Jewish leaders honor Sheldon Adelson during global online memorial

Las Vegas Review-Journal January 22, 2021 Photo by: vasilis asvestas / Shutterstock Jewish leaders came together Thursday for a global memorial event for business giant and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson . The CEO and chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp. died last week at age 87 from complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The online […]

College TA Under Investigation for Asking Whether to Lower Pro-Israel Students Grades

Newsweek BY ALEXANDRA GARRETT January 21, 2021 Photo by: Andriy Blokhin / Shutterstock Johns Hopkins University is investigating a pro-Palestinian teaching assistant after discovering tweets about lowering pro-Israel students’ grades. “We are aware of an incident of alleged anti-Semitism and potential abuse of authority in the discharge of academic responsibilities on our campus,” university officials […]

StandWithUs Announces Connect for Progress, Connecting Communities Worldwide to Israeli Solutions

(Los Angeles — January 18, 2021) — StandWithUs has launched a groundbreaking new initiative called Connect for Progress. We are taking Israel activism to the next level by identifying practical challenges communities are facing, matching those challenges with unique Israeli solutions, and empowering our network to advocate for those solutions locally. We will announce a […]

UC Merced Prof Won’t Teach Next Semester Following Anti-Semitic Tweets

Jewish Journal By Aaron Bandler January 18, 2021 UC Merced Engineering Professor Abbas Ghassemi will not be teaching at the university during the upcoming spring semester following a controversy over his anti-Semitic tweets. Ghassemi’s tweets in question include a tweet of “The Zionist Brain” and another tweet stating that “the Zionists and IsraHell interest have […]

What apartheid?

Jewish News Syndicate/ JNS Yoseph Haddad January 17, 2021 Last week, I woke up one morning in my Nazareth home and was astonished to discover I was living under a racist, apartheid regime whose only purpose is “the promotion and perpetuation of the superiority of one group of people—the Jews.” I rubbed my eyes, read […]

Students get a lesson on Zionism and antisemitism

Jewish Rhode Island January 7, 2021 Top row (left to right): Stephanie Margolis, StandWithUs New England high school coordinator and Carly Gammill, director StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism. Bottom row: Eliza Kanner, StandWithUs New England campus coordinator PHOTO | STANDWITHUS High school and college students explored the truth of the oft-repeated phrase, “I’m not anti-Semitic, […]

Jewish Groups React to Passing of Sheldon Adelson

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler January 12, 2021 Several Jewish groups issued statements mourning the death of GOP megadonor and Jewish philanthropist Sheldon Adelson on January 12. Adelson, 87, died after suffering complications from his treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; he had taken a leave of absence for the treatment on January 7. Adelson’s widow, Miriam, said […]

New “StandWithUs Connect” Online Menu Makes Israel Education More Accessible Than Ever

Menu of options for educational sessions aimed at reaching out to groups around the world Los Angeles – January 14, 2021 When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, everything, including education, was disrupted. StandWithUs worked quickly to pivot to offering online sessions, interactive workshops and tours. Now, the organization is launching an online menu offering groups around […]

UCR Professor: “Zionism Politically Toxified Our Schools”

Jewish Journal By Aaron Bandler January 12, 2021 Photo: Amerique at Creative Commons A UC Riverside professor tweeted on January 12 that “Zionism politically toxified our schools.” The tweet in question came regarding a debate on Twitter over the #DefendEthnicStudies. Groups that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement like Jewish Voice for Peace had […]

Students are key to fighting antisemitism in high schools. I should know.

J. The Jewish News of Northern California BY MICHAELA PELTA | JANUARY 11, 2021 As a leader in my school and a Jewish Student Union liaison for the West Coast, I was contacted by multiple Jewish students who presented me with images of inappropriate social media postings by students at Lowell High School. The postings […]

StandWithUs Mourns the Loss of Philanthropist, Sheldon G. Adelson

(Los Angeles, January 12, 2021) – The Board and leadership of StandWithUs were extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Sheldon G. Adelson, an unequivocal supporter of Israel, Jewish causes and a philanthropist to a multitude of non-profits that helped the community at large. The generosity of Sheldon Adelson has resulted in support for […]

Johns Hopkins teaching assistant suspected of lowering Jewish students’ grades

The Forward Stewart Ain January 7, 2021 Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has launched a probe into allegations against a university teaching assistant for “alleged anti-Semitism and potential abuse of authority in the discharge of academic responsibilities on our campus.” The campus Hillel is calling upon students to contact its office if they suspect the […]

Meet the ‘Abraham Accords Youth Forum’, peacemakers of the future

Jerusalem Post January 7, 2021 Tevel, StandWithUs’s Israeli high school leadership program, held the first meeting of the “Abraham Accords Youth Forum” on Tuesday. The forum involves a series of virtual meetings in which Israeli youth meet with their counterparts from countries that Israel has signed peace agreements in the past year, such as the […]

Teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins threatened to fail pro-Israel students

Jewish News Syndicate January 6, 2021 Credit: Andriy Blokhin / Shutterstock.com While the university has not issued a formal statement on the incident, Sunil Kumar, from the university’s provost office, said in an email to StandWithUs that it is “aware of the incident.” (January 6, 2021 / JNS) Anti-Semitism watchdog groups are raising alarm over […]

A New Generation of Peacemakers: The “Abraham Accords Youth Forum” is Launched

The new Abraham Accords Youth Forum, launched by ‘Tevel’ – the Israeli high school leadership program of StandWithUs and partners – brings Israeli youth together with counterparts from the UAE, and soon other Gulf and Arab countries (Jerusalem, Israel — January 6th , 2021) — When the leaders of Israel and the UAE gathered to […]

Third letter to Johns Hopkins University regarding Teaching Assistant with antisemitic tweets

January 6, 2021 Via Email : ( provost@jhu.edu ) Sunil Kumar, Ph.D. Provos and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street, 265 Garland Hall Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Dear Senior Vice President and Provost Kumar, We write on behalf of the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department and the StandWithUs Center […]

Report Reveals More Anti-Semitic Tweets from UC Merced Professor

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler January 5, 2021 A new report has revealed more anti-Semitic tweets from UC Merced Professor Abbas Ghassemi. The conservative website Washington Free Beacon reported on January 5 that the Stop Antisemitism.org watchdog has compiled a dossier on Ghassemi’s tweets. Among them included a retweet hailing the Iranian Shiite terror proxy Hezbollah […]

StandWithUs Follow Up Letter to UC Merced Administration with Additional Tweets from Professor

January 5, 2021 VIA EMAIL: ( chancellormunoz@ucmerced.edu ; twpeterson@ucmerced.edu ) Dr. Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Ph.D. Chancellor University of California, Merced 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 Dr. Thomas Peterson, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus and Chair (BIOE) University of California, Merced School of Engineering 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 RE: Additional Twitter Posts Allegedly […]