Media Coverage

Published by Inside Higher Ed on 11/27/24 Occidental College has settled with two nonprofit organizations focused on combating antisemitism over a federal Office for Civil Rights complaint that the campus was a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students in the weeks and months following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.  Under the settlement, reached with […]

Published by the Jewish Journal on 11/26/24 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law reached a settlement agreement with Occidental College over a Title VI complaint filed to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) alleging that the college failed to properly address antisemitic incidents on campus. […]

Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/26/24. In response to a federal Title VI complaint filed against Occidental College in April alleging a “hostile environment” for Jewish and Israeli students, the Los Angeles-based private liberal arts college agreed on Tuesday to implement a series of initiatives to mend the campus climate, including the adoption of […]

Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/26/2024 With just under two months left in office, Biden administration appointees are making wish lists of what they hope to achieve in the limited time they have left.  At the Department of Education, Catherine Lhamon, the assistant secretary for civil rights, knows she won’t make it through her […]

Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/15/2024 Two Senate Republicans wrote to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Thursday, raising concerns about federal funding for Middle East studies allegedly provided to anti-Israel professors on college campuses. The letter, from Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) focused on National Resource Centers and Foreign Language Area Studies […]

Published by The Algemeiner on 11/11/2024 A lawsuit accusing Harvard University of ignoring antisemitism has been cleared to proceed to discovery, a phase of the case which may unearth damaging revelations about how college officials discussed and crafted policy responses to anti-Jewish hatred before and after Hamas’s massacre across southern Israel last Oct. 7. The […]

Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/8/2024 Brandeis Center founder Ken Marcus: ‘We know that this is an issue that is going to be prominent on the agenda of the incoming administration’ President-elect Donald Trump ran on a promise that, if reelected, U.S. universities would lose accreditation and federal support over the unprecedented level of […]

Published by the Jewish News Syndicate on 11/7/2024 The Brandeis Center, which is suing the university, called the decision a “huge win for Jewish students.” Richard Stearns, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled on Tuesday that a Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law suit against […]

Published by the Jewish Insider on 11/5/2024. A federal lawsuit against Harvard University that alleges the school has ignored the harassment of Jewish students for more than a year is set to begin after a U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday rejected Harvard’s request for dismissal, but denied claims that the school directly discriminated against Jewish and […]

Published by Inside Higher Ed on 11/1/2024 House Republicans lambasted private elite colleges and some state flagship universities for how they’ve handled pro-Palestinian protests in a new report in which they argue that antisemitism has engulfed college campuses and administrators prioritized “terrorist sympathizers” over the Jewish community.  In the scathing 325-page report released Thursday, Republicans on House Education and […]

Published by JNS on 10/31/2024 A federal court in Texas signaled on Tuesday that it intends to roll back measures taken by the state’s universities to protect Jews on campus. In March, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed an executive order, GA-44, instructing the state’s public universities to include the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working […]

Published on 10/4/24 by the Jewish Journal The Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announced on Oct. 1 that they have filed a complaint to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) against the University of Washington (UW) for failing to properly address “rampant” antisemitism on campus. The complaint notes that […]

Published on 10/2/24 by NBC News University of Pittsburgh students Asher Goodwin and Ilan Gordon were walking to the first Shabbat service of the school year on Aug. 30 wearing yarmulkes. As they made their way to the campus Hillel building, they said, an older man wearing a keffiyeh approached them from behind and started […]

Published on 10/1/24 by KOMO News SEATTLE — The University of Washington is now the subject of a civil rights complaint filed on behalf of Jewish students. The complaint was filed by the Brandeis Center on Sept. 24. It starts by saying”Jewish students at the University of Washington (“UW” or “the University”) have been subjected to […]

Publish on 9/30/24 by CBS News BOSTON – A helpline has been launched in K-12 schools in Massachusetts to provide pro-bono legal assistance to parents whose children are experiencing antisemitism. The helpline was created by the Anti-Defamation League along with Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and StandWithUs.  Peggy Shukur is Vice President of […]

Published by The Free Press on 9/23/24 For the last seven years, the New York State Writers Institute has held an annual book festival at the University at Albany. It’s where notable authors come together and discuss big ideas like climate change, feminism, and immigration. But this year, the festival, which was held on Saturday, […]

Published by the New York Post on 9/19/24 Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong was slammed by members of the school’s Jewish community after she apologized to anyone who felt “hurt” by the administration’s decision to clear out the campus’ destructive anti-Israel protests last spring.  Dr. Armstrong issued the mea culpa in an interview with the Ivy […]

Published by the Washington Examiner on 9/19/24 Wikipedia has come under fire after replacing its entry on Zionism, the idea that Jewish people have a right to self-determination and statehood in their ancestral homeland of Israel, with a “wildly inaccurate” description that characterizes Zionists as “coloniz[ers].” The new entry also questions whether Ashkenazi Jews are actually Jewish, despite the […]