Media Coverage

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 […]

Published by Free Beacon on 08/20/2025 The University of California, Berkeley rescinded a job offer to a visiting Israeli professor solely because of her national origin, according to a new lawsuit. Though the professor, Dr. Yael Nativ, taught a course at the school prior to Oct. 7, Berkeley’s theater department chair said campus was too “hot” […]

Published by SD Jewish World on 08/20/2025 The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the law firm of Olivier & Schreiber PC sued the University of California (UC) Berkeley on Wednesday in California Superior Court, alleging the school violated California anti-discrimination laws when it rejected the teaching application of a professor solely because she […]

Published by The Washington Times on 08/20/2025 Job candidates rarely find out why they were rejected, but Yael Nativ says she knows exactly why she wasn’t rehired by the University of California, Berkeley: She’s Israeli. A university investigation determined that Ms. Nativ, a dance researcher and sociologist, was turned down for a second stint as […]

Published by The Free Press on 08/20/2025 In the spring of 2022, Yael Nativ taught an Israeli contemporary dance class as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. It went so well, she said, that she was encouraged to come back in the future. In August 2023, she submitted an application to teach the same […]

Published by Daily Caller on 08/27/2025 The Brandeis Center filed a lawsuit against the University of California (UC) Berkeley for allegedly denying a professor’s job application because she is Israeli. Dr. Yael Nativ was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley in 2022 and was invited by fellow professors at the university to apply for another visiting position […]

Published by JNS on 08/27/2025 The University of California, Berkeley, is facing a lawsuit alleging it violated state antidiscrimination laws when it rejected an Israeli professor’s teaching application because of her nationality. The suit was filed on Wednesday in California Superior Court by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the […]

Published by J Weekly on 08/7/2025 Last fall, Lee Miller, a special education teacher at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, checked his work email after class and suddenly felt sick to his stomach. United Educators of San Francisco, the teachers union that Miller belonged to, had emailed a flyer to members promoting an “international […]

Published by The New York Times on 8/6/2025 To show they are serious about stamping out campus antisemitism, some of the nation’s top universities are adding a powerful position to their administrative ranks. The position has a modest sounding title: Title VI coordinator. The responsibilities, however, are significant: to oversee and ensure compliance with Title VI […]