Lori Lowenthal Marcus Archives

Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the Legal Director of the Deborah Project, a public interest law firm asserting and defending the civil rights of Jews in educational settings.

An illustrative image of the Philadelphia skyline. Source: DeepAI.

The Philadelphia story of Jew-hatred

The city school district is under attack by vicious antisemites.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus

June 17, 2024

University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill during a U.S. congressional hearing on the silence of university administrators about the spate of antisemitism on campus, especially following the Oct. 7 terrorists attacks in Israel, Dec. 5, 2023, Source: X/Twitter.

Defending the rights of Jewish students: A legal primer

Jewish students are being subjected to bullying acts intended to intimidate and harass them because of their actual or imagined support for Israel. Thankfully, there are legal tools available which can and must be used to assert and defend their civil rights.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus

December 10, 2023

A Benjamin Franklin statue in front of College Hall on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Credit: Jay Yuan/Shutterstock.

Why did taxpayers fund antisemitic hate fest at Penn?

Where is the demand that the taxpayer funds be returned and an investigation launched into how a Pennsylvania agency was deceived?

Lori Lowenthal Marcus

September 24, 2023

McCosh 50, the largest lecture hall on campus, renovated in 2021. Credit: Politics Is Exciting via Wikimedia Commons.

The Princeton case: ‘Academic freedom’ to attack Jews

It is unacceptable that Jewish students don’t merit protection from "macroaggressions," especially when they have nothing to do with academic freedom.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus

September 3, 2023

Stack of books. Credit: jakkaje879/Shutterstock

Demanding transparency on antisemitic ethnic studies

We’ve asked a California Superior Court to compel Hayward Unified School District to answer the Public Record requests they’ve ignored.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus

May 14, 2023

Workers at the Central Elections Committee warehouse in Shoham prepare ballot boxes for Israel's Nov. 1 national election, Oct.12, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Supporting Israeli democracy

We are Zionists who believe that when the people of Israel exercise the sovereign right to vote, the result should be respected by all, by non-Jews and Jews throughout the world, and by Jews within Israel.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus and Alex Grobman

January 2, 2023

Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett speaks at the White House after President Donald Trump's announcement that he has nominated her to succeed the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sept. 26, 2020. Source: Screenshot.

‘You can’t say that!’ Well, they are saying it …

If you don’t think the dispute between Israel and its neighbors is a war against Jews, then who do you think the parties are?

Lori Lowenthal Marcus

December 15, 2021

Then-Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during their campaign in August 2018. Source: Rashida Tlaib via Twitter.

The tour Israel should arrange for Tlaib and Omar

The visit of two anti-Israel members of Congress is an opportunity for them to see the real Israel, and perhaps learn a thing or two.

Loris Lowenthal Marcus and Jerome M. Marcus

July 26, 2019

U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin (left) and Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan meet in March. Credit: Gene Russell Photography.

Veterans affairs emerges as new frontier in US-Israel military relationship

Lori Lowenthal Marcus

April 14, 2017

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