June 15, 2022 Morningstar drops anti-Israel tool, but is it enough? (Jerusalem Post) Authored by LDB Vice Chair L. Rachel Lerman and published in Jerusalem Post on June 14, 2022. . Multi-billion-dollar investment firm Morningstar announced it will discontinue using a product employed by its subsidiary, Sustainalytics, to rate a company’s commitment to corporate responsibility. The decision comes after an independent investigation deemed the product biased against Israel. . […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 31, 2022 Will President Biden Blink at Anti-Semitism at NYU? (New York Sun) Opinion article by Kenneth L. Marcus published May 28, 2022 in the New York Sun The Biden administration will face at the end of the month a test. New York University is nearing the end of its monitoring period under its settlement of a federal antisemitism complaint filed during the Trump administration. The Biden administration will be […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 29, 2022 My Fellow Jewish Americans, Happy Rodney Dangerfield Month (South Florida Sun Sentinel) Opinion Article by Kenneth L. Marcus, published May 28, 2022 in the South Florida Sun Sentinel . Let me be the first to wish you a Happy Jewish American Heritage Month. The month is almost over. Nevertheless, Reader, I know I am the first to greet you. . Proclaimed by President George W. Bush in […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 19, 2022 “The Buffalo Massacre Was More Than Meets the Eye,” by Kenneth L. Marcus (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus | May 19, 2022 ~ The Buffalo Massacre Was More Than Meets the Eye No matter how you look at it, this brutal act was horrific. Beyond the immediate victims, the shooting has spread terror throughout America, especially in Buffalo’s Black community. Kenneth L. Marcus Photo by Scott […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 13, 2022 New York Sun: Affirmative Action After the Court’s Abortion Decision As the Harvard case demonstrates, elite universities have taken Supreme Court decisions as license to conduct racially preferential admissions decisions. . OPINION by Kenneth L. Marcus in the New York Sun, May 13, 2022 . Buried in the leaked Supreme Court draft abortion opinion, Justice Samuel Alito discusses “workability.” He explains the court should consider […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 13, 2022 WaPo: Georgetown’s double bind Opinion by Kenneth L. Marcus in The Washington Post, May 13, 2022 . One day before Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), the Georgetown University Law Center hosted a well-attended event featuring notorious antisemitic conspiracy theorist Mohammed El-Kurd. El-Kurd is infamous for promoting the modern-day “blood libel” against Jews. He cloaks his antisemitic rants as criticism of Israel, claiming Israeli Jews “harvest […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 10, 2022 Federal courts shouldn’t force Texas to subsidize discrimination, by Kenneth L. Marcus (Washington Times) Washington Times ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus – – Monday, May 9, 2022 ~ Federal courts shouldn’t force Texas to subsidize discrimination OPINION: Must Texas taxpayers subsidize antisemitism? Strangely enough, a federal district court required them to do so. Days ago the federal court of appeals began reviewing the legality of the lower court’s decision. […] Op-Eds Press Room
April 14, 2022 Kenneth L. Marcus in Newsweek: ‘The Toxic Culture That Produced the Subway Shooter Is All Around Us’ Opinion published in Newsweek, 4/14/22 . Suspected Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James may have acted alone. But if it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an entire culture to create a mass-murder. Ours can take full credit here. The toxic ideas that consumed James are all around us. . James is a […] Op-Eds Press Room
March 3, 2022 Corporations must ban both racism and antiracism by Kenneth L. Marcus (The Washington Times) The Washington Times ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus | Wednesday, March 2, 2022 ~ OPINION: Florida legislation to ban antiracist indoctrination recently passed the House and is now headed to the state senate. It is not alone. Around the country, over 120 bills to ban such practices have been introduced in state legislatures, but most have […] Op-Eds Press Room
February 9, 2022 What CUNY can learn from Whoopi Goldberg by Kenneth L. Marcus (NY Daily News) NY Daily News ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus, Feb 9, 2022 ~ Last week the U.S. Department of Education announced it had opened an investigation into allegations that professors advanced the racist and ethnic stereotype that Jews are “white” and “privileged” and therefore oppress people of color, ignoring centuries of Jewish discrimination and invoking an age-old and […] Op-Eds Press Room