February 1, 2018 Jewish and civil rights groups urge Congress to prevent abuse of federal education funds Late last week, more than a dozen Jewish and civil rights groups lobbied Congress to stop an abuse of federal education funds under a law related to higher education. Media Coverage Press Room
January 31, 2018 Brandeis Center Backs Suspended Swastika-Hating Stoughton Teacher The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is again criticizing Stoughton school officials for their handling of an incident involving a student drawing a swastika. The national non-profit has called on the school district to rescind their disciplinary actions against Stoughton High School teacher Hillary Moll, who was suspended without pay following the incident. Media Coverage Press Room
January 30, 2018 Advocacy Groups: Federally-Funded Mideast Studies Centers Being Misused for Anti-Israel ‘Indoctrination’ Fourteen prominent Jewish and advocacy groups urged a key Senate committee to reform the Higher Education Act (HEA), which they claim is being “misused to promote biased, one-sided, and anti-Israel programming in our nation’s Middle East studies centers.” Media Coverage Press Room
January 29, 2018 In Defense of Kenneth Marcus Kenneth L. Marcus has been nominated to direct the Office of Civil rights in the United States Department of Education, based on his extensive experience as a civil rights attorney and a legal scholar. Marcus has held an endowed chair in Equality and Justice in America at Baruch College, served as staff director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and as Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights under President George W. Bush. Media Coverage Press Room
January 26, 2018 Robbins: Dems’ vote against Marcus worrisome At last month’s Senate hearing on the nomination of civil rights lawyer Ken Marcus to be the Education Department’s assistant secretary for civil rights, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) praised Marcus for his advocacy on behalf of a Virginia Tech student threatened by a white supremacist working for the university. Media Coverage Press Room
January 19, 2018 Senate Committee Advances Nomination of Kenneth Marcus to Top Civil Rights Post in Education Department A key Senate committee advanced the nomination of Kenneth Marcus to a top civil rights post in the Department of Education on Thursday, clearing him for a final confirmation round. Media Coverage Press Room
January 16, 2018 Education Department nominee Ken Marcus: a case study of the new anti-Semitism When I was a child, having been born in the 1950s under the shadow of the Holocaust, I had naively thought anti-Semitism was mostly a thing of the past that vanished in the gas chambers and ovens of Auschwitz. Yet within the past few decades, I have witnessed anti-Semitism blossom into a socially acceptable hatred that has managed to make its way into the corridors of polite society in a fashion that is as overt, obvious and unconcealed as it is alarming. Media Coverage Press Room
January 16, 2018 Dozens of Advocacy Groups Endorse Jewish Nominee for Top Education Department Civil Rights Post Dozens of advocacy groups on Monday called for the confirmation of Kenneth Marcus — a leading figure in efforts to combat campus antisemitism — to a prominent civil rights post at the US Department of Education. Media Coverage Press Room
January 12, 2018 South Carolina Governor Urges Passage of Bill to Counter Campus Antisemitism South Carolina’s governor urged his state’s Senate on Wednesday to pass legislation designed to counter campus antisemitism in time for signing on International Holocaust Remembrance Day later this month. Media Coverage Press Room
January 10, 2018 Impeccable civil rights credentials: Confirm Kenneth L. Marcus Confirmation battles that pit one party’s nominee for federal office against senators from the opposition party long have been spectator sport in Washington. But when extremists from the nominee’s own party attack, well now, there’s a “man bites dog” story. Media Coverage Press Room
January 9, 2018 SPME BDS Monitor: Outrage on Jerusalem In December, the most important BDS-related developments came in the wake of the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Media Coverage Press Room
December 23, 2017 Bal Harbour’s anti-Semitism definition ordinance gets overwhelming support Bal Harbour Mayor Gabriel Groisman describes the support he’s received from the South Florida community regarding the recent passage of the village’s anti-Semitism definition ordinance, which expands police officers’ ability to investigate such anti-Semitic incidents as hate crimes, as overwhelming. Media Coverage Press Room
December 20, 2017 Why Can’t American Students Show Common Sense on Antisemitism? Supported by antisemitic faculty who seek to redefine Jew hatred in such a way that excludes themselves, American students seem to be unable and unwilling to accept the definition of antisemitism. They should take a cue from their peers in Australia, who condemned antisemitism and pledged to counter its rise on university campuses. Media Coverage Press Room
December 17, 2017 Action Alert: Anti-Israel Lobby intensifies campaign against nomination of anti-Semitism scholar Ken Marcus Last week the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee concluded its hearings regarding the confirmation of Kenneth L. Marcus, President Trump’s pick for the position of Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights. Media Coverage Press Room
December 14, 2017 Hate has less of a home at Rutgers It turns out that anti-Semitic Facebook posts have consequences. On Friday, two months after a blog called IsraeliCool first reported the anti-Semitic social media habits of Rutgers professor Dr. Michael Chikindas, the university’s leaders announced that they were taking action. Media Coverage Press Room
December 13, 2017 Hearing Puts Civil Rights, Special Education Nominees on Hot Seat Democrats on the Senate education committee had some tough questions for President Donald Trump’s picks to head up civil rights and special education policy at the U.S. Department of Education as the members vetted them for confirmation. Media Coverage Press Room
December 13, 2017 Campus Antisemitism and Pseudo-Intellectual Complicity n recent decades, academics promoting pseudo intellectual studies have sought to advance the notion that antisemitism in the contemporary context, and specifically on college and university campuses, is a mere illusion, created by a group of alarmists,” attempting to exaggerate the severity of threats against the Jewish community. Media Coverage Press Room
December 13, 2017 U.S. Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing for LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus Brandeis Center President and General Counsel, Kenneth L. Marcus, has been nominated for the role of Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education. On December 5, Mr. Marcus appeared in front of the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) for a hearing on his nomination. In his opening statement to the Committee, […] Media Coverage Press Room
December 12, 2017 Antisemitism @ VT Did antisemitism somehow become a job prerequisite in academia? “We are horrified by the reports that we are hearing from Virginia Tech students,” Jennifer Gross, an attorney with the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law says. “The problem is not just that Virginia Tech employs an avowed white supremacist as a graduate student instructor and that many undergraduate students are required to take his course.” Media Coverage Press Room
December 11, 2017 Breach of Duty or Legal Overreach? It’s been almost four years since members of the American Studies Association voted by a nearly two-thirds majority to adopt a resolution backing a boycott of Israeli universities, but a lawsuit opposing the resolution filed by four of the association’s current and former members rages on. Media Coverage Press Room
December 2, 2017 Why Anti-Semites Oppose the Marcus Nomination Kenneth Marcus, founder, president and general counsel for the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, has dedicated most of his career to fighting for civil rights. Media Coverage Press Room