attorney and an author. He is director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, a program of the Human Rights Project at Bard College. From 2014 to 2018 he was executive director of the Justus &amp; Karin Rosenberg Foundation. 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. His 2020 book, "The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate", examines attempts of partisans of each side to censor the other, and the resulting damage to the academy.