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.

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Alyson Samach
Assistant Director of Events and Public Engagement

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.