August 13, 2021 Join us for “The Legal Battle Against Campus Anti-Semitism” on September 1 @ 7 pm (ET) Watch the Webinar Here! Our Summer Speaker Series concludes with a discussion on “The Legal Battle Against Campus Anti-Semitism” featuring LDB attorneys, Kenneth L. Marcus, Alyza D. Lewin and Denise Katz-Prober. Events
August 9, 2021 “Why we filed a discrimination complaint against Stanford” by Ronald Albucher and Sheila Levin (The Stanford Daily) The Stanford Daily ~ From The Community | Why we filed a discrimination complaint against Stanford by Ronald Albucher and Sheila Levin ~ Ronald Albucher is a psychiatrist and former CAPS director. Sheila Levin is a former clinical care manager for CAPS and an eating disorder specialist.The two filed complaints in June with state and federal civil […] Media Coverage Press Room
August 6, 2021 Jewish advocacy groups demand action from Hopkins concerning TA’s tweets (The News-Letter) The Johns Hopkins News-Letter ~ By MIN-SEO KIM | August 6, 2021 ~ Earlier this year, the Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) began an investigation into Rasha Anayah, a graduate student and teaching assistant (TA) for Applied Chemical Equilibrium and Reactivity with Lab, after reports surfaced that several of her tweets targeted Zionist and Jewish students. In the […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 30, 2021 Kenneth Marcus on How the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism Helps the Government Protect Civil Rights (The Tikvah Podcast) Kenneth Marcus on How the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism Helps the Government Protect Civil Rights The Tikvah PodcastWith anti-Semitism on the rise over the last few years, it is essential for institutions to be able to assess clearly whether an incident is anti-Semitic or not. For this purpose, over the last two decades many governments, […] Events
July 29, 2021 Amid increasingly hostile campus environment, CAMERA teaches strategies to combat anti-Israel hate (JNS) JNS.org ~ by JNS Staff, July 28, 2021 ~ Dozens of college students from the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and elsewhere gathered online for the annual CAMERA on Campus conference aimed at empowering young adults to be advocates for Israel in an increasingly hostile environment. As speaker, professor and author Gil Troy told […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 27, 2021 Are the anti-BDS laws aimed at Ben & Jerry’s constitutional? (The Forward) The Forward ~ By Arno Rosenfeld [July 27, 2021, The Forward] The Arkansas Times, a small monthly in Little Rock, hasn’t written a single article about Ben & Jerry’s recent decision to end sales in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Yet despite running a newspaper that he called “about as local and provincial as you can be,” publisher Alan Leveritt is […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 23, 2021 Will US anti-BDS laws cause a financial meltdown for Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever? (JNS) Cleveland Jewish News [by Sean Savage, July 22, 2021] The recent announcement that Ben & Jerry’s plans to end its sale of ice-cream in “occupied Palestinian territory,” primarily Judea and Samaria as well as eastern Jerusalem, has stirred a fierce reaction, including potential legal and financial repercussions for the ice-cream maker and its parent company […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 19, 2021 Jewish groups calls for Johns Hopkins to break silence on TA’s anti-Semitic posts (Campus Reform) Campus Reform Ben Zeisloft | Student Editor (Friday, July 16, 2021 2:30 PM) ~ Johns Hopkins University is not seriously addressing a teaching assistant’s anti-Semitic posts that indicated she may give Jewish students failing grades. That accusation comes from groups such as StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. Both […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 16, 2021 Whatever happened to that John Hopkins teaching assistant who wanted to punish ‘Zionist students?’ (The Forward) The Forward Whatever happened to that John Hopkins teaching assistant who wanted to punish ‘Zionist students?’ by Stewart Ain (Forward ~ July 15, 2021) Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has reportedly concluded its investigation into the actions of a teaching assistant who asked in a tweet last Nov. 15 if she could lower the grade […] Media Coverage Press Room
July 15, 2021 Jewish groups send letter to Johns Hopkins demanding more action over antisemitism allegations (Baltimore Jewish Times) Baltimore Jewish Times ~ By Jesse Berman July 14, 2021 ~ A July 9 letter addressed to administrators of Johns Hopkins University is demanding new action be taken some eight months after a Johns Hopkins teaching assistant created a social media post viewed as antisemitic. In November 2020, a teaching assistant, under the Twitter account […] Media Coverage Press Room