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Alyza Lewin

Alyza D. Lewin

Alyza D. Lewin is president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and a founder and partner of Lewin & Lewin, LLP.

The uptick in hostility, even in the K-12 academic space, has not happened in a vacuum.
What America’s founding father Benjamin Rush can teach about challenging the denial of Jewish identity and history and strengthening Jewish identity.
The war we are fighting against those who deny Jewish identity and erase Jewish history is increasing in intensity.
Antisemitism has sought to “other” the Jew, to treat the Jew as unacceptable company, to deny Jews their place in society.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis knew that Jewish, Zionist and American ideals were united as one.
Why doesn’t the world recognize this anti-Semitism? In a world that opposes bigotry, why is there no resounding chorus condemning this discrimination?
Applying Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to Jews is not new. It is the “adoption” of the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism that’s causing all the ruckus.
Zionism is integral to Jewish identity. And anyone opposing it is targeting Jews.