May 21, 2014 Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose: McCarthy Era Loyalty Oaths Are Back at UCLA— This Time Targeting Jews My alma mater has some proud moments in the history of civil liberties. In 1939, the UCLA Philosophy Department hired Bertrand Russell. (You can buy for a pretty penny on E-Bay a 1940 UCLA Yearbook featuring both him and Jackie Robinson.) This was before Russell was unceremoniously barred by the City University of New York […] Blog
May 20, 2014 UC Officials Condemn Actions By SJP Recently, there have been disturbing developments at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP, has been making moves to block pro-Israel, Jewish groups groups from getting a fair voice in campus policy-making. What is even more surprising, and maybe even sickening, is that no other groups are being targeted. […] Anti-Zionism Blog
May 19, 2014 Brandeis Center Lauds University of California Statements on Civil Discouse The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) today lauded public statements by University of California President Janet Napolitano and University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Chancellor Gene Block on the importance of civil discourse. Blog
May 18, 2014 Trojan Horse “Plots” to “Islamize” British Secular Education Rather than summarize these articles in my words, which the reader might discount, I provide links that read like a Robert Heinlein sci fi horror story set in the emerging Universal Caliphate: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10776607/Islamist-plot-six-schools-face-Ofsted-special-measures.html Uses and Abuses Blog
May 15, 2014 Debating the Holocaust* Recently, an assignment, designed by teachers and approved by an administrator, at Southern California’s Rialto School District sought to improve critical thinking skills of 2000 eighth graders by having them debate whether the Holocaust really happened or instead was “a plot” to falsify history. Now, Charles C. W. Cooke has made a case in the […] Anti-Semitism Blog
May 14, 2014 Polls Apart: The ADL’s First Survey of “Global Anti-Semitism” Such eye-popping ADL findings as that 26 percent of the world’s population qualifies as “anti-Semitic” (i.e., harbors at least 6 of 11 core anti-Semitic attitudes) and that 35 percent has never heard of the Holocaust are receiving blanket media coverage. They are available in detailed strokes—but with a Methodology section that I suspect will leave […] Blog
May 14, 2014 LDB President to Deliver Keynote Address Blasting BDS Movement This evening in Tel Aviv, LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus will deliver an important keynote address at an important conference on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The IAM conference, entitled “BDS Campaign Against Israel: On Campusand Beyond,” will take tonight at 6 p.m. in Tel Aviv University, Max Webb Hall 1. LDB President Marcus, a […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
May 8, 2014 Pro-Palestinian Anti-Semitism at Vassar Vassar College, which describes itself as “a highly selective, residential, coeducational liberal arts college,” has recently attracted a lot of attention because of the energetic activism of so-called “pro-Palestinian” groups like Vassar’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) who were apparently supported by dozens of faculty members. As I noted in a related post a […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
May 7, 2014 The Transformation of Urban Liberalism: Bertrand Russell Bites the Dust Liberalism in American politics has been around at least since Thomas Jefferson. But—as many times in the past—today’s liberal is not your granddaddy’s garden variety. A case in point is the contrast between two New York City mayors: Bill de Blasio, a champion of gay rights whose multiracial, multicultural family was among his chief selling […] Blog
May 5, 2014 Brussels Ban on Anti-Semites’ Summit Shimon Samuels and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have had a significant victory in their effort to block a summit of anti-Semitic leaders that had been planned for Belgium. Their report follows: Wiesenthal Centre commends Belgian Interior Minister, urging her to now block hatefest organizer’s candidacy in 25 May European Parliament elections” 4 May, The Simon Wiesenthal […] Anti-Semitism Blog