Louis D. Brandeis Center
No matter what happens, SUNY “did not serve us in time, or it did not consider our well-being and the urgency of the matter,” one of two student complainants told JNS.
The legal group aims to learn more about anti-Zionist student group policies and talk about adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
“It’s nonsense to suggest that a BDS proposal is separate from anti-Semitism,” said Kenneth L. Marcus, founder and chairman of the Brandeis Center.
“Fighting bigotry should not be a competition between minority groups; it’s not a zero-sum game,” said Denise Katz-Prober, director of legal initiatives at the Brandeis Center.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission official Andrea Lucas said the “EEOC is always monitoring for when there is a rise in a particular type of discrimination, and in May, it noticed what she described as a ‘serious rise’ in anti-Semitic violence.”
“If Catholic students were told they had to disavow the Vatican before they could engage with other members of the student body, everyone would agree that it would be blatant discrimination. This is no different,” said Alyza Lewin, president and general counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
