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American Colleges Ignore Violence Against Jewish Students in Israel and the U.S.
Jeff Robbins, Observer.com
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| An Israeli father shows his child a picture of late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin |
LDB Legal Advisor Jeff Robbins explains that "a number of faculty associations have embraced the anti-Israel fashion metastasizing in circles holding themselves out as progressive." Over the past few years, many academic associations have considered resolutions singling out and condemning the Jewish state. LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus notes, "There is obviously a connection between the academic association boycotts and the outbreaks of anti-Jewish bigotry on campus."
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Roz Rothstein and Yitzhak Santis, JNS.org
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| SJP features convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh as the keynote speaker at its national conference |
Malicious campaigns to intimidate Jewish and other pro-Israel students and faculty into silence are occurring on far too many North American college campuses. They create chaos and feed off the ensuing controversy to gain attention for their anti-Israel accusations. The goal: to create an atmosphere of political conformity based on an assumption of ill-will against Israel and its supporters. Yet the campaigns will not succeed. Read this insightful commentary by Roz Rothstein and Yitzhak Santis of StandWithUs.
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Student Expelled From Prestigious French University for Anti-Semitism
Jonathan Molina, Brandeis Blog
Jonathan Molina, a past intern for the Brandeis Center, reports that his former classmate, Amira Jumaa, was expelled from their prestigious French University, Sciences Po Paris, for anti-Semitism.
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Alex Goldberg, Brandeis Blog
On January 3, "Oberlin Alumni Against Anti-Semitism", a newly formed group, denounced a recent trend of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel acts on Oberlin's campus in a letter to Oberlin President Marvin Krislov. Oberlin College, a small private school in northern Ohio, has a long history of peaceful political activism. However, as the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel has grown more active on campus, this activism has turned into attacks and threats.
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Journal Pioneer
During the past year, there has been an increase in anti-Israel activity on American college campuses.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, there are over 150 explicitly anti-Israel programs at colleges and universities nationwide. Additionally, 2015 saw multiple troubling anti-Semitic incidents on campus across the nation. LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus noted, "Universities should be oases of reason and tolerance, but they are not."
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Hitler's Presence Online
Michelle Yabes, Brandeis Blog
The Israeli Students Combating Anti-Semitism (ISCA), a project by The National Union of Israeli Students (NUIS), recently released a media report examining Adolf Hitler's presence online. ISCA notes how the glorification of Hitler and promotion of Nazi ideology is
a widespread trend on the internet. A wide range of websites, and
even profiles on social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Instagram, are dedicated to perpetuating such content.
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Legislators Introduce California and New York Anti-BDS Bills
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| Senator Jack Martins (NY) and Assemblyman Travis Allen (CA) |
In January, legislators in California and New York introduced bills that would forbid
business dealings
with companies supporting or participating in
the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement against Israel. By the end of the month, the New York State Senate passed the bill that was sponsored by Senators
Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn
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Senator Jack Martins, a Republican from Long Island. This legislation joins similar anti-BDS resolutions in
Illinois,
Indiana,
South Carolina,
Florida, and Tennessee.
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LDB
President Kenneth L. Marcus contributed important scholarship on "The Ideology of the New Anti-Semitism" to Indiana University scholar Alvin Rosenfeld's landmark new edited volume, Deciphering the New Antisemitism.
Rosenfeld is a distinguished member of LDB's Academic Advisory Board, and is an internationally distinguished scholar that serves as the Director of Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, as well as Professor of Jewish Studies and English, at IU Bloomington. His latest edited volume addresses the issue of anti-Semitism through a global perspective, with essays that examine how anti-Semitism molds into various forms in all parts of the world.
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The Brandeis Center welcomes their newest team member, Alex Goldberg, a junior who joins LDB for a Spring 2016 Communications & Development internship.
Alex looks forward to contributing to supporting LDB's
mission
of advancing the civil and human rights of Jewish people and promoting justice for all.
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The Louis D. Brandeis Center stands ready if we can help you to combat anti-Semitism in higher education.
Please contact us if you are a student or professor who needs our help. We are also available to provide technical assistance to university administrators who are interested in achieving legal compliance and best practices for eliminating campus anti-Semitism.
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