Jewish state is guilty of “disproportionate response.” After all, Palestinian civilians—ordered by Hamas to […] Anti-Zionism Blog
July 8, 2014 The American Founding and Human Rights According to “The New Republic” “The New Republic”—whose founding editor Walter Lippmann outgrew radical “new psychology” to found a conservative “public philosophy” based on natural reason—graced the Fifth of July with a breathless review of some new books arguing that the American founding fathers were flaming “free thinkers.” The purpose of this agnostic bombast was, in the wake of the […] Anti-Semitism
July 8, 2014 The “New York Times” Perverts Poetry to Dispense Anti-Israel Propaganda “Commentary” and other outlets are condemning the “New York Times” for distorting the clear meaning of Haim Nahman Bialik’s poem, “On the Slaughter” (1903), about the Kishinev Massacre to slander Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu called—contrary to the “Times”—for foregoing revenge in the wake of the kidnap-murder of three Jewish teenagers. He quoted the […] Anti-Zionism Blog
July 7, 2014 Vendetta Claims a Victim According to Lee Smith whose beat is the Mideast, Arabs are better at feuding than making war. This is why it was not only a terrible crime, but a tragic mistake when apparently Jewish extremists—outraged by the kidnap-murder of three teenage Jewish boys, Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrach and Gil-ad Shaar—invited an Arab-Jewish blood feud by […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 2, 2014 From “The Hidden Persuaders” to “The Facebook Effect” Facebook has admitted tweaking the content of posts in an experiment to see if certain kinds of wording can manipulate readers’ moods—perhaps with the ultimate purpose of giving the sponsors of paid “advertorials” a new tool to manipulate the minds of consumers. Criticism of this “scientific experiment” has been wide-spread but not universal. After all, […] Blog
July 2, 2014 The Worst Campus Anti-Semitic Incidents of 2013-2014 This past academic year was a turbulent one on many college campuses, keeping the Brandeis Center’s legal advocacy initiative busy from coast-to-coast protecting Jewish students from hostile environments. Which incidents do you think were the worst? Unfortunately, there have been many to choose among. Here are a few to consider: ASA – On December 15, the American […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog