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
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