Orthodox Jews Slam New Amazon Prime Regulations

The Washington Free Beacon Santi Ruiz FEBRUARY 19, 2021 Photo: Claudio Divizia / Shutterstock.com Orthodox Jews are slamming a new Amazon policy they say will shut them out of a coveted program that allows sellers to ship goods directly from non-Amazon warehouses as “Prime” products. The changes, which were announced in August 2020 and instituted […]

Federal Appeals Court Sends Arkansas Anti-BDS Law to Lower Court

Jewish Journal By Aaron Bandler February 16, 2021 A United States federal appeals court sent Arkansas’ anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) law back to a lower court on February 12. The case in question stems from 2018, when one of the advertisers for The Arkansas Times, the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College ceased ties with […]

Mezuzah smashed, swastika carved into doorframe of Jewish student’s home in the Netherlands

Jewish Telegraphic Agency FEBRUARY 18, 2021 AMSTERDAM ( JTA ) — A swastika was carved into the doorframe of a Jewish student’s house in the Dutch city of Maastricht and the mezuzah was torn off. The Maastricht University student discovered the damage to his mezuzah, an object containing scripture on parchment that Jews affix to […]

Long Beach City College Board of Trustees Criticized for Not Voting on IHRA Resolution

Jewish Journal By Aaron Bandler February 17, 2021 Photo: Justin / Creative Commons Jewish groups are criticizing the Long Beach City College Board of Trustees for not voting on a resolution adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism during their January 27 meeting. During the meeting, which was the same day as […]

Next chapter: BDS, anti-IHRA bills fail at Florida State University

Southern Jewish Life Magazine February 12, 2021 Photo: Nagel Photography / Shutterstock.com Continuing a year of drama over the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the student senate at Florida State University dealt a large setback to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement by soundly rejecting three anti-Israel resolutions. The resolutions were written by Ahmad Daraldik, who had been […]

California’s ethnic-studies curriculum

Heritage – Florida Jewish News By Roz Rothstein February 12, 2021 (JNS) — For more than a-year-and-a-half, StandWithUs has worked tirelessly together with concerned citizens and partners to remove anti-Semitism, anti-Israel bias and other destructive ideas from California’s draft Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. At the same time, we have pushed for the inclusion of positive […]

Advocates see federal court decision on Arkansas anti-BDS law ‘disappointment,’ not setback

Jewish News Syndicate BY SEAN SAVAGE “StandWithUs is confident that the desire of the state—to refuse to use taxpayer dollars to enter into contracts with companies that discriminate against Israel—will prevail,” said co-founder and CEO Roz Rothstein. (February 16, 2021 / JNS) A federal appeals court on Feb. 12 ruled that an Arkansas anti-BDS law […]

SWU Confident of Reinstatement of Arkansas Anti-BDS Law

(Los Angeles, CA — February 13, 2021) — In 2017, Arkansas joined the majority of U.S. states in passing an anti-BDS law which denies state contracts to companies which engage in discriminatory practices towards Israel. The AR law was challenged ( Arkansas v Waldrip) , and the challenge dismissed in 2019 when the court found […]

Former Portugal leader sends anti-Jewish COVID tweet, Nazi salutes on Portuguese TV

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate FAYGIE HOLT February 11, 2021 Rodrigo Sousa Castro. Source: YouTube/United With Israel. A leader of Portugal’s 1974 revolution is being criticized after he posted anti-Semitic tweets earlier this week about the COVID-19 vaccine. The criticism comes just days after a contestant in a Portuguese TV show was kicked off the air for […]

Israeli tech turns air into water for Native Americans

Israel21C Naama Barak FEBRUARY 12, 2021 Israeli technology is set to convert air into clean drinking water for Native American communities in the United States as part of a collaboration between Israeli and American enterprises. A crowdfunding campaign is underway to supply four Watergen GEN-M water generating machines to Native American communities in need. The […]

Top 40 Latin American pro-Israel advocates and leaders

Jewish News Syndicate BY ELIANA RUDEE February 10, 2021 Israel maintains full diplomatic relations with all the countries of Central and South America, and the Caribbean region (with the exception of Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela). In recent years, pro-Israel Latin American influencers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, have further transformed the relationship. Andre Lajst (Brazil) @AndreLajst […]

UIUC Student’s Israeli Flag Egged

Jewish Journal By Aaron Bandler February 10, 2021 Photo: Killivalavan Solai An Israeli flag draped over a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) student’s balcony was egged on February 8. WCIA reported that the student, Jeremy Zelner, heard something hit one of his apartment windows at 1:00 A.M., and he found that 10-20 eggs had been […]

StandWithUs Strongly Condemns Antisemitic Divestment Resolution at UC Irvine

Wikimedia Commons, Mikejuinwind123 (Irvine, CA — February 10, 2020) — StandWithUs strongly condemns the passage of an antisemitic student government resolution to divest from companies doing business with Israel. The Associated Students of the University of California in Irvine (ASUCI) Senate passed the resolution with a vote of 19 in favor and 3 against on […]

Florida State University student senate rejects pro-BDS, anti-IHRA resolutions

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate February 9, 2021 The student senate at Florida State University rejected a series of resolutions that supported the anti-Israel BDS movement and rejected the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition on anti-Semitism. The resolutions, which were authored by former student senate president Ahmad Daraldik, who came under fire for past anti-Semitic statements […]

StandWithUs Congratulates FSU Students for Defeating Hateful pro-BDS, anti-IHRA Resolutions

(Tallahassee, FL — February 8, 2021) — StandWithUs applauds Florida State University (FSU) students for defeating hateful and misleading Student Senate resolutions which supported BDS and attacked the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism. The resolutions were authored by former Student Senate President Ahmad Daraldik, who repeatedly used his position to promote antisemitism in 2020. After […]

Get to Know StandWithUs New England

StandWithUs New England is working with teens throughout the Greater Boston area and beyond to educate about Israel and combat antisemitism. Jewish Boston FEBRUARY 8, 2021 StandWithUs New England has been resilient throughout the last year continuing to program and support teens here in the Greater Boston area through educational Israel programming and combating antisemitism. […]

StandWithUs Letter to Amazon Regarding Concerning Changes to Amazon Seller Fulfilled Prime

February 1, 2021 Via Email : ( davidz@amazon.com ) David Zapolsky General Counsel Amazon.com, Inc. P.O. Box 81226 Seattle, Washington 98108-1226 Dear Mr. Zapolsky, We write on behalf of the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department, a division of StandWithUs, an international, non-profit Israel education organization, expressing concern about Amazon’s recent changes to Seller Fulfilled Prime (SFP), […]

StandWithUs Pans Politicized ICC Decision as a Misapplication of International Law

(LOS ANGELES, February 7, 2021) – In the wake of the International Criminal Court’s decision claiming jurisdiction to probe Israel for “war crimes,” Roz Rothstein, StandWithUs CEO and Co-Founder, issued the following statement: “ The ICC’s decision to accept jurisdiction to investigate Israel for so-called war crimes is unbalanced and clearly based on a well […]