Author: Johanna Markind

Johanna Markind

Left-wing Activists Pressure American Bar Association Not To Adopt Widely-Accepted IHRA Definition of Antisemitism

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 29, 2023 11 Comments

LIF finds itself in the unusual position of complimenting the ABA for its resolution; will ABA cave the way Harvard Dean Elmendorf did?...

“American Bar Association, in its role as an accreditor, should not be partisan in [the current culture] war”

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 22, 2023 10 Comments

I'm quoted in an article in The Epoch Times on today’s legal education culture war: “[ABA] decisions should be based solely on academic criteria and how we best train lawyers, not how we best train lawyers who follow a particular ideology.”...

Harvard Capitulates: Will Give Ken Roth, Who Devoted His Life To Delegitimizing Israel, Prestigious Human Rights Fellowship After All

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 20, 2023 13 Comments

Pro-Roth echo chamber succeeds in pressuring Harvard into reversing decision to deny Roth a human rights fellowship, even though he has done more damage to legitimate "human rights" advocacy than almost any other living person....

New Scholarly Analysis Debunks Anti-Israel Boycotters’ Claim First Amendment Protects “Right” to Violate Anti-BDS Laws

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 19, 2023 13 Comments

States historically regulated discriminatory boycotts as economic activity, says new article....

Ken Roth, Whose Anti-Israel Obsession Defiled Human Rights Watch, Rejected For Prestigious Harvard Fellowship; Left Goes Crazy

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 17, 2023 29 Comments

Roth relentlessly pushed the fraudulent "Israel Apartheid" narrative, turning Human Rights Watch into a primary instigator of antisemitism....

French Online Geography Quiz Recognizes Palestine “From the River to the Sea”

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 14, 2023 16 Comments

Online geography challenge recognizes “Palestine” that includes all of Israel within its pre-1967 borders....

NYC DA Offers Cushy Plea Deals To “Pro-Palestinian” Thugs Who Assaulted Jews on City Streets

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 13, 2023 24 Comments

Plea lets Waseem Awawdeh, who allegedly beat Joseph Borgen with crutches, plead to a lesser charge and serve 6 months instead of the 3½-15 years he currently faces....

Reinventing History: U.S. Officials “Repatriate” Ancient Judean Artifact – to Palestinians

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 11, 2023 38 Comments

Palestinian Arabs have zero connection to the artifact. Yet the Biden administration appears to buy into Palestinian myth that Arabs are the indigenous inhabitants while the ancient Jewish people never existed....

Study: U Cal Education Schools Indoctrinate Future Teachers in Critical Race Theory Exploiting ‘Ethnic Studies’

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 09, 2023 10 Comments

Fox News reports on Legal Insurrection study: "California public schools are ‘saturated’ with teachers who were taught critical race theory at University of California Schools of Education and teacher preparation programs, according to a new study released Monday."...

Faced With a Law-School Boycott, U.S. News Revamps Rankings Methodology But Ducks “Diversity” Issue

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 06, 2023 5 Comments

Schools urged U.S. News to give more weight to bar passage and employment rates but less to how much schools pay or don’t pay per student, how much debt they load onto students, and schools’ refusal to tie scholarships to admissions tests....

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Iranian Dissidents Charge Oberlin College with Whitewashing Professor’s Alleged Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity

Posted by Johanna Markind on December 28, 2022 5 Comments

The letter claims the college ignored proof Mohammad Jafar Mahallati covered up Iranian murders of at least 5,000 dissidents....

Texas and Virginia Commissions: BDS Plays Key Role In Fomenting Antisemitism

Posted by Johanna Markind on December 26, 2022 10 Comments

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction movement against Israel contributes strongly to campus environments hostile to Jews....

Radical “Liberated Ethnic Studies” Team Leader/Teachers Union Member Wins CA School Board Seat

Posted by Johanna Markind on December 20, 2022 19 Comments

In California’s Oak Grove School District (in San Jose), Taunya Jaco won election. Expect to see many more candidates who are wholly in the tank for critical race theory and ethnic studies, and who are members of the educational bureaucracy, to run for school board...

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