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 […]

Follow Up Letter to Johns Hopkins University Regarding Antisemitic Twitter Posts by TA

December 16, 2020 Via Email : ( rdaniels@jhu.edu ; yarkony@jhu.edu ) Ronald J. Daniels President The Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St., 242 Garland Hall Baltimore, Maryland 21218 David Yarkony, Ph.D. Chair and D. Mead Johnson Professor of Chemistry The Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St., Remsen 310 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Dear President […]

Letter to Johns Hopkins University Regarding Antisemitic Posts from Graduate Researcher and TA

December 3, 2020 Via Email : ( rdaniels@jhu.edu ; yarkony@jhu.edu ) Ronald J. Daniels President The Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St., 242 Garland Hall Baltimore, Maryland 21218 David Yarkony, Ph.D. Chair and D. Mead Johnson Professor of Chemistry The Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St., Remsen 310 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Dear President […]

It’s Time to Be Unapologetically Jewish

The Algemeiner by Karen Shalev January 3, 2021 A playing field at Worcester State University. Photo: Wiki Commons . 2020 has seen even more antisemitism, following the FBI’s 2019 report stating that Jews experienced over 60% of religious-based hate crimes despite making up less than 2% of the population. The Anti-Defamation League marked Massachusetts as […]

Congress Passes Bill to Raise Status of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism

San Diego Jewish World Donald Harrison December 31, 2020 Jewish organizations hailed congressional passage of a bill that would elevate the status of the U.S. Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism to the rank of ambassador. The position currently is held by Elan Carr. “Today’s vote puts America one step closer to sending an unambiguous […]

SWU Salutes the US Congress for Elevating the Antisemitism Special Envoy Position to Ambassador

On December 31, 2020, at the very last legislative session of the 116th Congress, the House of Representatives passed legislation (HB 221) authored by Rep. Chris Smith to elevate the State Department’s Anti-Semitism Special Envoy position to that of Ambassador. The bill already passed the Senate. StandWithUs salutes the US Congress for making the fight […]

UC Merced launches probe into professor’s anti-Semitic tweets

San Francisco Chronicle Vanessa Arredondo Dec. 30, 2020 UC Merced is launching an investigation into whether a professor who maintained a Twitter account rife with anti-Semitic remarks and images broke any of the school rules, and what, if any consequences the university ought to impose. Abbas Ghassemi, a teaching professor in the UC Merced School […]

UC Merced opens inquiry into professor’s antisemitic tweets

The Jewish News of Northern California BY GABRIEL GRESCHLER DECEMBER 29, 2020 The University of California, Merced has launched an inquiry into the conduct of Abbas Ghassemi, a teaching professor at the university’s School of Engineering who was the owner of a Twitter account that had a pattern of antisemitic posts . “The opinions presented […]

UC Merced Announces Investigation Over Professor’s Anti-Semitic Tweets

Jewish Journal By Aaron Bandler December 30, 2020 UC Merced Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Gregg A. Camfield announced in a December 29 statement that the university is launching an investigation into Engineering Professor Abbas Ghassemi’s tweets that “crossed the line” into anti-Semitism. Some of the tweets in question included […]

UC Merced Calls for Inquiry Into Professor Who Engaged in Social Media Antisemitism

The Algemeiner by Benjamin Kerstein December 30th, 2020 The University of California Merced chancellor and executive vice-chancellor on Tuesday called for an inquiry into a School of Engineering professor who posted antisemitic and anti-Zionist tweets for nearly two years. Abbas Ghassemi used his Twitter account to, among other things, charge “Zionists” and Israel with controlling […]

StandWithUs Calls on UC Merced to Discipline “Anti-Semitic” Prof

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler December 28, 2020 The pro-Israel educational organization StandWithUs sent a letter to UC Merced on December 24 calling on it to take action against Professor Abbas Ghassemi over his use of “antisemitic statements and images on social media.” StandWithUs CEO and co-founder Roz Rothstein, Saidoff Legal Department Director Yael Lerman and […]

StandWithUs Calls Out Jew-hating UC Merced Professor

San Diego Jewish World Donald Harrison December 29, 2020 SAN DIEGO – Should faculty at the state-funded University of California at Merced be teaching the following? “The Zionist Brain” is divided into such sections as “Frontal Money Lobe,” “World Domination Lobe,” “Control,” “Land Usurpation,” and “Elitism.” Or how about this? “The Zionists and IsraHell interest […]

SWU Letter to UC Merced Urging an Investigation of Antisemitic Professor Abbas Ghassemi

(Merced, CA — December 28, 2020) — The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department and StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism wrote to UC Merced on December 24, 2020 expressing dismay after learning that Abbas Ghassemi, a teaching professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering department, posted a series of discriminatory and antisemitic statements and images on his […]

StandWithUs Letter to UC Merced Regarding Antisemitic Tweets from Professor

December 24, 2020 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: Investigation and Action Urged […]

StandWithUs Congratulates Fordham University for Legal Victory Against SJP

For Immediate Release StandWithUs Congratulates Fordham University for Legal Victory Against SJP (New York City, NY – December 22, 2020) – StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department and Center for Combating Antisemitism congratulate Fordham University on its clear victory on December 22, 2020 in New York’s appellate court—finding that Fordham was squarely within its rights to deny […]

Tufts Student Body Condemns Israel Security Program

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler December 21, 2020 Bendetson Hall at Tufts University (Photo from Wikimedia Commons) The student body at Tufts University voted in favor of a referendum on December 19 calling for the university to apologize for having its former police chief participate in a security training program in Israel. Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) […]

StandWithUs Condemns Antisemitic Referendum at Tufts University

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Boston, MA — December 21, 2020) — StandWithUs condemns the passage of an antisemitic resolution at Tufts University, which scapegoats Israel and Jewish groups for police brutality in the United States. On November 24 , it passed with a vote of 1725 in favor, 665 against, and 161 abstaining. On December 21, […]

TELL CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS: Keep Bias and Hate Out of Our Schools

Photo by Andre M, Wikipedia We need your help to keep hate and bias out of California public schools, and we have made it EASY for you. Just fill out the form below to email California education officials, urging them to revise the state’s ethnic studies curriculum and reject pressure from anti-Israel extremists. BACKGROUND INFORMATION […]