StandWithUs Calls for Investigation Into Violations of Rules at Oakland, CA City Council Meeting Due to Anti-Israel Bias
(Oakland, California — February 12, 2024) On February 12, 2024, Oakland attorney Mark Cohen, alongside the Oakland-Jewish Alliance, sent a letter to Oakland City Administrator Jestin Johnson and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, calling on them to investigate alleged Title VI and state civil rights violations and antisemitism faced by pro-Israel activists as they opposed […]
Thanking the King County Bar Association Board of Trustees For Taking Remedial Measures to Address Unauthorized Anti-Israel Publication
Dear King County Bar Association Board of Trustees, We write to you from StandWithUs, an international, non-profit organization with the mission of educating about Israel and combatting antisemitism. On behalf of StandWithUs, thank you for your public apology and corrective action after your Bar Bulletin ’s apparently unauthorized decision to publish Dua Abudiab’s “From […]
Georgia’s Governor Kemp Signs the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism Into Law
(Atlanta, Georgia-Jan 31, 2024) — On January 31, 2024, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed HB-30 into law. StandWithUs thanks the governor for enacting this monumental legislation and also congratulates Georgia State Representatives John Carson (R-Marietta) and Esther Panitch (D-Sandy Springs) for their leadership in getting House Bill 30 passed by both houses in overwhelming majorities. StandWithUs […]
StandWithUs pens letter to OSU, issues Jan. 26 deadline to respond to campus antisemitism
By Becky Raspe | Cleveland Jewish News | January 16, 2024 | Updated January 18, 2024 Photo Credit: Shutterstock StandWithUs, an international and non-partisan pro-Israel education organization, sent a letter to The Ohio State University’s leadership on Jan. 15 , questioning the Columbus-based university’s response to the Israel-Hamas war and the rising antisemitism both on […]
StandWithUS: Ohio State ‘grossly failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students’
The Israel-education organization sent a letter to the school’s leadership demanding greater action against campus antisemitism. Jewish News Syndicate | January 18, 2024 Photo Credit: Shutterstock In a letter from StandWithUs to Walter Carter Jr., president of The Ohio State University (OSU), the activist group called for a more proactive approach to defending Jewish students. […]
Pro-Palestinian protests move from streets to state capitals for rowdy start to legislative sessions
By Valerie Richardson | The Washington Times | Thursday, January 25, 2024 Photo Credit: Shutterstock DENVER — State legislatures wield little, if any, influence over U.S. foreign policy, but you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the pro-Palestinian demonstrators converging on state capitols. Crowds of anti- Israel activists are spilling from the streets and universities into […]
GWU professor facing discrimination complaints resigns, heads to Qatar
Lara Sheehi will now teach psychopathology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Jewish News Syndicate | January 25, 2024 Photo Credit: Shutterstock The Israel education nonprofit StandWithUs filed a Title VI complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights against Lara Sheehi , an assistant professor of psychology at George Washington […]
NYU prof caught telling students Hamas baby killings ‘not true’ suspended after shocking clip revealed
By Snejana Farberov and Ronny Reyes | New York Post Published Jan. 25, 2024 | Updated Jan. 25, 2024 Photo Credit: Screenshot An NYU adjunct professor and firebrand pro-Palestinian activist told a group of students at a recent “teach-in” that allegations that Hamas beheaded Israeli babies were “not true” — and denounced New York City […]
StandWithUs Initiates K-12 Network Of School Educators To Counter Bias
By Robert Isler | Jewish Press | January 19, 2024 Photo Credit: StandWithUs StandWithUs (SWU), the influential education organization which has been supporting Israel and combatting antisemitism for over two decades, is spearheading a new initiative that couldn’t have come soon enough. Initially founded in response to the second intifada by Roz Rothstein (CEO), Jerry […]
Letter to the Dept. of Education Urging Oversight to Protect Jewish Students
StandWithUs, partnering with the Zachor Legal Institute and the National Jewish Advocacy Center, wrote to the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights on January 30, 2024. The letter outlines the problem of officially sanctioned anti-Zionist and antisemitic activist groups and student government bodies on college campuses using their administrative-given funding, programming, and powers to ostracize, discriminate against, […]
StandWithUs Rejects ICJ Ruling & Language, but Agrees with Court’s Decision Demanding Hostages be Released and Not Calling for a Ceasefire
( Los Angeles, January 26, 2024 ) The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected a demand by the South African government to order a “ceasefire” that would allow Hamas to remain in power in Gaza, continue to oppress its own people, and rearm for the next massacre of Israeli civilians. However, StandWithUs is appalled by […]
Georgia Adopts IHRA
(Atlanta, Georgia – January 24, 2024) – The Georgia Senate gallery broke out in a standing ovation when HB 30 , which codifies the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism passed by an overwhelming 44-6 vote. HB 30 passed the House earlier that day in a 129-5 vote. The bill ensures that Georgia will […]
StandWithUs Unites Diverse Ethnic Groups in Defense of Israel
By: Donald H. Harrison | San Diego Jewish World | January 9, 2024 SAN DIEGO – Oz Laniado and Ashley Levy have been at the helm of the San Diego regional office of StandWithUs for less than a year and already have built a diverse advisory committee, forged alliances with segments of the non-Jewish community, […]
Pro-Israel Organization Sends Legal Letter to Lehigh About Antisemitism on Campus
By: Jarrad Saffren | Philadelphia Jewish Exponent | January 17, 2024 StandWithUs, a pro-Israel nonprofit that works to combat antisemitism on campus, and Alums for Campus Fairness, which has a similar mission, sent a legal letter to Lehigh University outlining incidents of antisemitism on campus since Oct. 7. “The purpose of this letter is twofold: […]
StandWithUs pens letter to OSU on campus antisemitism, war response
By: Becky Raspe | Columbus Jewish News | January 16, 2024 StandWithUs, an international and non-partisan pro-Israel education organization, sent a letter to The Ohio State University’s leadership on Jan. 15 , questioning the Columbus-based university’s response to the Israel-Hamas war and the rising antisemitism both on campus and across the country. The letter – […]
George Washington University Professor Accused of Antisemitism Leaves School, Heads to Qatar-based Institute
By: Dion J. Pierre | The Algemeiner | January 4, 2024 George Washington University psychology professor Lara Sheehi, who was accused of verbally abusing and discriminating against her Jewish graduate students, has left the school and accepted a job at an institution based in Qatar, according to a correspondence obtained by The Algemeiner . “I […]
Ohio State ‘grossly failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students’
The Israel-education organization sent a letter to the school’s leadership demanding greater action against campus antisemitism. By: JNS | January 18, 2024 In a letter from StandWithUs to Walter Carter Jr., president of The Ohio State University (OSU), the activist group called for a more proactive approach to defending Jewish students. “Since October 7th, antisemitism […]
StandWithUs Letter to Attorneys General January 2024
Dear Attorney General, We write to you from the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department, a division of StandWithUs, an international, nonprofit organization with the mission of educating about Israel and combating antisemitism. Since Hamas’s October 7th invasion—during which Hamas-led terrorists poured into Israel, slaughtered, raped, and tortured over 1,200 people, injured over 5,000 more, and abducted […]
