Jews have long fought antisemitism in court. Is the law built for the fight?
When historian James Loeffler set out to write a history of antisemitism and free speech in America, he kept running into the same complaint from opposite ends of the political spectrum: that antisemitism is somehow…
Assessment
Historian James Loeffler's new book argues that antisemitism occupies a strange legal and political category in America, one that frustrates both those who think it's minimized and those who think it's exploited. The question is whether existing free speech law can handle a form of hatred that many feel operates by different rules. Watch for how Loeffler's framework gets picked up in ongoing campus debates and court cases where antisemitism allegations collide with First Amendment protections.