Author:Kenneth Stern
Kenneth S. Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, and is the author most recently of "The Conflict over The Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate." From 1989 to 2014 he was director 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.
In 2001 he was an official member of the United States delegation to the Stockholm International Forum on Combating Intolerance.
His report "Militias: A Growing Danger," issued two weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing, predicted such attacks on the US government. And his book about the militias, "A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate" (1996) was nominated for the National Book Award. His book about the Dennis Banks case, "Loud Hawk: The United States vs. the American Indian Movement" (1994), won the Gustave Myers Center Award as outstanding book on human rights. Stern's other books are "Holocaust Denial" (1993) and "Antisemitism Today" (2006).