June 18, 2013 “Boycotts- Past and Present” London Conference Wednesday, June 19, marks the beginning of a global conference at the International Consortium for Research on Anti-Semitism and Racism, hosted by the Pears Institute for the study of Anti-Semitism at Birkbeck College, University of London. The Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism was initiated in November of 2010 under the guiding principle that […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 17, 2013 Israel Bashing: Gore Vidal’s Legacy Lives On The BDS (Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions) Movement’s current, partly successful efforts in the UK, the U.S., and Canada to coopt LGBT activists to undermine tolerant Israel’s right to exist while casting a blind eye to the oppression of gays in the Arab and Muslim world does not come out of thin air. Gore Vidal, who died almost a […] Anti-Semitism Blog
June 14, 2013 The Holocaust and Contemporary Anti-Semitism in the UK I have always been curious about why and how the Holocaust has spawned new anti-Semitic tropes, such as Holocaust denial. Anthony Julius famously wrote in Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England that, “[T]he Holocaust should have altogether put paid to anti-Semitism. It should have rebutted once and for all the principal […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 14, 2013 Campus Anti-Semitism Fact Sheet Invaluable to Jewish Students The Brandeis Center has just released an important new resource for Jewish American college students, The Louis D. Brandeis Center’s Short Guide to the Law Against Campus Anti-Semitism. The Short Guide is a Fact Sheet on Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Over 40% of Jewish American college students have admitted to experiencing […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 12, 2013 The Sad Reality of Anti-Sikh Discrimination in a Post-9/11 World The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law has recently commended an FBI Advisory Policy Board recommendation that the agency track hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus, and Arab Americans – just as the Brandeis Center had previously urged in testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The Brandeis Center, which is primarily focused […] Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
June 10, 2013 Top Ten Surprises About Campus Anti-Semitism Some people might react with skepticism when told that when examining college campuses in the United States, there has been a noticeable resurgence of anti-Semitic incidents, but the trend exists regardless. The Brandeis Center has compiled this list of facts that may surprise some about campus anti-Semitism. 1. High Volume of Incidents in the Last […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 7, 2013 The Truth About FDR and the Jews Seventy years ago last week, President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sat down for lunch at the White House. As they ate, they reviewed the war effort and exchanged thoughts on their plans for the postwar era. At one point the conversation touched upon the nettlesome question of the Jews. The mass murder […] Blog
June 5, 2013 Franklin Roosevelt, Founder of Israel ? Move over, Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion, and Menachem Begin: it turns out that the man most responsible for the founding of Israel was, in fact, Franklin D. Roosevelt. This astonishing claim is being circulated by FDR partisans in a new effort to rescue their hero’s reputation in the Jewish world. The depiction of Roosevelt as […] Anti-Zionism Blog
June 3, 2013 Today’s French Blend of Hypocrisy, Anti-Semitism, and Jihad Updates Moliere’s “Tartuffe” In Moliere’s play, religious huckster Tartuffe almost undoes credulous Orgon (saved only by the King’s miraculous intervention). At today’s University of La Rochelle, a new play has been produced in which the hypocritical manipulation of the gullible—this time in the service of anti-Semitism—is the work not of an evil character but of the playwright and […] Blog
June 2, 2013 When Brandeis Was “Ashamed” of America He may have been one of his generation’s most enthusiastic exponents of American patriotism, and in many ways he was the very symbol of Jewish pride in the United States, but eighty years ago this month, Justice Louis D. Brandeis bluntly told Secretary of State Cordell Hull that he was “ashamed” of his country. Brandeis’s […] Blog