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
August 16, 2021 New Report on Anti-Semitism Within UNRWA Calls into Question Future of US Funding to Agency Earlier this month UN Watch, a Geneva-based NGO that monitors the United Nations (UN), released a report edited by Hillel Neuer, titled “Beyond the Textbooks: a Report Exposing UNRWA Teachers’ Incitement to Antisemitism and Terrorism.” The report documents 22 cases of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff promotion of terror and incitement against Jews and […] Anti-Semitism Blog
August 10, 2021 At Central America Forum for Israel, U.S. Senators Call for Global Adoption of IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism At last week’s virtual Central America Forum for Israel conference, U.S. Senators James Lankford and Jacky Rosen – co-founders and co-chairs of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism – called for a wider adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism in combatting surging global Jew-hatred. The Central America […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 27, 2021 LDB’s Summer Speaker Series Continues with Lesley Klaff and Mark Goldfeder Discussing “Law and Jewish Identity” On July 7th, Professor and Brandeis Center Academic Advisory Board Member Lesley Klaff and Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder continued the Brandeis Center’s Summer Speaker Series with a discussion about “Law and Jewish Identity.” Klaff and Goldfeder provided insightful legal analyses as part of a discussion about two age-old questions with regard to Jewish identity: are […] Anti-Semitism Blog