May 31, 2022 Will President Biden Blink at Anti-Semitism at NYU? (New York Sun) Opinion article by Kenneth L. Marcus published May 28, 2022 in the New York Sun The Biden administration will face at the end of the month a test. New York University is nearing the end of its monitoring period under its settlement of a federal antisemitism complaint filed during the Trump administration. The Biden administration will be […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 29, 2022 My Fellow Jewish Americans, Happy Rodney Dangerfield Month (South Florida Sun Sentinel) Opinion Article by Kenneth L. Marcus, published May 28, 2022 in the South Florida Sun Sentinel . Let me be the first to wish you a Happy Jewish American Heritage Month. The month is almost over. Nevertheless, Reader, I know I am the first to greet you. . Proclaimed by President George W. Bush in […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 19, 2022 “The Buffalo Massacre Was More Than Meets the Eye,” by Kenneth L. Marcus (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus | May 19, 2022 ~ The Buffalo Massacre Was More Than Meets the Eye No matter how you look at it, this brutal act was horrific. Beyond the immediate victims, the shooting has spread terror throughout America, especially in Buffalo’s Black community. Kenneth L. Marcus Photo by Scott […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 13, 2022 New York Sun: Affirmative Action After the Court’s Abortion Decision As the Harvard case demonstrates, elite universities have taken Supreme Court decisions as license to conduct racially preferential admissions decisions. . OPINION by Kenneth L. Marcus in the New York Sun, May 13, 2022 . Buried in the leaked Supreme Court draft abortion opinion, Justice Samuel Alito discusses “workability.” He explains the court should consider […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 13, 2022 WaPo: Georgetown’s double bind Opinion by Kenneth L. Marcus in The Washington Post, May 13, 2022 . One day before Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), the Georgetown University Law Center hosted a well-attended event featuring notorious antisemitic conspiracy theorist Mohammed El-Kurd. El-Kurd is infamous for promoting the modern-day “blood libel” against Jews. He cloaks his antisemitic rants as criticism of Israel, claiming Israeli Jews “harvest […] Op-Eds Press Room
May 10, 2022 Federal courts shouldn’t force Texas to subsidize discrimination, by Kenneth L. Marcus (Washington Times) Washington Times ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus – – Monday, May 9, 2022 ~ Federal courts shouldn’t force Texas to subsidize discrimination OPINION: Must Texas taxpayers subsidize antisemitism? Strangely enough, a federal district court required them to do so. Days ago the federal court of appeals began reviewing the legality of the lower court’s decision. […] Op-Eds Press Room
April 14, 2022 Kenneth L. Marcus in Newsweek: ‘The Toxic Culture That Produced the Subway Shooter Is All Around Us’ Opinion published in Newsweek, 4/14/22 . Suspected Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James may have acted alone. But if it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an entire culture to create a mass-murder. Ours can take full credit here. The toxic ideas that consumed James are all around us. . James is a […] Op-Eds Press Room
March 3, 2022 Corporations must ban both racism and antiracism by Kenneth L. Marcus (The Washington Times) The Washington Times ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus | Wednesday, March 2, 2022 ~ OPINION: Florida legislation to ban antiracist indoctrination recently passed the House and is now headed to the state senate. It is not alone. Around the country, over 120 bills to ban such practices have been introduced in state legislatures, but most have […] Op-Eds Press Room
February 9, 2022 What CUNY can learn from Whoopi Goldberg by Kenneth L. Marcus (NY Daily News) NY Daily News ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus, Feb 9, 2022 ~ Last week the U.S. Department of Education announced it had opened an investigation into allegations that professors advanced the racist and ethnic stereotype that Jews are “white” and “privileged” and therefore oppress people of color, ignoring centuries of Jewish discrimination and invoking an age-old and […] Op-Eds Press Room
January 27, 2022 “Global anti-Semitism reaches nearly all 10 stages of genocide,” by Kenneth L. Marcus (JNS) Jewish News Syndicate ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus ~ (January 27, 2022 / JNS) On Jan. 27, we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, honoring the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide, as well as the millions of other victims who were persecuted during that era. This remembrance will be meaningless, however, if we do not seriously […] Op-Eds Press Room
January 17, 2022 Colleyville Poses an Urgent Question: Will Biden Take Antisemitism Seriously? | Opinion by Kenneth L. Marcus (Newsweek) Newsweek By Kenneth L. Marcus, Chairman, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law ~ 1/17/22 at 8:32 am EST Saturday’s Congregation Beth Israel kidnapping in Colleyville, Texas, holds important lessons for federal policymakers. Yet based on early reports, it appears that these lessons are falling on deaf ears, as federal authorities misconstrue what […] Op-Eds Press Room
December 23, 2021 The lessons of humility by Kenneth L. Marcus (Washington Examiner) Washington Examiner ~ December 23, 2021 12:01 AM By KENNETH MARCUS For many people, humility is a message of the season. On Christmas, some like to recall from Philippians 2:8 that Jesus “humbled himself,” becoming “obedient to the point of death.” For some Jews like myself, Hanukkah also teaches humility. The Maccabees who drove Assyrians […] Op-Eds Press Room
December 23, 2021 Good News in the Fight Against Antisemitism by Kenneth L. Marcus (Jewish Journal) Jewish Journal ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus, December 23, 2021 ~ At this time of year-end recollections, we cannot forget that antisemitism has reached historic levels this year, including attacks on Jews in the streets of Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Southern Florida. But the year has not been entirely bleak. There has been good news. The fight against antisemitism is […] Op-Eds Press Room
October 28, 2021 Like EU, the US must adopt a strategy to combat antisemitism | Opinion (Sun Sentinel) SunSentinel ~ By L. Rachel Lerman and Diane Kunz | OCT 27, 2021 AT 8:43 AM ~ Last May, Jews around the world faced some of the worst antisemitic attacks since World War II. In Europe and the United States, Jews were beaten and threatened with murder. While the Israeli defensive actions in Gaza were the ostensible […] Op-Eds Press Room
October 15, 2021 A New Jerusalem Consulate Will Again Proclaim: Jerusalem Is Not in Israel | Opinion (Newsweek) Newsweek ~ Nathan Lewin and Alyza Lewin, Lewin & Lewin, LLP (October 14, 2021) ~ Many consider the Biden administration’s oft-expressed intent to open a U.S. consulate-general in Jerusalem a minor administrative change. In fact, it is a dangerous resurrection of a fiction that dominated American attitudes and policy toward Israel for decades. It is nothing less […] Op-Eds Press Room
October 5, 2021 Kenneth L. Marcus’ Reply to Johns Hopkins President Response to Ronald J. Daniels ~ We are pleased that, in response to my Sept. 30 essay, “Johns Hopkins must live up to its ideals,” JHU President Ronald J. Daniels has finally written with appropriate forcefulness that Johns Hopkins takes antisemitism seriously. Daniels’ Oct. 1 letter improves on the rote, vague denunciations of anti-Semitism and racism that JHU […] Op-Eds Press Room
September 30, 2021 “Johns Hopkins must live up to its ideals,” by Kenneth L. Marcus (The Washington Post) The Washington Post ~ Opinion by Kenneth L. Marcus (September 30, 2021 at 3:22 p.m. EDT) Johns Hopkins University recently extended the record-breaking tenure of its longest-serving president, Ronald J. Daniels. Under Daniels, Johns Hopkins has prospered, buoyed by the landmark $1.8 billion gift from alumnus Mike Bloomberg. As important, under Daniels, the university has hued […] Op-Eds Press Room
September 21, 2021 “We must call for an end to Durbanism,” by Kenneth L. Marcus (JNS) JNS ~ Kenneth L. Marcus – September 20, 2021 ~ (September 20, 2021 / JNS) The United Nations will hold a major international convening on Sept. 22 to mark the 20th anniversary of its World Conference Against Racism, held in Durban, South Africa in 2001. In many ways, that conference has marked us more than we mark it. For […] Op-Eds Press Room
September 19, 2021 “Definition of antisemitism adapts to new political strategies” by L. Rachel Lerman (Boston Herald) Boston Herald By L. RACHEL LERMAN | September 19, 2021 at 12:02 a.m. The U.N. will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Racism at Durban, South Africa, on Sept. 22. Far from scoring a victory against racism, however, the 2001 conference is remembered for a spate of virulent attacks against Jews and Israel — […] Op-Eds Press Room
August 22, 2021 Do Jews Count? by Kenneth L. Marcus (Commentary) Commentary ~ By Kenneth L. Marcus – September 2021 ~ Last May, Zoom-bombers hijacked a Stanford University townhall and broadcast racist messages that displayed images of swastikas and weapons and made use of the N-word. This incident caused widespread distress, including among Stanford’s Jewish community. Nevertheless, the diversity committee at Stanford’s psychological counseling division decided […] Op-Eds Press Room
July 11, 2021 No Fear Rally ~ “A world that cannot appreciate Jews is a world that does not tolerate difference.” (Alyza Lewin, July 11, 2021) Watch Alyza at the #NoFearRally here! ~ Alyza D. Lewin Remarks ~ No Fear Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People Washington, DC, July 11, 2021 Good afternoon. I am Alyza Lewin, President of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. I’m here today with these extraordinary students because today, Jews are […] Op-Eds Press Room