April 13, 2021 CUNY Student Senate Votes Down Resolution Endorsing IHRA (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal (April 12, 2021) The City University of New York’s (CUNY) University Student Senate (USS) voted down a resolution endorsing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism and another resolution supporting a watered-down definition of anti-Semitism after a five-hour debate. The resolution with the watered-down definition of anti-Semitism, which was being pushed […] Media Coverage Press Room
April 13, 2021 University of Illinois establishes the nation’s first Jewish student housing (JNS and Cleveland Jewish News) Cleveland Jewish News (April 12, 2021) ~ The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will open the country’s first university-affiliated housing option for Jewish students in the fall, reported The News-Gazette on Friday. The Illini Chabad property, a former fraternity house, will be available to both Jewish freshmen and upperclassmen, though non-Jewish students can live there as well. […] Media Coverage Press Room
April 8, 2021 Special Podcast: Holocaust Remembrance Day with Kenneth L. Marcus (INSS) Special Podcast: Holocaust Remembrance Day ~ In this INSS podcast, dedicated to Holocaust Remembrance Day, INSS researcher Adi Kantor sits down with Prof. Kenneth L. Marcus, founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, to discuss the issue of […] Media Coverage Press Room
April 8, 2021 A definition of anti-Semitism that defends anti-Semites by Mitchell Bard (JNS) JNS.org (April 7, 2021 / JNS) In the latest installment of Jews are our own worst enemies, a group of 211 professors have decided they should redefine anti-Semitism because they are not happy with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition. To justify their need for doing so, they have built a series of straw men, speciously contending the IHRA […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 31, 2021 Palestinian Accuses College Dems of Silencing Him for Supporting IHRA (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ By Aaron Bandler (March 31, 2021) ~ A Palestinian human rights activist accused the University of Minnesota (UMN) College Democrats of blocking him for expressing support for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. Bassem Eid, who is also a political analyst, wrote in a March 30 Times of Israel blog post that […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 30, 2021 Anti-Semites Should Not Define Anti-Semitism by Richard L. Cravatts (Times of Israel) Blog by Richard L Cravatts (Times of Israel) ~ March 30, 2021 As the 2016 Internal Holocaust Remembrance Association’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism continues to be adopted by organizations and universities who find it useful as a way of identifying instances of anti-Semitism—and especially the “new anti-Semitism” which couches itself as criticism of Israel—predictably, though […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 17, 2021 Addressing Antisemitism Within and Through the Educational Systems in the United States by Kenneth L. Marcus (INSS) Read the Article Here ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus ~ Special Publication, Contemporary Antisemitism in the United States – collection of articles, March 17, 2021 (INSS – Institute for National Security Studies) The challenge for educational systems in the United States is to address antisemitism both within and through education (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe [OSCE], 2018). […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 17, 2021 Politically driven show trials move from campus to culture, by Kenneth L. Marcus (Washington Examiner) Washington Examiner ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus (March 17, 2021 – Washington Examiner) ~ In The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin’s award-winning 2020 legal drama, activist Abbie Hoffman urges lawyer William Kunstler to recognize that “this is a political trial that was already decided for us. Ignoring that reality is just weird to me.” […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 16, 2021 University of Texas Student Gov’t Passes IHRA Resolution (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ By Aaron Bandler (Jewish Journal / March 16, 2021) The student government at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin unanimously passed a resolution endorsing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism on March 9. The resolution, which was obtained by the Journal, states that adopting IHRA became necessary following […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 9, 2021 Campus Bullies: The Extreme Right Aren’t the Only Ones With an Anti-Semitism Problem By Jeff Robbins Creators Syndicate (March 9, 2021) When Max Price was elected to Tufts University’s student judicial body, he likely didn’t expect to have to fight off a move to impeach him and remove him from office for being Jewish. And yet Price’s recent experience simply replicates the kind of crude anti-Semitic intimidation now so commonplace on […] Media Coverage Press Room
March 7, 2021 “Courage was the reason campus anti-Semites were beaten,” by Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) JNS.org (March 5, 2021 / JNS) It was a familiar story but with an unfamiliar conclusion. A Jewish student objected to the anti-Semitic slanders promoted by a student organization dedicated to Israel’s destruction. For his pains, he was targeted for harassment and then scheduled to be hauled before a disciplinary meeting at which he was likely to be […] Media Coverage Press Room
February 24, 2021 Following ‘incessant anti-Semitic harassment,’ Tufts student calls on university to intervene (JNS) Jewish News Syndicate ~ BY MEIRA SVIRSKY AND SEAN SAVAGE ~ (February 23, 2021 / JNS) A Jewish student at Tufts University who claims that he has been the subject months-long campaign of anti-Semitic intimidation, harassment and discrimination is calling on the university to intervene. Max Price, a junior who is a member of the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ), […] Media Coverage Press Room
February 23, 2021 Tufts student alleges antisemitism and harassment at university (Jewish Insider) Jewish Insider ~ By Melissa Weiss ~ February 23, 2021 A Tufts University student leader has accused the school of failing to protect him during “a months-long campaign of intimidation, harassment and discrimination” spearheaded by student government leaders and the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).Max Price, a junior at Tufts, is one of […] Media Coverage Press Room
February 22, 2021 Building an effective 9/11 commission for the Capitol riots by Kenneth L. Marcus (The Hill) The Hill ~ BY KENNETH L. MARCUS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/22/21 01:00 PM EST Now that the impeachment is over, the question is: what next? Some will say we should move on. But we cannot move on without a reckoning. This reckoning must determine the failures that led to the Capitol riot, prevent future crises and […] Media Coverage Press Room
February 17, 2021 Boosting BDS: A federal court decision that should be vacated by Nathan Lewin (JNS) JNS.org ~ By Nathan Lewin (February 17, 2021 / JNS) A federal appeals court has just issued a pernicious constitutional ruling that should promptly be voided. In March 2017, the Arkansas legislature, by a unanimous vote of its Senate and a 69-3 vote of its House, passed a law designed to deter boycotts against Israel. Copying the text of a […] Media Coverage Press Room
February 9, 2021 This was a hateful and Anti-Semitic act;” Student’s Israeli flag egged NEWS (WCIA.com) by: Jen Lask (WCIA.com) Posted: Feb 9, 2021 / 10:33 PM CST / Updated: Feb 9, 2021 / 10:40 PM CST CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Members of the University of Illinois’ Jewish community are on edge after a student said someone egged the Israeli flag hanging outside on his balcony. The incident happened early Monday morning just after 1:00. Jeremy […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 26, 2021 Who will defend Jewish students against anti-Semites? By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) JNS.org ~ By Jonathan S. Tobin ~ (January 25, 2021 / JNS) Following the U.S. Capitol riot, there has been a renewed emphasis on the threat from white-supremacist hate groups from the Biden administration, much of the media as well as the organized Jewish community. The anti-Semitic imagery seen at the rally organized by former President Donald Trump […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 15, 2021 Ten Surprising Highlights from OCR’s New Annual Report (The Federalist Society) The Federalist Society ~ Civil Rights Group ~ On January 13, the Trump Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which I headed earlier in the administration, released its Annual Report to the Secretary, the President, and the Congress for fiscal year 2020. In doing so, my successor, Acting Assistant Secretary Kimberly Richey, moved with impressive speed to […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 14, 2021 We don’t have adequate tools to combat domestic terrorism. Biden should change that. By Kenneth L. Marcus (JTA) We don’t have adequate tools to combat domestic terrorism. Biden should change that. by Kenneth L. Marcus JTA The Capitol riot should be a wake-up call for those who did not hear the alarm four years ago at Charlottesville. The riot wasn’t just an assault on the seat of America’s government, although it is surely that, […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 8, 2021 “Biden Has New Tools to Fight Anti-Semitism” by Kenneth L. Marcus (Jewish News Syndicate) Biden has new tools to fight anti-Semitism (JNS) JNS.org By Kenneth L. Marcus (January 8, 2021 / JNS) President-elect Joe Biden has two new tools that can help him in his professed priority to strengthen international ties, support human rights and combat anti-Semitism. The new tools play well to Biden’s foreign-relations experience and enduring belief in internationalism, which […] Media Coverage Press Room
January 5, 2021 Brandeis Center Appoints Judd A. Serotta to LDB Board of Directors Washington, D.C., January 5, 2021: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) is pleased to announce the return of Judd A. Serotta, Esq., to the Center’s Board of Directors. During LDB’s Annual Meeting, Mr. Serotta was appointed Secretary of the Corporation, a position that he had held during his prior stint on […] Media Coverage Press Room