October 9, 2022 Berkeley’s Jewish-Free Zones Are Worse Than You Think, by Kenneth L. Marcus (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus ~ October 9, 2022 Berkeley’s Jewish-Free Zones Are Worse Than You Think Berkeley Law’s students have institutionalized an ancient ideology of hate, incorporating it into the legal DNA of their major identity groups. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) For all the resistance that Berkeley’s enablers have generated, the facts are […] Op-Eds Press Room
October 4, 2022 Kenneth L. Marcus Featured on FoxNews Coverage of UC Berkeley Law School’s “Jewish Free Zones” In a new ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ segment Brandeis Center Founder and Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus discusses the action of nine UC Berkley School of Law student groups to bar Zionist speakers. Watch the video clip below, where Mr. Marcus says: “Antisemitism on college campuses has gotten both worse and different… [T]he latest battle in anti-Semitism on campus […] Op-Eds Press Room
October 4, 2022 “Is the Tide at Berkeley Beginning to Turn?” by Kenneth L. Marcus (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ Kenneth L. Marcus ~ October 4, 2022 Is the Tide at Berkeley Beginning to Turn? At long last, under pressure, Berkeley Law’s Dean is pledging to enforce Berkeley’s anti-discrimination rules against any of these nine organizations that act upon their new bylaw provisions. He must be held to it. Students walk near […] Op-Eds Press Room
October 4, 2022 Accountability required from Berkeley Law — before the water begins to boil (JWeekly) ~ Published in J Weekly on October 4, 2022 by Kenneth L. Marcus ~ .Berkeley Law professors Ron Hassner and Ethan Katz are less disturbed by what they call the “nakedly discriminatory” activities at their law school than by my article, which has put a national spotlight on their school. In their Oct. 3 op-ed in […] Op-Eds Press Room
September 28, 2022 Kenneth Marcus: UVM’s president is making a bad problem worse (VT Digger) Op-ed authored by Kenneth L. Marcus in Vermont Digger; published on September 25, 2022. . University of Vermont President Suresh V. Garimella recently presented a master class on how not to address civil rights violations. When the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into systemic anti-Semitism at his university, Garimella responded with a harsh […] Op-Eds Press Room
September 20, 2022 General Counsel Rachel Lerman Appears on the Portia Project Podcast On August 29, 2022, Brandeis Center General Counsel and Vice Chair Rachel Lerman appeared on the Portia Project podcast. In the series 46th episode, Lerman discusses the start of her legal journey, the different positions she has held in her legal career, and her work at the Brandeis Center. The Portia Project podcast interviews different […] Op-Eds Press Room
September 2, 2022 OCR sends message on anti-Semitism (The Hill) By Kenneth L. Marcus, opinion contributor to The Hill . Days ago, the U.S. Education Department’s civil rights office, OCR, resolved a major anti-Semitism case at Kyrene School District #28 in Arizona. Not only did OCR call out anti-Semitism in this one school district, it used this primary school case to fire a shot across the bow […] Op-Eds Press Room
June 22, 2022 Liberated Ethnic Studies Group Aims to End-run Newsom Law (Jewish Journal) Op-ed by Brandeis Center Vice Chair L. Rachel Lerman published in Jewish Journal on June 21, 2022. . Los Angeles parents and teachers recently announced they are suing the Los Angeles Unified School District teachers’ union to keep antisemitism out of California high schools. How and why would antisemitism ever be taught and promoted in […] Op-Eds Press Room
June 21, 2022 Biden administration races to co-opt the powerful ‘parental rights’ movement (Washington Times) Opinion article by Kenneth L. Marcus published June 20, 2022 in the Washington Times. . Last week, the Biden administration announced the creation of a new National Parents and Families Engagement Council. The press release trumpets that the council’s purpose is to strengthen relations between parents and schools. No sophisticated observer believes that this is true. […] Op-Eds Press Room
June 21, 2022 This Juneteenth, parents need the right to speak up about school curriculum (Fox News) Opinion by Kenneth L. Marcus published on FoxNews.com, June 20, 2022. . A father has sued his daughter’s posh L.A. Brentwood School, alleging “bait and switch” and civil rights violations. The school had responded to George Floyd’s murder by ditching its values – its traditional curriculum – in favor of an anti-racist perspective. Harper Lee’s To […] Op-Eds Press Room