6/18/2013
StandWithUs Celebrates 1,000 Israeli Student Ambassadors |
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| Each year, StandWithUs selects 150 Israeli students from around the country to join the Fellowship, empowering them to be future Israeli leaders and ambassadors. |
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6/18/2013
Israeli All Star Cards - A Project of the StandWithUs MZ Teen Program |
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| The StandWithUs MZ Teen Internship program encouraged students to create a fun and innovative campaign to teach their peers about Israel. The students were given the tools, resources, funding, and guidance to make their campaign a success. |
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6/18/2013
'Pinkwashing' charge aims to blacken Israel: Bercovici |
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| Queers Against Israeli Apartheid group promotes
conspiracy theories by demonizing Israel |
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6/17/2013
Native, Jewish bond thicker than water |
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| Justice for Palestinians is attempting to organize with the Council of Canadians a conference titled “Indigenous Perspectives on Water: Canada and Palestine.” |
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6/17/2013
USA Today Publishes BDS Press Release Almost Word for Word, Accuses Israel of Abuse |
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| The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel found itself a friend in major American newspaper USA Today recently, when a press release about its efforts to have Alicia Keys cancel her upcoming show in Israel appeared almost ve ... |
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6/14/2013
Tel Aviv White Night Festival's New Promo Video Is Beautiful |
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| Tel Aviv's annual "White Night Festival" turns 10 this year, and there's a truly beautiful ad to promote the June 27 festivities. |
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6/14/2013
L.A. City Council passes anti-BDS resolution |
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| The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a resolution to continue awarding city contracts without regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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6/14/2013
ACTION ALERT: |
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| Help Alicia Keys Resist Boycott Israel Pressure! |
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6/14/2013
Nicole Bernstein new StandWithUs director in S.D. |
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| Bernstein brings with her 14 years of leadership experience in executive management, communications and marketing roles in the corporate and start-up worlds. |
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6/13/2013
Missing the Point |
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| The struggle in the Middle East came to UC Santa Cruz recently. The movement known as BDS, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions is an international movement to undermine support for Israel and ultimately to destroy her. |
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6/12/2013
Citing Terror Support and Human Rights Abuses, Boulder City Council Nixes Sister-City |
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| The Boulder, Colorado city council voted overwhelmingly Monday to reject a sister city application from Nablus, citing Palestinian Authority abuses in the West Bank city and its long history as a terrorist center. |
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6/10/2013
PA Economy Minister walks out of BDS conference |
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| After making insulting comments in response to a "provocative" question, participants ask Jawad al-Naji to leave. |
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6/10/2013
Exhibit at State House Depicts Israel's History |
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| TO CELEBRATE ISRAEL'S 65th anniversary, the Community Relations Committee of Greater MetroWest NJ and StandWithUs displayed the "Israel Matters" exhibit at the NJ State House. |
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6/10/2013
U.C. Santa Cruz rejects divestment bill |
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| The student senate at U.C. Santa Cruz this week defeated a resolution urging the university to divest from companies that “profit from the illegal Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.” |
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6/10/2013
Only in Israel: Gay rights in the Middle East |
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| Sexual minorities are as unwelcome in the Middle East
as are religious minorities. Except in Israel |
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6/6/2013
Excellent News; Israeli Oil |
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| Now we have extraordinary announcements of recent findings starting with the discovery, 50 miles off the Israeli coast, of natural gas in 2009 that will make Israel one of the world's energy powers. Moses was right and an apology is due to him. |
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6/6/2013
Meet Israel’s Next Ambassadors |
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| This month, our organization StandWithUs is celebrating the graduation of our 1,000th Israeli Fellow. To appreciate what a historic moment this is, let me take you back to 2006. |
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6/6/2013
Lies, Apartheid and BS |
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| Whereas a liar must know the truth in order to conceal it, a BSer couldn’t care less one way or the other. His goal is not to conceal or reveal but to make an impression — to advance an agenda. |
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6/6/2013
SodaStream, Target of BDS Boycotters, Skyrockets |
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| The at-home beverage maker has often been the target of anti-Israel boycotts, but that doesn’t seem to be slowing down its growth and popularity. |
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6/5/2013
Divestment Failure at UC Santa Cruz |
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Statement from StandWithUs:
We are pleased that a divestment resolution was once again defeated, this time at UC Santa Cruz. |
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6/5/2013
Divestment from Israel resolution defeated at UC Santa Cruz |
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| (JNS.org) A divestment from Israel resolution was defeated Tuesday at the University of California, Santa Cruz with 19 votes against, 17 votes in favor, and three abstentions. The defeat followed a 45-minute student senate debate. |
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6/4/2013
Syria Shows Why Israel Must Remain Strong |
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| That is why Israel will never surrender and will always fight to the end. That is why Israel needs a nuclear deterrent, unsatisfactory as it may be in a part of the world where suicide in the name of Islam is a virtue to so many of Israel’s enemies. ... |
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6/3/2013
Ten Year Old Palestinian Boy Saved by Israeli Doctors, Jewish Kidney Donor |
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| The life of a ten year old Palestinian boy was saved today thanks to Israeli doctors at the Schneider Medical Center in Petah Tikva, and a Jewish kidney donor. |
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6/3/2013
Antioch’s anti-anti-Israel week attempts dialogue, change |
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| Antioch University, a one-building institution in downtown Seattle serving 900 students, has been holding Israel Apartheid Week for six years. This year, a tiny band of activists tried to put an end to it — and succeeded. |
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6/3/2013
Gil Stein: How do you spell antisemitism? BDS |
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| To those who follow the worldwide effort to undermine and destroy Israel, BDS -- the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement -- exemplifies the new wave of anti-Semitism. This movement is active on California college campuses, including UC Santa C ... |
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6/3/2013
THE STANDWITHUS ISRAEL FELLOWSHIP PRESENTS THE 2013 YEAR-END PROJECTS |
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| (Jerusalem, June 2, 2013) - The StandWithUs Israel Fellowship students are in final preparations for their 2013 year-end projects. They range from creating a new app that users "share and receive," bringing top YouTube artists to Israel to ... |
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5/31/2013
Pension giant TIAA-CREF excludes Israel divestment resolution from shareholders meet |
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| “StandWithUs commends TIAA-CREF for not putting the BDS resolution to a vote this year, thereby ensuring the shareholders meeting will focus solely on TIAA-CREF business,” Avi Posnick, the New York regional coordinator for StandWithUs, told JNS.org. |
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5/28/2013
McGill's Judith Butler Bungle |
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| When I first heard that McGill University, my university, was awarding Professor Judith Butler an honorary doctorate, I winced, quietly. Butler is a caustic critic of Israel, with a blind spot for terrorist totalitarians. |
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5/28/2013
Muslim writer touts Israeli tolerance of minorities |
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| "This country does not fit the description of an apartheid state," says author Qanta Ahmed in visit to Israel. |
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5/28/2013
The Next Step: From Israel Intern to Professional |
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| Campus Israel activists generally have working relationships with multiple pro-Israel organizations, and some get more involved by interning with these groups. In some cases, activists with intern experience move on to work with pro-Israel organizati ... |
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5/23/2013
14 Days Against the Israel-Apartheid Lie |
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| From our nation’s Capitol to New York City, down to Florida and across to the West Coast, MP Kenneth Meshoe of South Africa has been on a speaking tour with my organization, the Israel Allies Foundation for the past two weeks with a simple yet fundam ... |
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5/22/2013
Pro-Palestinian ads misrepresent apartheid |
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| As a black South African who lived under apartheid, this system was implemented in South Africa to subjugate people of color and deny them a variety of their rights. In my view, Israel cannot be compared to apartheid in South Africa. |
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5/22/2013
Official PA daily acknowledges Israeli hospital's medical care for Palestinians |
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| The official PA daily reported on a visit by the PA Minister of Health, Hani Abdeen, to Israel's Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The hospital has a special program to train Palestinian doctors to treat cancer among children, reported the PA daily. |
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5/22/2013
Women to watch |
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Six Jews who have proven they are forces to be reckoned with.
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5/21/2013
South Africa parliament member and clergyman makes the case for Israel |
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| LOS ANGELES—Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, a member of the Parliament of South Africa and founder of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), sees irony in how the anti-Israel attitudes of his country’s mainstream politicians are depriving them of be ... |
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