Read the entire Brandeis Brief here. Brandeis Brief: September 2021 Why did Sheila Levin and Dr. Ronald Albucher file their landmark Brandeis Center complaint against Stanford University? The Stanford mental health professionals explain why in this issue of the Brandeis Brief. Kenneth L. Marcus gives that case context in a new review. Also in this issue: the latest on Johns Hopkins University, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, a 25-year old terror funding lawsuit, and the newest member of the Center’s Academic Advisory Board. For those who celebrate, we wish you a healthy and sweet new year. “Why We Filed a Discrimination Complaint Against Stanford” Ronald Albucher and Sheila Levin (The Stanford Daily)Stanford employees Sheila Levin and Dr. Ronald Albucher explain to the school’s student newspaper why they filed a federal harassment complaint against the University. They bring attention to the DEI committee’s failure to address anti-Semitic attacks on campus, such as the vandalism of Stanford’s Memorial Church with swastikas, and the committee’s promotion of harmful anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish power. Read More Jewish Advocacy Groups Demand Action From Hopkins  Min-Seo Kim (The Johns Hopkins News-Letter)This July, the Brandeis Center teamed up with StandWithUs to joint-author a letter to Johns Hopkins University demanding that the institution make clear its commitment to protecting its Jewish students in light of an instructor’s treatment of Zionist students. In an interview with News-letter, Alyza Lewin explains the implications of this situation, observing that “expressing support for Israel’s existence as a Jewish homeland and expressing pride in the Jewish state for many Jews grows out of their Jewish identity.” Read More Do Jews Count? Kenneth L. Marcus (Commentary)Kenneth L. Marcus explains how Jewish identity is erased in certain progressive circles. In this Commentary piece, Marcus highlights the recent reports of anti-Semitic discrimination at Stanford University and reviews comedian David Baddiel’s book, Jews Don’t Count, describing the complexity of the Jewish ethnic identity and the double standard to which Jews are held in the media, politics, the workplace, and higher education. Read More LDB Fact Sheet on International Humanitarian Law and Asymmetrical Warfare Rachel Lerman, Brandeis BlogLDB recently published an educational fact sheet on asymmetrical warfare. In this fact sheet, we outline the most widely accepted international humanitarian law principles and explore their application in asymmetric conflicts to explain the legal framework governing Israel’s military defense. We list ways in which non-state actors like Hamas regularly violate international humanitarian law and highlight examples of Israel’s commitment to international law principles. This fact sheet adds to LDB’s collection of academic resources and research that can be used to educate and counter ill-informed criticisms of Israel. Read More LDB’s Summer Speaker Series Concludes with a Discussion on “The Legal Battle Against Campus Anti-Semitism”In the latest installment of the Brandeis Center’s summer speaker series, LDB’s own Ken Marcus, Alyza Lewin, and Denise Katz-Prober provide a compelling analysis of how the current political climate on college campuses surrounding Israel negatively affects and actively excludes Jewish students. They provide a detailed history of the adoption of legal statutes defining and combatting anti-Semitism in the U.S. and draw insightful new conclusions about the implications of LDB’s recent cases on Jewish students’ rights. Watch the full event here LDB’s Final Summer Speaker Series Event Family of Slain Teenager Makes Headway in Anti-Terror Lawsuit Melissa Weiss (Jewish Insider)The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a dismissal of the decades-old case concerning the family of David Boim, a teenager who was shot and killed by a Hamas terrorist at a West Bank bus stop in May 1996. The reversal ruling is a major victory for the Boim family. Alyza Lewin, attorney for the Boims for more than 20 years, tells the Jewish Insider, “The Boim legal precedent that was established has become the basic bedrock, the key leading precedent, that these victims’ cases have been based on… these lawyers who have handled cases on behalf of victims of terror, rely on the Boim precedent.” Read More New Report on Anti-Semitism Within United Nations Agency Nathaniel Berman, Brandeis BlogLast month, UN Watch reported on over twenty cases in which staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) promoted terror against Jews and Israel and over a hundred separate instances of UNRWA teachers and staff celebrating and promoting violence. Following the release of the report, UN Watch called for UNRWA’s major funders – which includes the U.S. – to pressure the organization to adhere to its own “zero tolerance” policy against racism, discrimination, and anti-Semitism. Read More Senators Call for Global Adoption of IHRA Working Definition  Chloe Shrager, Brandeis BlogAt the virtual Central America Forum for Israel conference, U.S. Senators James Lankford and Jacky Rosen called for a wider adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of anti-Semitism in combatting globally surging Jew-hatred. The forum brought together leaders from across Central America to reject Jew-hatred and unite in a powerful show of allyship with Israel. Read More Long Island Towns Adopt IHRA Chloe Shrager, Brandeis BlogThe Village of Great Neck, N.Y. joined five other New York State municipalities in adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of anti-Semitism. Similar successes have been seen in Kentucky, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, and Massachusetts. The adoption of the IHRA Definition in communities throughout the country continues to be an important tool to call out and combat Jew-hatred and injustice everywhere. Read More LDB Appoints Resnicoff to Academic Advisory Board Chloe Shrager, Brandeis BlogThe Brandeis Center recently announced the appointment of Professor Steven H. Resnicoff to the Center’s Academic Advisory Board. Resnicoff is a professor of law at DePaul University and director of the university’s Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies. He is an internationally known legal scholar whose expertise will serve as a great resource for the Center. Welcome to Academic Advisor Steven Resnicoff in his new role! Read More  The Louis D. 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