July 2, 2013 Today’s German Question Mark Winston Churchill famously quipped of Russia: “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Twenty-first century Germany is, instead, a question mark—especially regarding its relationship to the present and future of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish hatreds. Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper cites a new cartoon (belatedly apologized for) in Germany’s largest […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
July 1, 2013 Manfred Gerstenfeld Interviews Kenneth L. Marcus on Campus Anti-Semitism (German) Our German-reading friends will be interested to know that Manfred Gerstenfeld’s recent interview with LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus is now available here online in German. In this interview, Marcus discusses the application of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to fight anti-Semitism in American higher education. Anti-Semitism Blog
June 28, 2013 Seminar: The UCU, Antisemitism and the Boycott Campaigns Against Israel The Louis D. Brandeis Center was recently made aware of an upcoming conference which readers may find interesting. One of the main topics of discussion will be the recent Fraser v. UCU court case, a very important case which several contributors to the Brandeis Center’s blog have analyzed throughout the past few weeks. Thu 11 […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 27, 2013 Kenneth L. Marcus on Campus Anti-Semitism LDB President Kenneth Marcus recently went on The Edwin Black Show to discuss the anti-Israeli de-legitimization, or BDS (boycott, divest, and sanction) movement. Mr. Marcus, in particular, was able to address what is happening on college campuses in regards to this BDS movement. According to Mr. Marcus, this problem is something repeatedly presenting itself on America’s college campuses […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 25, 2013 U.S. Supreme Court Reaches Encouraging Decision in Fisher Yesterday, June 24, 2013, the United States Supreme Court released its decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin where it considered the University’s use of race in undergraduate admissions decisions. In an encouraging decision the Court held, by a 7-1 majority, that “because the Fifth Circuit did not hold the University to the […] Blog
June 24, 2013 Speech from Tammi Rossman-Benjamin will Highlight Campus Anti-Semitism On June 30th, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin will deliver a talk at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California. Entitled “Campus and the New Anti-Semitism”, the talk will focus on “the hostile, anti-Israel climate which university students across the country are facing and the challenges of addressing campus anti-Semitism.” Rossman-Benjamin, a Brandeis Center […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
June 18, 2013 The Massive Blind Spot of LGBT Activists Who See Mideast Through BDS Lenses Of course, degrees of acceptance for gays are relative, and the LGBT community in Israel has complaints. A same-sex civil unions bill hasn’t yet passed the Knesset. Still—compared to many other places—the Jewish state would seem to be paradise. What’s the worst place on earth for gays? Probably Uganda, but—with the exception of Morocco and […] Blog
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