March 25, 2013 New Editions Planned for Alvin Rosenfeld’s Landmark Holocaust Volume The End of the Holocaust will soon be available to readers in Israel. LDB Academic Advisor Alvin Rosenfeld (Indiana University), a leading scholar of Holocaust literature, will shortly publish his landmark volume in Hebrew, by the Magnes Press of Jerusalem and Yad Vashem. The End of the Holocaust is also scheduled to appear next year in German, […] Blog Anti-Semitism
March 23, 2013 Historian Harold Brackman to Guest Blog on BDS and Other Topics On Thursday, I blogged very briefly about the Simon Wiesenthal’s interesting new report on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. SWC’s report really deserves more attention, so I am pleased to announce that its author, Dr. Harold Brackman, has agreed to join us as a guest blogger over the next couple of weeks. Dr. Brackman will […] Anti-Semitism Blog
March 23, 2013 Legal Scholar Lesley Klaff to Join Brandeis Blog We’re delighted to welcome English legal scholar Lesley Klaff to the Louis D. Brandeis Center Blog. Klaff, who is also a member of the Louis D. Brandeis Center’s Legal Advisory Board, will give an international perspective to the Blog, which thus far has featured bloggers from the United States and Canada. Klaff’s expertise ranges from legal […] Blog Anti-Semitism
March 22, 2013 Obama Says That Israel Does Not Exist Because of Holocaust Touring Yad Vashem, President Obama has just argued that Israel does not owe its existence to the Holocaust, but that it prevents another Holocaust from occurring: Because after you walk through these halls, after you pass through the darkness, there is light — a glorious view of the Jerusalem Forest, with the sun shining over […] Blog
March 22, 2013 If you can’t Recognize Hate Speech, the sunlight can’t penetrate This week the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), an Australian Charity which I have the privilege of leading as its CEO, released my major new report into Hate Speech on Facebook. OHPI seeks to facilitate a change in online culture so that hate in all its forms becomes as socially unacceptable online as it is in “real […] Blog Anti-Semitism
March 22, 2013 Where Was The President When He Was Supposedly In Israel? What a week it has been for Jerusalem. The President of the United States arrived, transformed the King David Hotel into his (and his entourage’s) home away from home, and then began a series of meetings and visits – to the official residences of President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, to […] Blog
March 21, 2013 Autonomous Histories The Kantor Center at Tel Aviv University is circulating a very interesting Call for Papers on “Autonomous Histories and Studies of the Holocaust,” which the Center is co-convening with four other institutions. (LDB Advisor Dina Porat heads the Kantor Center.) The impetus for the conference is the perception that Holocaust studies have developed within two […] Blog Anti-Semitism
March 21, 2013 Simon Wiesenthal Center Issues New BDS Report The Simon Wiesenthal Center has just issued a new report on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, authored by Dr. Harold Brackman, “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel: An Anti-Semitic, Anti-Peace Poison Pill.” The beautifully produced report argues that the “essence” of the BDS movement can be understood in terms of Natan Sharansky’s famous “three […] Blog Anti-Semitism
March 17, 2013 Danit Sibovits joins Louis D. Brandeis Center As part of its new nationwide Litigation Initiative, the Louis D. Brandeis Center has hired former prosecutor Danit Sibovits to investigate and prosecute serious anti-Semitism cases in federally funded colleges and universities. Our press release announcing Danit’s arrival appears below. Press Release Body WASHINGTON, DC, March 17, 2013 — The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights […] Blog
March 17, 2013 Welcome New Bloggers The Louis D. Brandeis Center Blog welcomes two guest bloggers and two new regular bloggers this week: Alyza Lewin, Andre Oboler, Richard Cravatts, and Danit Sibovits. All four reflect the Brandeis Center’s commitment to combatting global and campus anti-Semitism, while protecting free speech and academic freedom, and promoting justice for all people. Blog Anti-Semitism