Media Coverage

Published by Inside Higher Ed on 11/27/24 Occidental College has settled with two nonprofit organizations focused on combating antisemitism over a federal Office for Civil Rights complaint that the campus was a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students in the weeks and months following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.  Under the settlement, reached with […]

Published by the Jewish Journal on 11/26/24 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law reached a settlement agreement with Occidental College over a Title VI complaint filed to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) alleging that the college failed to properly address antisemitic incidents on campus. […]

Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/26/24. In response to a federal Title VI complaint filed against Occidental College in April alleging a “hostile environment” for Jewish and Israeli students, the Los Angeles-based private liberal arts college agreed on Tuesday to implement a series of initiatives to mend the campus climate, including the adoption of […]

Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/26/2024 With just under two months left in office, Biden administration appointees are making wish lists of what they hope to achieve in the limited time they have left.  At the Department of Education, Catherine Lhamon, the assistant secretary for civil rights, knows she won’t make it through her […]

Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/15/2024 Two Senate Republicans wrote to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Thursday, raising concerns about federal funding for Middle East studies allegedly provided to anti-Israel professors on college campuses. The letter, from Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) focused on National Resource Centers and Foreign Language Area Studies […]

Published by The Algemeiner on 11/11/2024 A lawsuit accusing Harvard University of ignoring antisemitism has been cleared to proceed to discovery, a phase of the case which may unearth damaging revelations about how college officials discussed and crafted policy responses to anti-Jewish hatred before and after Hamas’s massacre across southern Israel last Oct. 7. The […]

Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/8/2024 Brandeis Center founder Ken Marcus: ‘We know that this is an issue that is going to be prominent on the agenda of the incoming administration’ President-elect Donald Trump ran on a promise that, if reelected, U.S. universities would lose accreditation and federal support over the unprecedented level of […]

Published by the Jewish News Syndicate on 11/7/2024 The Brandeis Center, which is suing the university, called the decision a “huge win for Jewish students.” Richard Stearns, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled on Tuesday that a Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law suit against […]

Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/5/2024. A federal lawsuit against Harvard University that alleges the school has ignored the harassment of Jewish students for more than a year is set to begin after a U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday rejected Harvard’s request for dismissal, but denied claims that the school directly discriminated against Jewish and […]

Published by Inside Higher Ed on 11/1/2024 House Republicans lambasted private elite colleges and some state flagship universities for how they’ve handled pro-Palestinian protests in a new report in which they argue that antisemitism has engulfed college campuses and administrators prioritized “terrorist sympathizers” over the Jewish community.  In the scathing 325-page report released Thursday, Republicans on House Education and […]