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
January 27, 2022 “Global anti-Semitism reaches nearly all 10 stages of genocide,” by Kenneth L. Marcus (JNS) Jewish News Syndicate ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus ~ (January 27, 2022 / JNS) On Jan. 27, we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, honoring the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide, as well as the millions of other victims who were persecuted during that era. This remembrance will be meaningless, however, if we do not seriously […] Press Room Op-Eds
January 17, 2022 Colleyville Poses an Urgent Question: Will Biden Take Antisemitism Seriously? | Opinion by Kenneth L. Marcus (Newsweek) Newsweek By Kenneth L. Marcus, Chairman, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law ~ 1/17/22 at 8:32 am EST Saturday’s Congregation Beth Israel kidnapping in Colleyville, Texas, holds important lessons for federal policymakers. Yet based on early reports, it appears that these lessons are falling on deaf ears, as federal authorities misconstrue what […] Op-Eds Press Room
December 23, 2021 The lessons of humility by Kenneth L. Marcus (Washington Examiner) Washington Examiner ~ December 23, 2021 12:01 AM By KENNETH MARCUS For many people, humility is a message of the season. On Christmas, some like to recall from Philippians 2:8 that Jesus “humbled himself,” becoming “obedient to the point of death.” For some Jews like myself, Hanukkah also teaches humility. The Maccabees who drove Assyrians […] Op-Eds Press Room
December 23, 2021 Good News in the Fight Against Antisemitism by Kenneth L. Marcus (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus, December 23, 2021 ~ At this time of year-end recollections, we cannot forget that antisemitism has reached historic levels this year, including attacks on Jews in the streets of Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Southern Florida. But the year has not been entirely bleak. There has been good news. The fight against antisemitism is […] Op-Eds Press Room
October 28, 2021 Like EU, the US must adopt a strategy to combat antisemitism | Opinion (Sun Sentinel) SunSentinel ~ By L. Rachel Lerman and Diane Kunz | OCT 27, 2021 AT 8:43 AM ~ Last May, Jews around the world faced some of the worst antisemitic attacks since World War II. In Europe and the United States, Jews were beaten and threatened with murder. While the Israeli defensive actions in Gaza were the ostensible […] Op-Eds Press Room