Press Releases

This morning, the Regents of the University of California unanimously adopted a landmark set of Principles Against Intolerance. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law commends the Regents for this historic statement.

The campaign against campus anti-Semitism just took another step forward with the expansion of a major litigation initiative. This afternoon, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) announced the appointment of Jennie Gross to the position of Senior Staff Attorney.

The Brandeis Center is pleased to announce its contribution to the newly released edited volume, Antisemitism in North America: New World, Old Hate (Leiden: Brill, 2016).

This week, the Brandeis Center sent a letter to Vassar College President Catharine Bond Hill, urging Vassar to condemn recent anti-Semitic statements made by visiting Rutgers Professor Jasbir Puar. LDB is a national, non-profit civil rights organization that works to combat anti-Semitism in higher education through research, education, and legal advocacy.

This morning, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) announced its upcoming events for the month of March. This next wave of events will follow LDB’s Third Annual National Law Student Leadership Conference, held in California at the start of this week. LDB, a national civil rights organization, is best known for its work fighting anti-Semitism in higher education.

This afternoon, LDB announced topics and speakers for its Third Annual National Law Student Leadership Conference to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area later this month, culminating an extraordinary amount of LDB chapter activity at law schools around the country.

The Brandeis Center welcomes their newest team member, Alex Goldberg, who will be joining the organization for a Spring 2016 Communications & Development internship.

ouis D. Brandeis Center President Kenneth L. Marcus has contributed important scholarship on “The Ideology of the New Anti-Semitism” to Indiana University scholar Alvin Rosenfeld’s landmark new edited volume, Deciphering the New Antisemitism.

he Brandeis Center applauds San Jose State University’s (SJSU) Tower Foundation for voting not to divest from companies that do business with Israel but regrets that it permitted a discriminatory anti-Israel boycott to be brought forward for a vote.

Today, the Brandeis Center joined the AMCHA Initiative and 32 other organizations issuing a letter in response to a series of anti-Semitic stickers and flyers that were found at the University of Central Florida (UCF) campus.