Op-Eds

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Newsweek ~ Nathan Lewin and Alyza Lewin, Lewin & Lewin, LLP (October 14, 2021) ~ Many consider the Biden administration’s oft-expressed intent to open a U.S. consulate-general in Jerusalem a minor administrative change. In fact, it is a dangerous resurrection of a fiction that dominated American attitudes and policy toward Israel for decades. It is nothing less […]

Response to Ronald J. Daniels ~ We are pleased that, in response to my Sept. 30 essay, “Johns Hopkins must live up to its ideals,” JHU President Ronald J. Daniels has finally written with appropriate forcefulness that Johns Hopkins takes antisemitism seriously. Daniels’ Oct. 1 letter improves on the rote, vague denunciations of anti-Semitism and racism that JHU […]

The Washington Post ~ Opinion by Kenneth L. Marcus (September 30, 2021 at 3:22 p.m. EDT) Johns Hopkins University recently extended the record-breaking tenure of its longest-serving president, Ronald J. Daniels. Under Daniels, Johns Hopkins has prospered, buoyed by the landmark $1.8 billion gift from alumnus Mike Bloomberg. As important, under Daniels, the university has hued […]

JNS ~ Kenneth L. Marcus – September 20, 2021 ~ (September 20, 2021 / JNS) The United Nations will hold a major international convening on Sept. 22 to mark the 20th anniversary of its World Conference Against Racism, held in Durban, South Africa in 2001. In many ways, that conference has marked us more than we mark it. For […]