Posts Tagged: Kenneth Marcus
Trump Civil Rights Office Compels Reed College to Adopt IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Over Hate Incident
Reed College in Portland, Oregon, will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism as part of a settlement resolving a federal civil...
Texas Opens Investigation Into K-12 Antisemitism in Plano School District
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into antisemitism in the Plano Independent School District (PISD) in Collin County following a slew of...
California School District Rules Teacher Accused of Antisemitism Violated Policy
A California school district which stands accused of refusing to address antisemitism has ruled that a teacher who allegedly showed her students antisemitic, discriminatory, and...
ADL Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Baltimore City Public Schools, Alleging Rampant Antisemitism
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has filed a Title VI civil rights complaint against Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS), alleging that officials refused to respond to...
US Federal Judge Allows Antisemitism Lawsuit to Proceed Against Powerful Lawyers Union
A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that an antisemitism lawsuit accusing the powerful Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) union can continue over the...
Trump Administration Issues Harvard University Civil Rights Violation Notice
The Trump administration has issued Harvard University a "notice of violation" of civil rights law following an investigation which examined how it responded to dozens...
Civil Rights Nonprofit Slams Pro-Hamas Briefs Defending Harvard Lawsuit Against Trump
A new amicus brief filed in the lawsuit that Harvard University brought in April to stop the Trump administration's confiscation of some $3 billion of...
Jewish Civil Rights Scholar Urges US Congress to Respond to Antisemitism Crisis
Civil rights scholar Kenneth Marcus on Tuesday implored US lawmakers to recognize rising antisemitic violence as the civil rights issue of this era and enact...
Explosive MIT Antisemitism Lawsuit Says University Ignored Blatant Hate Incidents
An explosive lawsuit was filed on Wednesday by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on behalf of two Massachusetts Institute of...
New York City Mayor Signs Executive Order Adopting IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed an executive order which adopts the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, enacting a policy...
Microsoft Accused of Antisemitic Discrimination
Microsoft Corporation denies Jews the right to form ethnic affinity groups despite maintaining a robust system of them for other identity categories, the Louis D....
New York Legal Aid Union Accused of Blocking Antisemitism Reforms
A New York area labor union has been accused of enabling antisemitic discrimination in complaints filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the...
Virginia Democrats Block Jewish Civil Rights Attorney’s Appointment to University Board
Democrats in Virginia have launched an effort to block several appointees of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, including a Jewish civil rights attorney who was picked...
Harvard University Settles Antisemitism Lawsuits, Promises to ‘Combat Antisemitism’
Harvard University has settled two antisemitism lawsuits, which were merged by a federal judge in November 2024, that blighted its reputation while feeding an impression...
