July 22, 2013 Job Opportunity at ISGAP Charles Asher Small, a member of LDB’s Board of Academic Advisors, is hiring a Chief of Staff for his organization, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). This looks like an interesting opportunity for the right candidate. ISGAP | The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy – Announcement Dear […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 21, 2013 European Shame When three years ago the former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, decided to expel a few thousands of European Union citizens of Roma origin from the French territory (for a small financial compensation), the EU Commission itself intervened and most of the media did not hide their outrage. French public opinion, however, was divided – […] Litigation
July 18, 2013 Brandeis Center Welcomes Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska–Grabias to the Brandeis Blog Team The Louis D. Brandeis Center has recently had the pleasure of adding yet another impressive figure to the center’s long list of blog contributors. Polish legal scholar Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska–Grabias will now be a regular contributor to the Brandeis Center blog. Dr. Gliszczyńska-Grabias joins a team of impressive legal and historical minds who regularly contribute to […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 18, 2013 Anti-Semitism Returns to the House of Commons Less than six months after the Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, David Ward, was accused of anti-Semitism for the equating the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews with “the Jews” treatment of the Palestinians, yet another Liberal Democrat MP, Sir Bob Russell, has equated the victims of the Holocaust with the ‘plight of the Palestinians’ […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 16, 2013 New Book Claims KGB Used Anti-Semitism Against America Did the KGB use anti-Semitism as a cold war strategy to isolate the United States? A new book suggests they did. According to a new book by a high-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence officer who defected to the West, the KGB deliberately fomented anti-Semitism in Muslim countries in order to turn them against the United States. Several […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 15, 2013 Brandeis Center Congratulates New Hillel President and CEO Eric Fingerhut On Sunday evening, the Board of Directors of Hillel unanimously approved Eric Fingerhut as the next President and CEO of the organization, replacing Wayne Firestone, who stepped down last month. Fingerhut, a former U.S. Congressman from Ohio, will help steer the central Hillel organization, strategizing for the movement and raising funds for the 550 campus […] Blog
July 12, 2013 The Brandeis Center Welcomes its 4000th Facebook “Like” The Louis Brandeis Center is pleased today to be “liked” by its 4000th fan on Facebook. (Thank you, Miguel Lopez.) As we celebrate this milestone, it is a good time to take stock of our vibrant Facebook fan community, which has enjoyed a weekly total reach often rising into the tens of thousands. Over the […] Blog
July 10, 2013 Europe’s Toxic Anti-Semitism Problem Manfred Gerstenfeld, author the new book, “Demonizing Israel and the Jews,” and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Robert Wistrich, probably the world’s leading authority on the history of anti-Semitism, are like diagnosticians who agree on the grim prognosis for European Jewry, but disagree on the probable cause of death. Gerstenfeld has attracted a headline in […] Anti-Semitism Blog
July 4, 2013 Jewish NGOs Add Their Voices Against the World’s Last Totalitarian Gulag According to North Korean defectors, President Kim Jong-un recently “issued an order for the Third Reich to be studied in depth” for “practical applications be drawn from it.” Another source reports him as saying that North Korea’s secret police should be restructured—“similar to the Gestapo.” Whether or not the twenty-something tyrant is really passing out […] Blog
July 2, 2013 Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Ceremony to be Broadcast in English Our friends at Yad Vashem are announcing this English language broadcast of the 2013 Erev Yom HaShoah (Holocaust memorial) service: The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) network http://nrb.org/ in partnership with the Christian Friends of Yad Vashem http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/friends/christian/index.asp will for the first time ever be broadcasting the Erev Yom HaShoah (Eve of the Holocaust Memorial Day) state ceremony from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. The event […] Anti-Semitism Blog