LDB authors are active in a wide range of research publication. These articles are some of the most recent contributions in areas relevant to LDB’s mission.
Research Articles
LDB-Trinity College Report
LDB and Trinity College have issued this important 2015 “Anti-Semitism Report,” presenting results from a national demographic survey of American Jewish college students. This report shows that more than half of 1,157 self-identified Jewish students at 55 campuses nationwide who took part in an online survey reported having having experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism on their campuses during the last academic year.
Barry A. Kosmin & Ariela Keysar
The Morass of Middle East Studies: Title VI of the Higher Education Act and Federally Funded Area Studies
Six years ago, Congress recognized the need for “diverse perspectives” in federally funded Middle East Studies programs. Congress had created the so-called “Title VI programs” in 1958 to address Cold War national security demands. After September 11, 2001, it was more important than ever to provide United States intelligence and armed services agencies with a pipeline of skilled workers. Unfortunately, Title VI programs were not serving their intended purpose.
Another Milestone For the Mainstreaming of Anti Semitism : The New American Foundation and Max Blumenthal’s Goliath
This paper argues that, by providing a platform to Max Blumenthal for the promotion of his book Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, the New America Foundation (NAF) bestowed legitimacy on a book that is, in effect, antisemitic because its author intended to convince readers that Israel should be equated with Nazi Germany.
Petra Marquardt-Bigman
LDB Challenges Traditional Ideas About Religious Freedom
LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus argues that America’s traditional form of religious freedom does not protect all Americans equally. Marcus delivered this research in Jerusalem on May 16 at the Israel Democracy Institute’s (IDI) International Conference on the Role of Religion in Human Rights Discourse.
Kenneth L. Marcus
Antisemitism Worldwide 2011 General Analysis
The Kantor Center at Tel Aviv University’s authoritative annual analysis, Antisemitism Worldwide, demonstrates escalating global anti-Semitism in 2011 but a decrease in major violent incidents. LDB Advisor Dina Porat (Tel Aviv), who heads the Kantor Center, oversees this research.
Dina Porat
Antisemitism and the Campus Left
LDB Advisor Richard Cravatts (Simmons College) has published an important new article on “Antisemitism and the Campus Left” in the new 2012 Special Issue of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, edited by LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus Cravatts demonstrates how the anti-Israel bias of some progressive intellectuals crosses the line into anti-Semitism.
Richard Cravatts
Law Review Article on “Accusation in a Mirror”
Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2012
Kenneth L. Marcus
Bullying as a Civil Rights Violation: The U.S. Department of Education’s Approach to Harassment
Engage, The Journal of the Federalist Society Practice Groups, Volume 12, Issue 2, August-September, 2011
Kenneth L. Marcus
The New OCR Antisemitism Policy
Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2010
Kenneth L. Marcus
Whitewashing Antisemitism at the University of California-Irvine
Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2010
Kenneth L. Marcus
Commentary MagazineJurisprudence of the New Anti-Semitism
Wake Forest Law Review, Summer 2009
Kenneth L. Marcus
Privileging and Protecting Schoolhouse Religion
Journal of Law and Education, October 2008
Kenneth L. Marcus
Higher Education, Harassment, and First Amendment Opportunism
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, April 2008
Kenneth L. Marcus
Anti-Zionism as Racism: Campus Anti-Semitism and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, February 2007
Kenneth L. Marcus
The Most Important Right We Think We Have But Don’t: Freedom From Religious Discrimination in Education
Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 7, 2006
Kenneth L. Marcus
Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts Anti-Semitism in Europe
JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION, Vol. 50 No. 4, August 2006
Charles Small and Edward Kaplan