Kenneth S. Stern
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| Kenneth S. Stern | |
| Born: |  United States |
|---|---|
| Occupation: | Attorney, Author |
| Nationality: | American |
| Genres: | non-fiction, history |
| Subjects: | antisemitism, hate studies |
| Debut works: | Holocaust Denial |
Kenneth S. Stern is an attorney and an author. He is the program specialist on antisemitism, hate studies and extremism for the American Jewish Committee. In 2000, Stern was a special advisor to the defense in the David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt trial.[1]
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[edit] Education
Stern earned his A.B. at Bard College, and his J.D. from Willamette University School of Law.[2]
[edit] Career
Stern has testified before US Congress; in 1997 he served as an invited presenter at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes.[2] He analyzed the militia movement, bigotry on campus, hate speech on talk radio and the Internet. He is a frequent guest on national television and talk radio shows, including Face the Nation, Crossfire, Nightline, Dateline, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News, and National Public Radio. His report Militias: A Growing Danger, issued two weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing, predicted such attacks on the US government.[2]
In 2001 he was an official member of the United States delegation to the Stockholm International Forum on Combating Intolerance. Stern was also a key drafter of a "working definition" of antisemitism, which has been adopted, starting in January 2005, by various international bodies tasked with monitoring antisemitism.[2][3]
[edit] Views
In his article Holocaust education alone won't stop hate, Stern proposes ways to combat persisting hatred of Jews:
"Human rights organizations must be challenged when they do not sufficiently assert that freedom from anti-Semitism is a human right. Governments must be engaged to ensure that they investigate and prosecute anti-Semitic hate crimes fully. Monitoring groups must catalog not only the old-fashioned forms of religious and racial anti-Semitism, but also the more contemporary forms that treat the Jewish state in the same bigoted manner that traditional anti-Semitism regards the individual Jew. Campus administrations need to uphold the highest academic standards and make certain that while heated debate is encouraged, intimidation is prohibited."[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Holocaust Denial on Trial. Truth Triumphs in 2000 Historical Court Victory
- ^ a b c d Rose Feinberg Memorial Lecture. Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism With Kenneth Stern
- ^ Kenneth S. Stern: Proposal For A Redefinition Of Antisemitism in Defining antisemitism by Dina Porat
- ^ Holocaust education alone won't stop hate. Jewish SF. January 26, 2007
[edit] Publications
- Books
- Holocaust Denial (New York: American Jewish Committee, 1993)
- Loud Hawk: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement (1994) University of Oklahoma Press, 2002: ISBN 0806134399)
- The Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate (Simon & Schuster, 1996) (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997: ISBN: 0806129263)
- Articles and other publication
- Skinheads: Who They Are and What to Do When They Come to Town (The American Jewish Committee, 1990)
- Anti-Zionism, the Sophisticated Anti-Semitism (AJC, 1990).
- David Duke: A Nazi in politics, 1991
- Dr. Jeffries and the anti-Semitic branch of the Afrocentrism movement, 1991
- Hate on talk radio, 1991
- Politics and bigotry, 1992
- Farrakhan and Jews in the 1990s (AJC, 1992, 1994).
- Crown Heights: A case study in anti-Semitism and community relations, 1992
- Demjanjuk: An analysis of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Demjanjuk v. Petrovsky, et al, 1993
- Liberators: A background report, 1993
- Militias, a growing danger (An American Jewish Committee background report, 1995)
- The McVeigh trial 1997
- Militias and the religious right Freedom Writer, October 1996. (Institute for First Amendment Studies, 1998)
- Hate and the Internet (AJC)
- Lying About the Holocaust (SLPC Intelligence Report, Fall 2001)
- Battling Bigotry on Campus
- Getting to the root of hate in a challenging world Seattle Times. March 16, 2004
- The Minister For Hate (The Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan). Published in J.O.I.N. Australia/Israel Review, 1998. Also at [1]
- Holocaust education alone won't stop hate. Jewish SF. January 26, 2007. Also at [2], [3]
- About Monitoring and Law Enforcement, Not Education (jewishexponent.com) February 01, 2007
- Antisemitism Today: How It Is the Same, How It is Different, and How to Fight It"
- Anti-Semitism Matters
- Hate Matters
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Truth Is Winner in Holocaust Denier's Libel Defeat Newsday, Apr. 13, 2000, p. A54. (nizkor.org)
- Is Uncle Sam coddling the Kooks? By Jonathan Broder (Salon.com)
- The County Supremacy and Militia Movements: Federalism as an Issue on the Radical Right by William Chaloupka (University of Montana)
- Cause for Concern: Hate Crimes in America. Reports and Curricula (Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund)
