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name = Kenneth S. Stern
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occupation = Attorney, Author
nationality = American
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genre = non-fiction, history
subject = antisemitism, hate studies
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Kenneth S. Stern is an attorney and an author. He is director on antisemitism, hate studies and extremism for the American Jewish Committee. In 2000, Stern was a special advisor to the defense in the trial. [ [http://www.holocaustdenialontrial.org Holocaust Denial on Trial. Truth Triumphs in 2000 Historical Court Victory] ]
Education
Stern earned his A.B. at Bard College, and his J.D. from Willamette University College of Law.Career
Stern has testified before US Congress; in 1997 he served as an invited presenter at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes.[ [http://www.tisrael.org/calendar/events.php?page=9596 Rose Feinberg Memorial Lecture. Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism] With Kenneth Stern] 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.]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.[ [Kenneth S. Stern: "Proposal For A Redefinition Of Antisemitism" in [http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2003-4/porat.htm Defining antisemitism] by Dina Porat] ]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." [ [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/31461/edition_id/588/format/html/displaystory.html Holocaust education alone won't stop hate] . Jewish SF. January 26, 2007]
Notes
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)
* " [http://ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/737.PDF 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
* " [http://www.publiceye.org/ifas/fw/9610/militias.html Militias and the religious right] " Freedom Writer, October 1996. (Institute for First Amendment Studies, 1998)
* " [http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/Hate_and_%20the%20Internet.pdf Hate and the Internet] " (AJC)
* " [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=181 Lying About the Holocaust] " (SLPC Intelligence Report, Fall 2001)
* "Battling Bigotry on Campus"
* " [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001879734_hate16.html Getting to the root of hate in a challenging world] " Seattle Times. March 16, 2004
* " [http://www.peacefaq.com/noi.html The Minister For Hate] (The Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan). Published in J.O.I.N. Australia/Israel Review, 1998. Also at [http://www.aijac.org.au/review/1998/231/noi1.html]
* [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/31461/edition_id/588/format/html/displaystory.html Holocaust education alone won't stop hate] . Jewish SF. January 26, 2007. Also at [http://www.juf.org/news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=7753] , [http://www.jstandard.com/articles/2175/1/Teaching-the-Holocaust-is-important,-but-it-won%92t-stop-anti-Semitism]
* [http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/12046/ 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"
ee also
*Hate studies
*Universities and antisemitism
External links
* [http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/i/irving.david/press/ftp.py?people/i/irving.david/press/irving-vrs-lipstadt/Press_Summary.000413 Truth Is Winner in Holocaust Denier's Libel Defeat] Newsday, Apr. 13, 2000, p. A54. (nizkor.org)
* [http://www.salon.com/11/features/montana1.html Is Uncle Sam coddling the Kooks?] By Jonathan Broder (Salon.com)
* [http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/26/3/161.pdf The County Supremacy and Militia Movements: Federalism as an Issue on the Radical Right] by William Chaloupka (University of Montana)
* [http://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/cause_for_concern/p14.html Cause for Concern: Hate Crimes in America. Reports and Curricula] (Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund)
