UCLA Prof Dismisses Concerns of Lack of Pro-Israel Balance on ‘1948’ Panel

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/17/2019 James Gelvin, a history professor at UCLA, dismissed concerns of the lack of pro-Israel voices during a panel discussion inside the West Hollywood City Council Chambers on April 16, asking if it would be required for there to be a panel defending Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s actions. Gelvin was on […]

Elan Carr Calls Out BDS: ‘Hatred of the Jewish State Is Hatred of the Jewish People’

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler APR 16, 2019 Elan Carr, the recently appointed State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, criticized the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement during an April 16 press conference for promulgating “hatred of the Jewish people.” Carr was asked by a reporter if he viewed the BDS movement as […]

Divestment Resolution Fails at Cornell

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler April 12, 2019 A resolution calling for Cornell University to divest from companies that conduct business with Israel failed at the April 11 Student Assembly meeting. The Cornell Daily Sun reports that 14 members of the assembly voted in favor of the resolution and 13 voted against, with one abstention. However, […]

Cornell’s student government rejects BDS resolution

Jewish National Syndicate / jns.org Jackson Richman April 12, 2019 Cornell’s student government rejects BDS resolution “I have been extremely disappointed by the way this resolution has been handled by everyone involved,” said junior Savanna Lim. “You can’t expect a student government to solve a geopolitical crisis.” Cornell University’s student government rejected a resolution on […]

Cornell Students Vote Down Divestment Resolution Targeting Israel After Acrimonious Campus Debate

The Algemeiner Shiri Moshe April 12, 2019 The Student Assembly at Cornell University in Ithaca voted on Thursday against adopting a divestment resolution targeting companies over their ties to Israel, following a campus debate that multiple students decried as acrimonious. While a majority of SA members voted via secret ballot to adopt the measure — […]

Pro-Palestinian Cornell group tells Israeli student ‘quit complaining’ about rocket attacks

The College Fix April 13, 2019 A Cornell University pro-Palestinian organization told an Israeli student via a Facebook post to “quit complaining” about having to deal with rocket attacks from the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip. In an April 7 Cornell Daily Sun op-ed, Shir Kidron recounted a 2009 Gaza missile attack which struck her home: “A […]

Holocaust survivor recalls miracle of Israel’s founding

South Florida Sun Sentinel Genia Kutner 4/1/2019 During the war I was lucky to survive with my parents and brother; another died from pneumonia. He was 2 years old. I was 11. My brother was 13. When the Nazi’s neared our town – Pinsk in Poland – in 1941, we fled towards Russia. We were […]

University of California, Santa Barbara student government rejects Israel divestment again

Jewish Telegraphic Agency Marcy Oster April 11, 2019 (JTA) — The student government at the University of California, Santa Barbara rejected an Israel divestment resolution. Santa Barbara is the only school in the University of California system whose student government has not passed a divestment proposal targeting Israel, according to the student newspaper, the Daily […]

Divestment Vote Fails at UCSB

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler April 11, 2019 The vote on UC Santa Barbara divesting from companies that conduct business with Israel failed by a margin of 14-10 at 5 a.m. on April 11. The Daily Nexus reports that the Associated Students Senate meeting, which began at 6:30 p.m. on April 10, lasted around 10 and […]

Unlike other UC university branches, Santa Barbara rejects anti-Israel resolution

Jewish National Syndicate / JNS.org Jackson Richman April 11, 2019 (April 11, 2019 / JNS) After more than nine hours of debate, students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, rejected a resolution early Thursday morning that, had it passed, would have followed other student governments in the University of California system that already passed […]

BREAKING: Anti-Israel motion at UCSB fails, again

The College Fix Daniel Payne April 11, 2019 BDS provisions have failed repeatedly at the school in recent years The student government at the University of California, Santa Barbara failed to pass an anti-Israel resolution there this week, marking yet another failed attempt to formally endorse the boycott, divestment and sanction movement. Read the full […]

StandWithUs Congratulates Cornell Students for Defeating Discriminatory Divestment Resolution

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2019 StandWithUs Congratulates Cornell Students for Defeating Discriminatory Divestment Resolution ( Ithaca, New York, 4/11/19 ) — StandWithUs congratulates students at Cornell University for defeating a discriminatory divestment resolution. The Student Assembly at Cornell University rejected the legislation with a vote of 14 in favor, 15 against, and 1 abstaining. […]

UC Santa Barbara Students Defeat a Discriminatory Divestment Resolution

(Santa Barbara, CA, April 11, 2019) — StandWithUs congratulates students at UC Santa Barbara for defeating a discriminatory divestment resolution. The Associated Students of UC Santa Barbara (ASUCSB) rejected the legislation with a vote of 10 in favor, 14 against, and 0 abstaining. “We are incredibly proud of the students at UC Santa Barbara who […]

Senator Paul Boyer led the Arizona Legislature in passage of anti-boycott legislation

(Phoenix, AZ — April 10, 2019) Senator Paul Boyer led the Arizona Legislature in passage of anti-boycott legislation.  The bill (SB1167), which passed both houses with a significant bipartisan majority, clarifies Arizona’s original anti-boycott law by removing its application to sole proprietorships and individual consumer conduct. The bill, which Governor Doug Ducey has promised to sign, updates the […]

Roundup Of New Haggadahs Hitting The Shelves This Year

Times of Israel Steve Lipman 4/9/2019 Many Haggadahs seek to fulfill the imperative of making the seder participant feel that he or she is experiencing the exodus from the biblical land of slavery on the journey to the Bible’s Promised Land. The StandWithUs Passover Haggadah: “From Ancient Egypt to Modern Israel,” published by the Los […]

Jewish, pro-Israel groups react positively to US designation of IRGC as terrorist group

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate Jackson Richman 4/9/2019 Firing a Zelzal 3 in the Great Prophet VI military exercise by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on June 26, 2011. Credit: Mohammad Sadegh Heydari via Wikimedia Commons. Prominent Jewish and pro-Israel organizations reacted positively to the Trump administration announcing on Monday that the United States will officially designate […]

ADL, Other Jewish Groups Applaud Airbnb for Changing Its Policy

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/9/2019 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other Jewish groups applauded Airbnb for announcing on April 9 that it would be rescinding its policy of de-listing Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria. As first reported by Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Airbnb’s reversal came as part of a settlement with Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center, […]

Israeli Cornell Student Told to ‘Quit Complaining’ by Pro-Palestinian Campus Group

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/10/19 A pro-Palestinian group at Cornell University mocked an Israeli student whose home was struck by a rocket from the Gaza Strip by telling her in a Facebook comment to “quit complaining about how it ruined your brunch plans.” The student, Shir Kidron, wrote in an April 7 op-ed for the […]