Media Coverage

Published by Jewish Insider on 10/30/2025 Responding to historic levels of antisemitism in the U.S., the Anti-Defamation League and Gibson Dunn LLP announced on Wednesday a new joint network offering pro bono legal assistance to victims of antisemitic incidents. The new initiative joins an already crowded space of Jewish groups offering legal services, including the […]

Published by the Daily Pennsylvanian on 10/23/2025 The Brandeis Center filed an amicus brief on Wednesday urging a federal court to reverse the dismissal of a lawsuit which accused Penn of insufficiently responding to antisemitism on campus. The Oct. 22 brief — submitted by a Jewish legal rights advocacy group in the 3rd United States Circuit Court […]

Published by Variety on 10/16/2025 Warner Bros. Discovery has responded to a legal letter regarding calls for a boycott of Israeli film institutions, acknowledging such a pledge would likely violate its internal policies.  “Warner Bros. Discovery is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful environment for its employees, collaborators, and other stakeholders,” a spokesperson for WBD […]

Published by JFeed on 10/9/2025 In EXCLUSIVE interview to JFeed, Mr. Rory Lancman, Director of Corporate Initiatives and Senior Counsel at the Brandeis Center, expose the developments of the Hollywood boycott to the “Israeli Blacklist”. A major American Jewish civil rights organization has directly confronted the US film industry, sending a forceful legal warning to major studios, talent […]

Published by JNS on 10/1/2025 Organizations and professionals within the U.S. film industry would be violating federal and state antidiscrimination laws if they follow through with a boycott of the Israeli film industry, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law stated on Wednesday. In a letter sent to top studios, distributors, platforms, talent agencies […]

Published by Campus Reform on 9/22/2025 A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher is suing the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, alleging he was harassed and ultimately fired because of his Jewish and Israeli identity. According to the complaint, students and his supervising professor shunned him, used anti-Semitic slurs, and eventually pushed him out of the lab […]

Published by the NY Post on 9/15/2025 Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani said he would drop a Holocaust remembrance group’s definition of “antisemitism” if he becomes mayor — a turnaround in police that has some Jewish rights advocates on edge. Mamdani confirmed he would oppose the definition used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance if he becomes mayor, […]

Published by JNS on 09/11/2025 The University of Massachusetts Amherst has barred an academic group that plans to hold a conference later this fall on its campus from excluding scholars who receive funding from Israeli institutions. The Coalition of Women in German, an organization based at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, is scheduled […]

Published by Times of Israel on 09/10/2025 The University of Massachusetts Amherst on Wednesday said it had banned an anti-Israel boycott at an upcoming academic conference, a move a Jewish legal advocacy group hailed as a precedent in the struggle against anti-Zionist activity on campuses. The annual conference, hosted by the Coalition of Women in […]

Published by JNS on 09/4/2025 Adelphi University stated on Aug. 15 that an investigation found “sufficient evidence” that one of the private, Garden City, N.Y. school’s professors “created a hostile environment for Adelphi’s Jewish community” via the professor’s “personal social media posts.” The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announcedthe university’s decision on […]

Published by JNS on 09/3/2025 The University of Massachusetts Amherst, a highly ranked public school, is reviewing an upcoming conference that it plans to host in November after learning that the organizer excludes scholars who receive funding from Israeli institutions. “The university has the matter under review,” Emily Gest, associate vice chancellor for news and […]

Published by JNS on 08/27/2025 The Jewish Federations of North America and Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations led 13 other Jewish groups in a letter to Senate leaders on Tuesday, asking the upper chamber to confirm Trump administration nominees for two key U.S. State Department positions. The groups asked Senate Majority Leader […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 08/27/2025 Several major Jewish organizations are expected to call on the Senate to “swiftly” confirm President Donald Trump’s nominees for special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism and international religious freedom ambassador.  The groups, led by the Jewish Federations of North America, are writing in a letter to Senate Majority […]

Published by JNS on 08/22/2025 Many Jewish students and staff, both at K-12 schools and on university campuses, have become the targets of threats, intimidation and violence since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023—leading to lawsuits, funding and donation cuts, and a host of new regulations to protect students and […]

Published by Jerusalem Post on 08/21/2025 A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday against the University of California (UC) Berkeley, alleging that it violated state anti-discrimination laws when it rejected a teaching application submitted by an Israeli professor because of her nationality. The lawsuit was filed in California Superior Court – the state-level court where cases are first […]