April 8, 2021 Special Podcast: Holocaust Remembrance Day with Kenneth L. Marcus (INSS) Special Podcast: Holocaust Remembrance Day ~ In this INSS podcast, dedicated to Holocaust Remembrance Day, INSS researcher Adi Kantor sits down with Prof. Kenneth L. Marcus, founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, to discuss the issue of […] Media Coverage Press Room
April 8, 2021 A definition of anti-Semitism that defends anti-Semites by Mitchell Bard (JNS) JNS.org (April 7, 2021 / JNS) In the latest installment of Jews are our own worst enemies, a group of 211 professors have decided they should redefine anti-Semitism because they are not happy with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition. To justify their need for doing so, they have built a series of straw men, speciously contending the IHRA […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 31, 2021 Palestinian Accuses College Dems of Silencing Him for Supporting IHRA (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ By Aaron Bandler (March 31, 2021) ~ A Palestinian human rights activist accused the University of Minnesota (UMN) College Democrats of blocking him for expressing support for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. Bassem Eid, who is also a political analyst, wrote in a March 30 Times of Israel blog post that […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 30, 2021 Anti-Semites Should Not Define Anti-Semitism by Richard L. Cravatts (Times of Israel) Blog by Richard L Cravatts (Times of Israel) ~ March 30, 2021 As the 2016 Internal Holocaust Remembrance Association’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism continues to be adopted by organizations and universities who find it useful as a way of identifying instances of anti-Semitism—and especially the “new anti-Semitism” which couches itself as criticism of Israel—predictably, though […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 17, 2021 Addressing Antisemitism Within and Through the Educational Systems in the United States by Kenneth L. Marcus (INSS) Read the Article Here ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus ~ Special Publication, Contemporary Antisemitism in the United States – collection of articles, March 17, 2021 (INSS – Institute for National Security Studies) The challenge for educational systems in the United States is to address antisemitism both within and through education (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe [OSCE], 2018). […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 17, 2021 Politically driven show trials move from campus to culture, by Kenneth L. Marcus (Washington Examiner) Washington Examiner ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus (March 17, 2021 – Washington Examiner) ~ In The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin’s award-winning 2020 legal drama, activist Abbie Hoffman urges lawyer William Kunstler to recognize that “this is a political trial that was already decided for us. Ignoring that reality is just weird to me.” […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 16, 2021 University of Texas Student Gov’t Passes IHRA Resolution (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ By Aaron Bandler (Jewish Journal / March 16, 2021) The student government at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin unanimously passed a resolution endorsing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism on March 9. The resolution, which was obtained by the Journal, states that adopting IHRA became necessary following […] Press Room Media Coverage
March 9, 2021 Campus Bullies: The Extreme Right Aren’t the Only Ones With an Anti-Semitism Problem By Jeff Robbins Creators Syndicate (March 9, 2021) When Max Price was elected to Tufts University’s student judicial body, he likely didn’t expect to have to fight off a move to impeach him and remove him from office for being Jewish. And yet Price’s recent experience simply replicates the kind of crude anti-Semitic intimidation now so commonplace on […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 7, 2021 “Courage was the reason campus anti-Semites were beaten,” by Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) JNS.org (March 5, 2021 / JNS) It was a familiar story but with an unfamiliar conclusion. A Jewish student objected to the anti-Semitic slanders promoted by a student organization dedicated to Israel’s destruction. For his pains, he was targeted for harassment and then scheduled to be hauled before a disciplinary meeting at which he was likely to be […] Media Coverage Press Room
February 24, 2021 Following ‘incessant anti-Semitic harassment,’ Tufts student calls on university to intervene (JNS) Jewish News Syndicate ~ BY MEIRA SVIRSKY AND SEAN SAVAGE ~ (February 23, 2021 / JNS) A Jewish student at Tufts University who claims that he has been the subject months-long campaign of anti-Semitic intimidation, harassment and discrimination is calling on the university to intervene. Max Price, a junior who is a member of the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ), […] Media Coverage Press Room