Top US University Hosting ‘Palestine Literature Festival’ Featuring Avid Anti-Zionists

September 12, 2023 The Algemeiner By Dion J. Pierre Illustrative Anti-Israel event. Photo: Shutterstock The University of Pennsylvania is preparing to host an event that will feature a gamut of anti-Zionist activists who have promoted antisemitic tropes and called for violence against Israel. Set to take place on Sept. 22-24, the “ Palestine Writes Literature […]

The Battle at Home: The Surge of Antisemitism

September 12, 2023 San Diego Jewish World By Oz Laniado SAN DIEGO — Here is the good news: We are going to win this battle because we don’t have a choice. To be able to continue to put Mezuzahs on our doors during the next decade, we better wake up now. In the face of […]

Letter to Withdraw Sponsorship of Conference Awarding Navi Pillay

Campaign Urges Three Law Firms to Withdraw Sponsorship of Conference Awarding Navi Pillay

(New York, NY – September 26, 2023) — StandWithUs International, in cooperation with a coalition of dozens of organizations that play a leadership role in the American Jewish and legal communities (listed below), has launched a major effort calling on three law firms – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP ; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher , and […]

Letter to UPenn Administration re. Palestine Festival

Palestine Festival at UPenn – StandWithUs Statement

StandWithUs International is deeply troubled by the upcoming “Palestine Writes Literature Festival,” which is to be hosted at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN). This event is taking place from September 22nd-24th 2023, beginning before Shabbat and ending immediately before the beginning of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. While the festival is […]

StandWithUs Selects Interns and Fellows For Campus and High School Programs

Jewish Link Sept. 6, 2023 StandWithUs (SWU), a 22-year-old international nonpartisan education organization that supports Israel and fights antisemitism, is pleased to announce the local students participating in the 2023-24 Kenneth Leventhal High School Internship and the Emerson Fellowship. StandWithUs High School Leventhal Interns: New Jersey: Beth Singer, The Frisch School; Sophie Fine, Ma’ayanot Yeshiva […]

Israelis launch solidarity campaign for the women of Iran

Dozens of Israeli organizations and public figures are supporting the #IsraelisloveIranians campaign. Jewish News Syndicate Rolene Marks Sept. 6, 2023 A protester holds a picture of Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish woman whose death in the custody of Iran’s “morality police” has sparked widespread unrest. Source: Twitter. September 16th marks the one-year anniversary of the death […]

NYU Praised by Academic, Civil Rights Groups for Declining to Host Anti-Zionist Conference

The Algemeiner Dion J. Pierre Sept. 6, 2023 A New York University (NYU) building near Washington Square Park. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. US Jewish groups on Wednesday cheered New York University (NYU) for confirming that it will not host a conference that a California-based anti-Zionist organization planned to hold on its campus next month. The Institute […]

NYU Law Says They Will Not Be Hosting Anti-Zionist Conference on Campus

New York University (NYU) School of Law has told the Journal that they will not be hosting the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’s (ICSZ) upcoming conference on campus. The Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler Sept. 6, 2023 A New York University (NYU) building near Washington Square Park. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. New York University (NYU) […]

Israel at 75: The view from Seattle’s Jewish community

The Seattle Times Maxima Patashnik Sept. 7, 2023 The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is a network of 35 local Jewish organizations and dozens of individual leaders representing diverse perspectives and backgrounds. We convene, educate, and advocate on issues of vital concern based on Jewish values, consensus, and respect […]

Rabbis United’s Rosh Hashanah Message: We Proudly Stand With Israel and the Jewish People

(Los Angeles, CA — September 7, 2023) — Rabbis United, (RU) a new a division of StandWithUs, has a Rosh Hashanah message for people of all ages. As a coalition of spiritual leaders from all the denominations of Judaism, the message conveys a deep sense of connection to the State of Israel and a clear […]

StandWithUs Condemns Abbas’ Latest Hate Speech

LOS ANGELES, September 8, 2023 – StandWithUs strongly condemns the August 24, 2023 hate speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas before the Fatah Central Committee that recently came to light. In his speech Abbas rationalized the Nazi genocide against six million Jews by claiming Hitler “fought” the Jews not because of antisemitism but due […]

Newsom Warns Schools Not to Adopt Ethnic Studies Curriculum Pushing Bias, Bigotry, or Discrimination

By: Aaron Bandler | Jewish Journal | August 24, 2023 “An attack on any of our communities is an attack on everything we stand for as Californians.” California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) issued a letter on Wednesday warning schools not to adopt any ethnic studies curriculum that promotes “bias, bigotry or discrimination.” The full letter, […]

StandWithUs to host first major event in North Texas

In recent years, the rise of antisemitism in the United States and abroad has increased dramatically. At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 6, StandWithUs, a nonpartisan education organization that supports Israel and fights antisemitism, will have its first program in North Texas. The free event will be held at Chabad of Dallas, 6710 Levelland Road […]

StandWithUs Sends Letters to UCSC and NYU Regarding ICSZ Conference

(Los Angeles, CA — September 1, 2023) — On September 1st, the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department and the Center for Combating Antisemitism sent letters to administrators at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and New York University (NYU) expressing concern about the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’s (ICSZ) upcoming conference, “Battling the […]

Letter to NYU from StandWithUs regarding October 2023 ICSZ conference on IHRA definition

Letter to UCSC from StandWithUs regarding October 2023 ICSZ conference on IHRA definition