Tag: Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law

Berkeley K-12 teachers have used school district resources and facilities to promote, support, and organize walkouts and activities denigrating Israelis and calling for the elimination of Jews. Some parents were threatened.

Since Oct. 7, antisemitism has run rampant at the school, according to the Brandeis Center.

Calling a federal district court’s ruling on the Texas anti-BDS law an “Israel-exception” that is “nothing less than a naked assault on principles of...

Professors maligned Jews as white, privileged oppressors, and advanced age-old tropes concerning Jewish power.

To date, Stanford has refused to recognize the problem or take appropriate corrective action to address it.

“This is not the first time Duke has faced incidents of anti-Semitism on its campus.”

Virginia Tech’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate members implement the academic boycott on campus and in their own classrooms.

Civil rights group demands an investigation.

Brandeis Center and StandWithUs demand action.

Jewish staff were pressured to join a racially segregated “whiteness accountability” affinity group, created for “staff who hold privilege via white identity."

The complaint makes clear that UIUC can protect the victims of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on its campus without violating the First Amendment.

"Anti-Semitic acts and expressions are all too common in our country and in our world, and examples of that intolerance have occurred at this university as well."

The President signed an executive order that requires federal agencies to consider the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism under appropriate circumstances.

For the second year in a row, US campuses have experienced a significant decline in classic anti-Semitic harassment (down 49%) and a significant increase in Israel-related incidents (up 60%).

Faculty took a much more active and prominent role in academic BDS promotion and implementation, and in the promulgation of anti-Semitic expression used to justify academic BDS.

Winter trips organized by Hasbara Fellowships will empower over 70 students from more than 25 campuses with tools such as public speaking, on-camera techniques, social media skills, and negotiating.

First-ever program to equip a fleet of law students with the legal tools to fight frightening resurgence

“The facts in this case, many of which were disregarded by the previous administration, are troubling.”

Free access now available to a Library of photos and videos documenting anti-Semitic incidents.

University administrators have generally been far less likely to adequately address Israel-related incidents than they have acts of classic anti-Semitism.

Advocates hoping this momentous step will launch a national wave.

'This case is about the illegal, hostile takeover of a non-profit, academic association by leaders of an anti-Israel group.'

Since the filing of the ASA lawsuit, the American Anthropological Association and the Modern Language Association have both backed down from passing boycott measures.

Bills introduced in Virginia and Tennessee legislatures recently and in Congress in December.

For Virginia, HB 2261 follows a number of anti-Semitic incidents on public university campuses across Virginia in 2016.

"Soon we will each be applying for colleges and we are very concerned by the recent rise in anti-Semitic behavior on campuses across the country. Thanks to today's meeting with Tammi, many of us feel better prepared for what we might encounter."

In 2016, 14 incidents that restricted Jewish students’ civil rights by suppressing their speech, blocking their movement or hindering their assembly were found on 12 campuses.