August 7, 2025 S.F. union fights Jewish teacher who won back his dues over its anti-Israel activity (J Weekly) 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 […] Media Coverage
August 6, 2025 Trump Amps Up an Obama Strategy to Crack Down on Colleges (New York Times) 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 […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 ‘Decolonizing Therapy’ and the erasure of Jewish identity in mental health (Jerusalem Post) Published by the Jerusalem Post on 7/29/25 Antisemitism is becoming increasingly more prevalent within therapy and therapeutic spaces. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law recently wrote about antisemitic incidents within the mental health sphere, including a Washington, DC-based therapist who refused to see a Jewish patient who had recently moved to the […] Media Coverage Highlights
August 5, 2025 ‘All of Our Strength’: Over 1,000 Pro-Israel Activists Gather in DC for Solidarity Conference (Algemeiner) Published by the Algemeiner on 7/29/25 Over 1,000 Jewish students, faculty, and activists amassed in Washington, DC on July 27-29 to attend the Israel on Campus Coalition’s annual National Leadership Summit (NLS), an electric event which achieved creating the atmosphere of both a festival of Jewish elation and an academic conference. Founded in 2002, the […] Media Coverage Highlights
August 5, 2025 Ivy League universities paid hundreds of millions to settle with Trump. Is UCLA next? (LA Times) Published in the Los Angeles Times on 8/2/25 University of California leaders face a difficult choice after the U.S. Department of Justice said this week that UCLA had violated the civil rights of Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests and federal agencies on Wednesday suspended more than $300 million in research grants to the school. Do they agree […] Media Coverage Highlights
August 5, 2025 California School District Rules Teacher Accused of Antisemitism Violated Policy (Algemeiner) Published by Algemeiner on 08/5/2025 A California school district which stands accused of refusing to address antisemitism has ruled that a teacher who allegedly showed her students antisemitic, discriminatory, and biased content violated policy when she screened an offensive video about the Holocaust in her classroom. The move, taken by the Santa Clara Unified School District (SCUSD), […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university’s new definition of antisemitism (Associated Press) Published by the Associated Press on 7/25/25 NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Marianne Hirsch, a prominent genocide scholar at Columbia University, has used Hannah Arendt’s book about the trial of a Nazi war criminal, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,” to spark discussion among her students about the Holocaust and […] Media Coverage Highlights
August 5, 2025 Inside the powerful task force spearheading Trump’s assault on colleges, DEI (Washington Post) Published by the Washington Post on 7/24/25 In 2021, future vice president JD Vance delivered a speech titled “The Universities Are the Enemy.” A few years later, during his campaign, Donald Trump called college leaders “Marxist maniacs.” Now their administration is using the full force of the federal government to investigate long-standing conservative complaints about universities, making […] Uncategorized Media Coverage Highlights
August 5, 2025 Complaint: CA school district misled public about instituting ethnic-studies requirement (JNS) Published by JNS on 7/21/2025 The Palo Alto Unified School District, a public district that operates about 20 schools, violated California state law, misleading the public about its ethnic-studies curriculum, a new complaint alleges. In January, the district’s superintendent, Don Austin, announced an indefinite pause in implementing ethnic studies. A few days later, the district board […] Media Coverage Highlights
August 5, 2025 Suing MIT for Antisemitism (Aish) Published by Aish on 7/20/25 Lior Alon and William Sussman, two Jewish students, got into MIT, one of the top universities in the country where they were following their dreams. Alon, a former IDF soldier, was a postdoctoral student, while William was working towards becoming a PhD. Allegedly, tenured linguistics professor Michel DeGraff harassed Jews […] Media Coverage Highlights
August 5, 2025 US Federal Judge Allows Antisemitism Lawsuit to Proceed Against Powerful Lawyers Union (Algemeiner) Published by the Algemeiner on 7/17/2025 A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that an antisemitism lawsuit accusing the powerful Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) union can continue over the objections of the organization’s formidable legal counsel, which attempted to have the case dismissed by arguing that it is “self-serving” and “anti-democratic.” On Wednesday, officials from […] Media Coverage Highlights
August 5, 2025 Israeli chemist accuses Stanford of career sabotage with malicious distortion, fabricated claims: Lawsuit (Fox News) Published by Fox News on 7/14/2025 An Israeli scientist was allegedly subject to a hostile and discriminatory work environment involving the alleged malicious distortion of his research, a fabricated sexual harassment investigation and an alleged retaliatory firing which all threatened to jeopardize his entire career, according to a bombshell federal lawsuit filed last week. Dr. […] Highlights Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 Microsoft to recognize Jewish employee group under threat of federal complaint (JNS) Published by JNS on 7/11/2025 Microsoft agreed to recognize the group Jews at Microsoft as one of its “employee resource groups” based on ethnicity and company-funded, after having said at first that Judaism is a religion and not an ethnicity. The company opted to change its mind after the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human […] Media Coverage Highlights
August 5, 2025 It was a milestone for progressive education in California. Then it unraveled (Guardian) Published by the Guardian on 7/7/2025. It was celebrated at the time as a major milestone for progressive education. In 2021, California became the first state to make ethnic studies a graduation requirement, mandating all high schools teach the subject by fall 2025. The idea, championed by California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, was to bring modern concepts into the […] Media Coverage Highlights
August 2, 2025 Ivy League universities paid hundreds of millions to settle with Trump. Is UCLA next? (LA Times) Published by LA Times on 08/2/2025 University of California leaders face a difficult choice after the U.S. Department of Justice said this week that UCLA had violated the civil rights of Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests and federal agencies on Wednesday suspended more than $300 million in research grants to the school. Do they agree to a […] Media Coverage
July 30, 2025 Palestinian coffee shop owner in Oakland responds to Department of Justice antisemitism lawsuit (ABC News) Published by ABC News on 07/30/2025 Abdulrahim Harara, owner of the Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland, made his first public comments since the United States Department of Justice launched a lawsuit against him. “These past two years, as the cafe has faced unprecedented harassment and unprecedented oppression,” said Harara, surrounded by supporters. “I thank the community for standing […] Media Coverage
July 11, 2025 Israeli Researcher Says Stanford Shunned and Sabotaged Him After Hamas Attack (Freepress) Published by the Free Press on 7/10/2025 Shay Laps arrived at a prestigious Stanford University research laboratory from Israel in April 2024 with a mission to develop a type of insulin that could transform diabetes treatment. He had won the job after interviews more than six months earlier, and his credentials included a PhD, a […] Media Coverage
July 11, 2025 Israeli chemist sues Stanford for antisemitic discrimination after research was allegedly sabotaged (Jewish Insider) Published by Jewish Insider on 7/10/2025 An Israeli chemist who resigned from Stanford University is suing the school after he claims it was complicit in antisemitism that he faced at the school — including the alleged tampering with his lab results, Jewish Insider has learned. The Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Los Angeles-based law […] Media Coverage
July 11, 2025 Jewish groups, parents worry about San Francisco district’s new ethnic-studies program (JNS) Published by JNS on 7/8/2025 Maria Su, the superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, announced on June 30 that the district, which serves about 50,000 students in 122 schools, plans to introduce a new ethnic studies curriculum for the next academic year. Experts and parents told JNS that they have concerns about the curriculum, which they said […] Media Coverage
July 11, 2025 Fairfax County parents spoke up about antisemitic bullying. They say it got their kids expelled (WTOP) Published by WTOP news on 7/7/2025 Three kids who attended a Fairfax County private school were expelled after their parents complained about antisemitic bullying, according to a new complaint filed with the Virginia Attorney General’s office. In the 22-page filing, Brian Vazquez and Ashok Roy said their 11-year-old daughter faced antisemitic harassment at The Nysmith School […] Media Coverage
July 11, 2025 Jewish parents say their kids were expelled from their school for reporting antisemitism on campus (Independent) Published by the Independent on 7/3/2025 Two Jewish parents have issued a civil rights complaint against a Virginia private school for expelling their three children after their daughter reported antisemitic harassment on campus. Brian Vazquez and Ashok Roy have filed a civil rights complaint against the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Herndon, Virginia, and its director, Kenneth Nysmith. […] Media Coverage