Statement on the Shooting at Shabbat Services in Poway

The Chabad congregation in Poway, California. (Google Street View) StandWithUs staff and Board members around the world are shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific shooting at the Chabad Congregation in Poway during Shabbat services on 4/27. The shooter murdered  Lori Gilbert Kaye, and wounded three others. Those injured include the Chabad Rabbi, Yisroel Goldstein. Also […]

Divestment Bill Fails at University of Maryland

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/25/2019 A bill calling for divesting from companies that conduct business with Israel failed during the University of Maryland’s student government meeting on April 24. Twenty-five were against and nine were in favor, with two abstentions. The Diamondback, the university’s student-run newspaper, reported that 74 students spoke out against the bill […]

University of Maryland Rejects Controversial BDS Resolution

The Tower 4/25/2019 In a major setback for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, the University of Maryland’s Student Government Association (SGA) on Wednesday evening rejected a resolution calling on the school to “divest from companies engaged in human-rights violations in Palestine.” The pro-BDS resolution was rejected by nine votes in favor, 25 […]

BDS resolution at University of Maryland fails

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate Jackson Richman 4/25/2019 The University of Maryland’s student government on Wednesday evening rejected a resolution calling on the school to “divest from companies engaged in human-rights violations in Palestine.” The final tally was nine votes in favor, 25 against and two abstentions. The vote coincided with Passover, which began at sundown on […]

‘No, Jesus Was Not a Palestinian’: Why Jews, Christians Are Blasting Ilhan Omar Again

CBN Emily Jones 04-25-2019 Jews and Christians are calling out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and the New York Times for promoting the idea that Jesus was Palestinian, and not a Jew living in Roman-occupied Judea. Omar faced backlash after she retweeted a tweet from Omar Suleiman, an American Muslim scholar and civil rights activist, accusing […]

University of Maryland student government rejects Israel divestment resolution

JTA 4/25/2019 The student government of the University of Maryland rejected an Israel divestment resolution. The resolution was defeated on Wednesday night after a five-hour meeting by a vote of 25 against, 9 in favor and 2 abstentions. Read the article here.

Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at UCLA and Santa Monica College hosted two South African students

Jewish Journal Ryan Torok 4/242019 From left: Thando Mlauzi, Isaac Dayan, Mmamalema Molepo, Jessica Khalili, Justin Feldman and Klaas Mokgomole participated in a pro-Israel speaking tour at UCLA and Santa Monica College. Photo courtesy StandWithUs Klaas Mokgomole from the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg and Mmamalema Molepo from the University of Cape Town believed that […]

StandWithUs Congratulates UMD Students for Defeating Discriminatory Divestment Resolution 4/24/19

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ( College Park, Maryland, 4/24/19 ) — StandWithUs congratulates students at the University of Maryland (UMD) for defeating a discriminatory divestment resolution. The UMD Student Government Association (SGA) rejected the legislation with a vote of 9 in favor, 25 against, and 2 abstaining. “We are very proud of the students at UMD […]

Middlebury College professor takes leave of absence after Nazi poison-gas test question

Jewish National Syndicate / JNS.org Jackson Richman April 22, 2019 Middlebury College professor takes leave of absence after Nazi poison-gas test question The question’s preamble stated, “Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) is a poisonous gas, which Nazi Germany used to horrific ends in the gas chambers during The Holocaust.” It then asked to calculate how much of […]

What’s in a name? | Guest opinion Why Israel and Palestine are not interchangeable names.

Mercer Island Reporter Randy Kessler April 18, 2019 An April 12 Mercer Island Reporter column on a visit of Islanders to the Middle East had an unusual headline: “Mercer Islanders make pilgrimage to Palestine.” As Executive Director of StandWithUs Northwest, an organization that educates about Israel and fights anti-semitism, and a 12-year Island resident, I […]

Pro-Israel Organizations Urge UMass to End Departments’ Sponsorship of Anti-Israel Panel

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler April 23, 2019 Eighty pro-Israel organizations wrote an April 23 letter to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst calling on the university to end all departmental sponsorship of an upcoming anti-Israel panel. The May 4 panel at the Fine Arts Center, titled “Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech, & the Battle […]

StandWithUs Southeast High School Intern receives prestigious award

Mazel tov to StandWithUs Southeast High School Intern Tayla Rosenthal as a recipient of The Anne Frank Humanitarian Award. This prestigious award honors students for their outstanding humanitarian efforts in their school and community. We are so proud of all her leadership efforts.Tayla has created the largest TLC chapter in the country and so far […]

University of Maryland Student Government to Hold BDS Vote During Passover

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/18/2019 University of Maryland’s Student Government Association (SGA) will be holding a vote on a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution on April 24, in the middle of Passover. As first reported by Algemeiner, Maryland Hillel capital campaign director Elan Burman informed Hillel community members about the upcoming vote in an […]

BDS Proposal Fails at UC Santa Barbara for Sixth Time

The Algemeiner Shiri Moshe 4/11/2019 Student leaders at the University of California, Santa Barbara rejected a divestment resolution targeting Israel on Thursday, marking the sixth time the measure failed to pass in recent years. In a secret ballot vote of 14-10 and no abstentions, the Associated Students Senate shot down a proposal directing the university […]

UC Santa Barbara, Cornell reject BDS efforts

San Diego Jewish World 4/16/2019 LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs congratulates students at UC Santa Barbara and at Cornell University for defeating discriminatory divestment resolutions on April 11. The Associated Students of UC Santa Barbara (ASUCSB) rejected the legislation with a vote of 10 in favor, 14 against, and 0 abstaining. At Cornell, the […]

UCSB student gov spikes Israel divestment resolution

Campus Reform Fiona Moriarty-McLaughlin 4/17/2019 Members of UC Santa Barbara’s Associated Students Senate shot down a resolution asking the school to divest from certain companies conducting business in Israel. The student government rejected the resolution in a 14-10 secret ballot vote around 5 a.m. Thursday morning following a ten-and-a-half-hour meeting Wednesday night, the Daily Nexus […]

ONE VOTE decided Cornell’s Israeli divestment resolution

Campus Reform Matthew Stein 4/16/2019 Cornell University’s Student Assembly rejected an anti-Israel Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) resolution on Thursday by a vote count of 15-14 with one abstention. The vote count included “two votes allocated to community members that were awarded against the resolution,” reported The Cornell Daily Sun. William A. Jacobson, a Cornell law […]

Palestinian Group at Cornell Tells Israeli Student ‘Quit Complaining’ About Rockets

CBN News Steve Warren 4/16/2019 A pro-Palestinian group at Cornell University told an Israeli student through a Facebook post to “quit complaining” about a rocket attack that blew up her home in Israel on the Gaza border. According to The College Fix, Shir Kidron recounted a 2009 Gaza missile attack in the April 7 Cornell […]