Summary
American lawyer, executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation, who joined the American Jewish Committee in 1989 as its antisemitism expert for 25 years and was lead drafter of the EUMC Working Definition of Antisemitism, testifying in 2017 against enshrining that definition in the Antisemitism Awareness Act (Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern, PDF p.1-2, p.5).
Details
- Taught a full-semester class on antisemitism at Bard College as visiting assistant professor of human rights, and is a fellow of its Center for Civic Engagement (PDF p.1).
- Began on antisemitism in the 1980s as a Portland, Oregon lawyer; protesting the 1982 War in Lebanon he heard antisemitism from progressive colleagues (PDF p.1).
- Coordinated the 2002 New York Times ad of over 300 college presidents and the 2007 ad of over 400 presidents endorsing Lee Bollinger’s statement against the University and College Union boycott (PDF p.2).
- Filed the Vestal School District Title VI complaint at AJC for Jewish students harassed because they were Jewish (PDF p.4).
- Co-authored a 2011 article with AAUP President Cary Nelson on abuse of the working definition in Title VI cases; AJC eventually withdrew its support for that statement, as his footnote 12 records (PDF p.7).
- Declares of himself: “I am a Zionist” (PDF p.10).
Related pages
Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern, EUMC Working Definition of Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Academic freedom