October 9, 2018 LDB Chapter Launch Event – GMU School of Law On October 9, LDB’s Director of Legal Initiatives Aviva Vogelstein will speak at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law to launch LDB’s newest law student chapter. Vogelstein graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, magna cum laude, with a BA in American History, and from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2013. Events
October 3, 2018 Natasha Hausdorff, “Jerusalem & International Law” On Wednesday, October 3, Natasha Hausdorff will address the LDB Chapter at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on the topic, “Jerusalem & International Law.” Events
September 22, 2018 Anti-Israel Speech on Campus “U.S. Revives Rutgers Bias Case in New Tack on Anti-Semitism” (front page, Sept. 12) asserted that our organization, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, presses campuses to “squelch anti-Israel speech and activities” and urges “colleges and universities to discipline students who are part of the B.D.S. movement” (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions). Nothing could be further from the truth. Media Coverage Press Room
September 12, 2018 Rutgers to cooperate with U.S. Education Department’s reopening of anti-Semitism probe As reports of anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses rise, the U.S. Department of Education’s office of civil rights has reopened a probe, previously closed under President Barack Obama’s administration, of 2011 allegations that Rutgers University discriminated against Jewish students, the New York Times reported. Media Coverage Press Room
September 12, 2018 Trump’s Education Department weighs in on anti-Semitism case President Donald Trump’s Education Department has reopened an old discrimination case against Rutgers University and is revisiting what constitutes anti-Semitism. Media Coverage Press Room
September 12, 2018 New York Times smears Trump education official, downplays campus anti-Semitism Speaking truth to power in the age of Trump apparently means downplaying anti-Semitism. At least, that’s the takeaway from an indefensibly ugly article published this week by the New York Times. Media Coverage Press Room
August 1, 2018 Justice at Stoughton High School On July 19, an arbitrator found that Stoughton High School teacher Hilary Moll was wrongly suspended without pay by Stoughton Public Schools (“Stoughton”), for her response to an anti-Semitic incident at the high school. Press Releases Press Room
July 24, 2018 L.A. City Attorney Mulls Prosecution of Anti-Israel Disruptors of UCLA Event It began as yet another frustrating example of a university refusing to take swift action in a case of aggressive disruption of a pro-Israel event. The belligerent shutdown of a Students Supporting Israel panel discussion occurred at UCLA on May 17, 2018. Media Coverage Press Room
July 14, 2018 Another Win for LDB Against ASA’s Illegal Boycott of Israel By confirming subject matter jurisdiction, a United States federal judge has again allowed the lawsuit brought by professors against the American Studies Association (ASA) for its boycott of Israeli universities and academic institutions to proceed. Press Releases Press Room
June 28, 2018 10,000 reasons to protect students from religious bullying Choking a Muslim student with her hijab. Punching a Sikh boy wearing a turban. Burning a Jewish boy with hot wax. A just-released Department of Education report found that an alarming 10,848 incidents of religiously-motivated bullying and harassment took place in U.S. public schools during 2015-16. Media Coverage Press Room