Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and the Law: Different Titles, the Same Hate 2026

Rona Kaufman is an associate professor at Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, where she teaches constitutional law, employment discrimination, family law, and gender and the law. Her scholarship focuses on intersections of law, women, motherhood, gender, antisemitism, antizionism, and Jewish peoplehood. Her articles have been published in the Buffalo Law Review, Florida International University Law Review, Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, and other publications. Before becoming an academic, Kaufman practiced commercial litigation and family law with Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright), and employment law with Baker Hostetler in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining Duquesne Kline School of Law’s faculty, Kaufman completed the Abraham L. Freedman Fellowship at Temple University Beasley School of Law and earned her Master’s in Legal Education. Professor Kaufman was a recipient of the Wexner Foundation’s two-year Wexner Heritage fellowship (2018-2020). In 2024, she was selected to be a member of President Isaac Herzog’s Voice of the People first global cohort. Professor Kaufman serves on the Brandies Center for Human Rights’ Center for Legal Innovation advisory board and on the Holocaust Claims Commission’s legal education working group. In 2025, she studied antisemitism and Holocaust inversion and distortion at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel. Professor Kaufman studied at Oxford with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism Policy in 2025. Professor Kaufman is co-founder of the Center for Jewish Law & Policy. She is the Chair of the Law & Antisemitism Conference. Professor Kaufman works with various other organizations to protect the civil rights of Jews and combat Jew-hatred.

Andrea J. Martin is an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law and a recipient of the Penn State Dickinson Law Phillip M. Scott Teaching Excellence Award. She is also co-founder of the Center for Jewish Legal Studies. Her work focuses on developing legal frameworks to address contemporary antisemitism, including antizionism and other forms of Jew-hatred, through legal scholarship, policy engagement, and institutional collaboration. Professor Martin’s research sits at the intersection of constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, and the study of historical and contemporary antisemitism. Working within the emerging field of Jewish Legal Studies, she examines how legal institutions can more effectively respond to antisemitism and protect civil rights. Her scholarship also advances policy-oriented strategies designed to influence governmental, legal, and institutional approaches to combating antisemitism. She also collaborates with governmental and non-governmental organizations to advance legal protections against antisemitism and promote Jewish civil rights globally. Her scholarship has appeared in leading journals, including the Yale Law & Policy Review, Brooklyn Law Review, Boston University Law Review Online, and Pepperdine Law Review. She has presented her work at numerous academic institutions and organizations, including the Brandeis Center for Human Rights, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Dean School of Law, and Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law. Professor Martin serves as a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA), a member of the Law Faculty Consultation Committee advising the Claims Conference’s Holocaust, Antisemitism and the Law (HALL) Center, and a Board Member of Penn State Hillel. Before entering academia, she served as a Special Assistant Attorney General in Rhode Island’s Appellate Division and spent twelve years as a strategic legal advisor in the corporate sector. Professor Martin received her J.D. from Howard University School of Law, M.B.A. from Suffolk University, and B.A. in History from the University of Rhode Island. Her interests and hobbies include history and writing.

Mr. Silberblatt is the managing partner of the Pittsburgh law firm of Silberblatt Mermelstein, P.C. He received his B.A., cum laude, from Allegheny College in 1977 and his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1980 where he served as a Senior Writer on the Law Review. He is Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Civil Trial Advocate. During his long career, Mr. Silberblatt concentrated his practice in civil litigation with a particular emphasis on lawyers’ professional liability matters. Now, as a Mediator with noblemediation, llc, he is helping lawyers across the state to resolve their cases. He served as the 128th President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association from 2022-2023. He also served two terms on the Board of Governors of the Allegheny County Bar Association, and he is a Fellow of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, having also served on its Board of Governors. Mr. Silberblatt was Chair of both the Civil Litigation Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association and the Civil Litigation Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and he was a Director of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation. He was the PBA Zone 12 Governor from 2015 to 2018 and is a member of the PBA House of Delegates and represents the PBA on the American Bar Association House of Delegates. He has chaired the PBA Lawyers Professional Liability Committee, is an appointed member of the PBA Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, and served as the Chair of the PBA Review and Certifying Board. He has been appointed by the ABA President to the ABA’s Taskforce to Combat Antisemitism. He served a six-year term as a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board, and he is a Hearing Committee Member for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He was appointed by the Supreme Court and serves on the Pennsylvania Commission for Fairness and Justice. He received PBA Special Achievement Awards in 2000 for his work in planning the PBA Civil Litigation Section’s Retreat and in 2004 and 2025 for his work in planning and presenting malpractice avoidance programs for the Professional Liability Committee. Jay was awarded the PBA President’s Award in 2002 for his efforts with Senate Bill 406 and Rule 1023.1 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, in 2020 for his work on the PBA Covid-19 Task Force, and in 2023 for his work on the PBA’s Search and Transition Committee. A third generation Pennsylvania lawyer, he is the author of numerous legal articles that have appeared in The Barrister, The Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, The Pennsylvania Law Weekly, The Pennsylvania Lawyer, The Pittsburgh Legal Journal, The Lawyer’s Journal, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, The Advocate, and Trial. Mr. Silberblatt has lectured for the Allegheny County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, the Pennsylvania CLE Board, and Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company.