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May 5, 2013 LDB Academic Advisor Alvin Rosenfeld Honored

Professor Alvin Rosenfeld, a distinguished scholar and member of the Louis D. Brandeis Center’s Academic Advisory Board, has just received a major award from his home institution, Indiana University. The Brandeis Center congratulates Dr. Rosenfeld for this distinction and commends IU Provost Lauren Robel for bestowing the honor. WASHINGTON, DC, May 5, 2013 — The […]
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May 5, 2013 Berkeley Student Senate Guts Anti-Israel Divestment Resolution

The University of California’s long, ugly battle over anti-Israel divestment has just gotten even messier.  Brandeis readers will recall that Berkeley’s student senate passed a resolution on April 18 urging divestment from companies that do business with Israel.  Berkeley’s Chancellor Robert Birgeneau immediately repudiated the measure and announced that it would have no impact on […]
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May 3, 2013 Louis Farrakhan at 80: A Needless Legacy of Hate

There are those—like the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.—taken from us too soon. Then there are those who live on into historical obsolescence. And so it is that Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan who turns 80 this month. Had Farrakhan’s battle with prostate cancer ended soon after 1996’s Million Man March on Washington, his […]
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April 30, 2013 “Wake Up to the Anti-Semitism, You Complacent British Middle Classes”

In today’s Ha’aretz, Britain’s’s former Minister for Europe, Denis MacShane, pens a trenchant critique of English anti-Semitism, bitingly entitled: “Wake up to the anti-Semitism, you complacent British middle classes.”  MacShane has seen hard times recently, but today’s intervention demonstrates that he is still a vital voice on the global scene.  In this new piece, MacShane […]
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April 30, 2013 Jews and Genocide

An archetypal joke of the second half of the twentieth century is that Germans (or Europeans) will never forgive the Jews—for the Holocaust. When I think about the historiography of modern anti-Semitism, I think of two odd bookends: the historian Martin Jay—whose claim to fame is a book on the Horkheimer-Adorno Frankfurt School, but whose […]
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April 28, 2013 Sign-up for the Brandeis Brief

  Sign up now for the May issue of the Brandeis Brief to stay current on the campaign against campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism. The Louis D. Brandeis Center’s electronic newsletter provides original analysis on campus anti-Semitism, the campaign to restore higher education civility, and the Brandeis Center’s latest activities.  While you are at it, subscribe to […]
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April 25, 2013 AAAS Urges Israel Boycott, Faces Condemnation from SPME

In a general membership vote that has been condemned as “abhorrent,” the Association for Asian-American Studies has unanimously approved a resolution to boycott Israeli universities, becoming the first American scholarly association to do so.  Inside Higher Ed describes the AAAS vote, which was startling in its unanimity: About 10 percent of the association’s membership was […]
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April 24, 2013 Explaining the Tsarnaev Brothers: Brett Stephens’ Historical Analogy to American Jewish Communists

Wall Street Journal Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and former Jerusalem Post editor Brett Stephens (whom I respect) is discovering how much hot water you can get yourself into by using historical analogies to explain a contemporary cause célèbre. He’s being criticized—even wrongly accused of anti-Semitism—for the following comment about the Tsarnaev brothers on Fareed Zakaria’s CNN […]
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