DOCUMENTING JEW HATRED ON CAMPUS

Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the legal director of The Deborah Project, a public interest law firm devoted exclusively to asserting and defending the civil rights of Jews facing discrimination in education. Lori and TDP have represented students, faculty, families and academic associations by bringing antisemitism charges against institutions including public K-12 schools, colleges and university campuses. Lori and TDP were the first in the country to legally challenge those seeking to covertly insert false and dangerously antisemitic instructional materials into public K-12 schools. Since then, TDP has brought many more such lawsuits across the country and is also representing dozens of students and faculty in internal disciplinary proceedings based on antisemitic claims and efforts to harm anyone who challenges those materials or other antisemitic efforts. TDP is also one of the first to bring a Title VII claim against a college for hounding a fully-tenured faculty member for seeking to assert truths about Israel and about the October 7 Hamas Massacre. Lori has given many webinars to educate Jewish families on their legal rights and how to assert and protect them.

Lori is a widely published author whose writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Jerusalem Post, JNS, the Jewish Journal, and dozens of others. Her views on antisemitism in education have also been sought by The New York Times, National Review, JNS, and other media outlets. Prior to joining TDP as its legal director, Marcus was a journalist covering Israel and the wider Middle East, and antisemitism in the Diaspora. Still earlier, Marcus founded an international pro-Israel group, Z STREET, and she, along with Jerome Marcus—president of TDP—successfully sued the Internal Revenue Service for viewpoint discrimination. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Marcus was a litigator at a major international law firm, where she represented the media in First Amendment cases. She also has two master's degrees from Bryn Mawr College.