May 31, 2013 Welcome Rafael Medoff The Brandeis Center Blog is pleased to welcome Dr. Rafael Medoff as our next guest blogger. Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which focuses on America’s response to the Holocaust. A prolific author, Medoff has written numerous books and articles. His most recent book is FDR and […] Anti-Semitism Blog
May 26, 2013 Should a Pro-Israel Student Organization Be Required to Admit People Who Oppose the Existence of the State of Israel? According to a Troubling Campus Trend, They Should For the final post of my oddly 21-day “week” of guest posting for the Brandeis Center blog, I want to focus on a troubling trend on college campuses which prevents belief-based organizations from excluding people hostile to their core beliefs. I talk about this trend in detail and at length in my book, and for now, […] Anti-Zionism Blog
May 26, 2013 Sweden’s Reckoning The UK and U.S. Embassy have cautioned their nationals about visiting Stockholm and environs because of a of week of riots in ostensibly enlightened Sweden by predominantly Muslim immigrants and their children, attributed alternatively to “police brutality” or bad social conditions. In 2010, the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued its own “travel advisory” cautioning Jewish travelers […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
May 25, 2013 “Statism” Was NOT Hitler’s Worst Crime I recently read a reminder that—while liberalism certainly has its failings—there is still ample reason to be concerned about right-wing misunderstandings of history and of the dynamics of prejudice and discrimination. A case study is PJ Media’s recent decision to give a platform to Walter Hudson, a Minnesota talk radio host whose self-appointed task is […] Blog
May 24, 2013 Brandeis Center Resolves Concerns With UC Davis The Brandeis Center is delighted to announce that it has successfully resolved campus anti-Semitism concerns that it had raised with the University of California at Davis. In a press release to be issued later this morning, the Center will laud UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi for her leadership in responding to a November 2012 incident on […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog
May 23, 2013 Federal Mandate Imposes Draconian National Collegiate Speech Code Two weeks ago, I began my week of guest blogging for the Brandeis Center blog. Before my final blog post, however, I was stopped dead in my tracks by a letter issued jointly by the Departments of Education and Justice to the University of Montana. While the ED and DOJ were investigating the University of […] Anti-Semitism
May 22, 2013 Brandeis Center Welcomes First Intern Class Today, the Brandeis Center announced its first intern class as it continues the ongoing expansion of its campaign against campus anti-Semitism. LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus welcomed the Brandeis Center’s first Civil Rights Law Clerk Nicole Galletta and its first Development Intern, Christina Gathman. A second Development Intern, Andrew Loeb, will join the Center next week. Galletta and […] Anti-Semitism Blog
May 21, 2013 Brandeis Center and SPME Defend Tammi Rossman-Benjamin Against Attacks The Brandeis Center and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) have just issued the following statement: WASHINGTON, DC — The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East today issued a Joint Statement in defense of University of California at Santa Cruz lecturer […] Anti-Semitism Blog
May 21, 2013 While the Mideast Burns, “The Elders” Fiddle, and Ireland Scapegoats Israel Rubberstamping the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement’s drive to delegitimate and demonize “Apartheid” Israel, the Irish government has announced that produce from the West Bank should be declared “illegal” by the EU. Giving their blessing on a Dublin visit were the so-called “Elders,” the seven-member “peace-making” delegation that includes former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, […] Blog
May 20, 2013 Turkey’s “Darwinian” Islamization: Implications for Israelis and Jews As Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan returns home from his visit to his biggest western fan, President Barack Obama, only to prepare for a controversial pilgrimage to Hamas-controlled Gaza, Turkey’s educational system is being mocked internationally. A spoof in “The Scientific American” focuses on revelations that Istanbul textbooks have pictured Charles Darwin as “a […] Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism Blog