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Friend --

President Trump’s executive order expanding the definition of
anti-Semitism to include a broad range of criticisms of the Israeli
government is harmful and counterproductive -- just ask the guy who wrote
the definition.

This Wednesday, renowned expert Kenneth Stern -- the original author of
the working definition of anti-Semitism adopted by the executive order --
will join J Street for an online briefing on Wednesday, 2pm Eastern, to
discuss the impact of the order and to answer your questions.

Wednesday, December 18 | 2:00pm Eastern
 
Online Briefing with Kenneth Stern:
What's Wrong with Trump's Executive Order?
 
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Since news of the order first broke, our communities have been roiled by
confusion and debate about its different provisions and legal significance
-- and what impact it will actually have on college campuses.

Throughout the debate, Stern has been clear: “I drafted the definition of
antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it,” he wrote in the The
Guardian last week. “This order is an attack on academic freedom and free
speech, and will harm not only pro-Palestinian advocates, but also Jewish
students and faculty, and the academy itself.”

An expert on anti-Semitism and campus culture, Stern serves as director of
the Bard Center for the Study of Hate and is currently writing a book
titled The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate.
He’ll be joined by Rikki Baker Keusch, J Street U’s Mid-Atlantic campus
organizer and former member of J Street U's national student board, and
Dylan Williams, J Street’s senior vice president of government affairs.

[ [link removed] ]Don't miss this opportunity to hear directly from Ken Stern on this
timely and important issue. Register now for this online briefing >>

Hope you can join us this Wednesday!

Best,

Alyson Samach
Assistant Director of Events and Public Engagement

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Kenneth Stern is an award-winning author and attorney. He directs the Bard
Center for the Study of Hate, and was for 25 years the Director of the
Division on Antisemitism and Extremism at the American Jewish Committee.
Stern’s op-eds and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, the
Washington Post, USA Today, The Forward, the JTA and elsewhere. He has
argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified before Congress,
presented at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes and served as a
member of the US Delegation to the Stockholm Forum on Combating
Intolerance. Stern was the lead drafter of the “working definition” of
anti-Semitism. He was also an integral part of the defense team in the
historic London Holocaust denial case of David Irving vs. Deborah
Lipstadt. He has trained over 200 college and university presidents on how
to respond to instances of bigotry on campus and helped to establish
courses and programs on the study of hate at Gonzaga University and at
Bard College. His forthcoming book is The Conflict Over the Conflict: The
Israel/Palestine Campus Debate.


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