Posts Tagged: Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law
Complaint Alleging Antisemitism at University of Illinois Prompts Diverging Responses From Faculty
A controversy around allegations of widespread antisemitism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has prompted faculty to weigh in on the debate in two...
Pro-Israel Scholars Counter Move by Major US Academic Association to Boycott Israel
Pro-Israel professors are once again gearing up to prevent the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign from hijacking an upcoming academic association conference. The Academic Engagement...
Brandeis Center Launches Initiative to Train Law Students to Fight Antisemitism
JNS.org - In the aftermath of the Oct. 27 shooting at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, a new initiative was launched on Friday for law...
Pro-Israel Groups Urge President of NYU to Act on Discriminatory Statement
JNS.org - With the academic year about to begin, Israel advocacy groups, including the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB), StandWithUs (SWU), and Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF),...
Jewish Civil Rights Group Urges US Government to Confront Religious Bullying
JNS.org - The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB), a Jewish civil- and human-rights group, is urging the US government to confront...
US Jewish Civil Rights Group Calls for Federal Law to Counter Religious Bullying, Harassment in Schools
A leading Jewish human rights group called on the federal government on Friday to take action against religiously-motivated bullying in American schools. Aviva Vogelstein, director of...
Pro-Israel Groups Claim Criminal Action Took Place at UC-Irvine Protest, Call on School to Hold Perpetrators ‘Accountable’
Three major pro-Israel groups have claimed that University of California-Irvine (UCI) students committed criminal acts at a protest of a Zionist event in May and have now called on...
Legal Expert: Virginia Motion to Recognize Antisemitism as Unlawful Discrimination Aims to ‘Get Ahead’ of Jew-Haters at State-Funded Universities
The head of a legal NGO supporting a Virginia motion to recognize antisemitism as an unlawful form of discrimination explained to The Algemeiner on Wednesday why...
Campus Watchdogs Laud Fordham University’s Decision to Ban Notoriously Anti-Israel Student Group
Watchdogs lauded the recent decision by a New York academic institution to prevent a notoriously anti-Israel group from organizing on its campus. AMCHA Initiative co-founder Tammi Rossman-Benjamin and others...
Expert: ‘Paralyzed’ Education Department Unable to Protect Jews on Campus Due to System’s Lack of Antisemitism Definition
A legal expert last week called the US Department of Education (DoED) “paralyzed” when it comes to protecting Jewish students, due to the absence of a system-wide...
Prominent Scholars Slam Modern Language Association for Entertaining ‘Shameful’ BDS Resolution, Politicizing Academia
Two American scholars called an anti-Israel motion being brought before the upcoming conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA) a "shameful maneuver" that highlights the worrisome politicization of academia. Referring...
Campus Antisemitism: The Year in Review
This has been an extraordinarily eventful year in the campaign against campus antisemitism, especially from our perspective at the Louis D. Brandeis Center. On the...
Legal Group Threatens Action Against Modern Language Association Over BDS Motion That Counters Academic Organization’s Tax-Exempt Status
A Jewish civil rights organization threatened a prominent academic body with legal action on the grounds that an anti-Israel motion it is considering runs counter to the...
Human Rights Expert Says Unanimous Passage of Senate Antisemitism Bill Will Have ‘Ripple Effect’ on US Campuses
A newly passed US Senate bill advancing the fight against antisemitism will have a “ripple effect” on educational institutions, the head of a Jewish human rights organization told...
