September 4, 2025 The Brandeis Brief: September 2025 As the school year begins, the Brandeis Center continues its vital work confronting anti-Semitism on campuses, in classrooms, and beyond. This month’s Brandeis Brief highlights our latest lawsuit against UC Berkeley alleging discrimination against an Israeli professor, important progress at Adelphi University, new insights from our leadership in national media, and upcoming opportunities to engage with our […] 2025 Brandeis Brief
September 3, 2025 UMass Amherst Boycotts Israeli Academics From Upcoming Conference Brandeis Center demands UMass President, Chancellor and Board of Trustees immediately reverse this discrimination Washington, D.C. (September 3, 2025) – Ahead of the upcoming Coalition of Women in German (WiG) annual academic conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which plans to exclude and boycott scholars receiving funding from “Israeli institutions,” the Louis D. Brandeis Center for […] Press Releases Press Room
August 25, 2025 UC Berkeley Sued for Discriminating Against Israeli Professor Washington, D.C. (August 20, 2025) – The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the law firm of Olivier & Schreiber PC sued the University of California (UC) Berkeley today in California Superior Court, alleging the school violated California anti-discrimination laws when it rejected the teaching application of a professor solely because […] Press Room Press Releases
August 8, 2025 The Brandeis Brief: August 2025 This month, the Brandeis Center continues to lead the fight against anti-Semitism on and off America’s campuses and workplaces. From new legal actions against K-12 schools in Virginia, California, and Massachusetts, to a new lawsuit filed against Stanford University, we are using an array of legal tools to hold institutions accountable. Our work has also […] 2025 Brandeis Brief
August 7, 2025 Antisemitism’s newest safe space: Teachers’ unions (The Hill) Published by The Hill on 8/6/2025 by Kenneth Marcus. At Nysmith School in Virginia, three Jewish siblings were expelled after their parents notified the headmaster about the relentless antisemitic bullying faced by one of the daughters. At Concord-Carlisle High School in Massachusetts, students gave Nazi salutes in school hallways, divided themselves into teams called “Team Auschwitz” and “Team Hamas” […] Op-Eds Press Room
August 5, 2025 ‘Decolonizing Therapy’ and the erasure of Jewish identity in mental health (Jerusalem Post) Published by the Jerusalem Post on 7/29/25 Antisemitism is becoming increasingly more prevalent within therapy and therapeutic spaces. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law recently wrote about antisemitic incidents within the mental health sphere, including a Washington, DC-based therapist who refused to see a Jewish patient who had recently moved to the […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 ‘All of Our Strength’: Over 1,000 Pro-Israel Activists Gather in DC for Solidarity Conference (Algemeiner) Published by the Algemeiner on 7/29/25 Over 1,000 Jewish students, faculty, and activists amassed in Washington, DC on July 27-29 to attend the Israel on Campus Coalition’s annual National Leadership Summit (NLS), an electric event which achieved creating the atmosphere of both a festival of Jewish elation and an academic conference. Founded in 2002, the […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 Ivy League universities paid hundreds of millions to settle with Trump. Is UCLA next? (LA Times) Published in the Los Angeles Times on 8/2/25 University of California leaders face a difficult choice after the U.S. Department of Justice said this week that UCLA had violated the civil rights of Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests and federal agencies on Wednesday suspended more than $300 million in research grants to the school. Do they agree […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university’s new definition of antisemitism (Associated Press) Published by the Associated Press on 7/25/25 NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Marianne Hirsch, a prominent genocide scholar at Columbia University, has used Hannah Arendt’s book about the trial of a Nazi war criminal, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,” to spark discussion among her students about the Holocaust and […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 Inside the powerful task force spearheading Trump’s assault on colleges, DEI (Washington Post) Published by the Washington Post on 7/24/25 In 2021, future vice president JD Vance delivered a speech titled “The Universities Are the Enemy.” A few years later, during his campaign, Donald Trump called college leaders “Marxist maniacs.” Now their administration is using the full force of the federal government to investigate long-standing conservative complaints about universities, making […] Uncategorized Media Coverage