SWU urges denial of Zoom platform for Leila Khaled
San Diego Jewish World October 19, 2020 Photo: ymphotos / Shutterstock.com LOS ANGELES (SDJW) — StandWithUs, the pro-Israel organization that opposes anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist activities on college campuses, has written to Zoom Video Communications urging the company to deny a platform to airline hijacker Leila Khaled when she is scheduled to address students on Friday, […]
StandWithUs Letter to Zoom re Leila Khaled event at University of Hawaii
October 19, 2020 VIA EMAIL: Eric S. Yuan Founder and Chief Executive Officer Zoom Video Communications, Inc. 55 Almaden Boulevard, 6th Floor San Jose, California 95113 Dear Mr. Yuan, We write on behalf of the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department and the StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism, two divisions of StandWithUs, an international non-profit Israel education […]
StandWithUs Outraged by Antisemitic Attack on a Rabbi in San Diego
San Diego, CA — October 15, 2020 (Screenshot, ABC 10NEWS) StandWithUs is outraged by yet another senseless antisemitic assault. On October 10th, Rabbi Yonatan Halevy of Kehillat Shaar HaShamayim synagogue in San Diego, and founder of the Jewish outreach group Shiviti in University City, was attacked by an unidentified teen on a bike who also […]
Confronting Anti-Semitism on Campus–Fighting the Good Fight, Together
The Jewish Voice Judy Fleischer Menachem Begin’s identification card from University of Warsaw, 1931, where he was among the lead organizers of the self-defense of Jewish students against anti-Semitic rioters. Three years ago, Ofir Dayan, an Israeli student at Columbia University, was on her way to a math class. It was her first semester at […]
Resisting the Normalization of Antisemitism in High Schools
The Algemeiner Yael Lerman October 4, 2020 Photo: Creative Commons An alarming incident recently occurred in Marin County, California, when high school students, associating themselves with Nazis , used social media to target specific Jewish students by name and recruit others to join. This is not an isolated incident. It is astonishingly typical of what […]
CCA Letter re: Reinstatement of Palm Beach District Principal
On Wednesday, October 7, 2020, the Palm Beach County School Board held a special meeting to determine whether to reinstate one of its former principals. William Latson’s employment was terminated last fall after communications with a parent where Latson implied that whether the Holocaust happened was a matter of “belief” rather than fact. Upon learning […]
SWU Offers Additional Reward To Find Arsonist Of Portland’s Chabad House For Jewish Life
Additional Reward Offered To Find Arsonist Responsible For Fires At The Chabad House For Jewish Life – 10/02/20 StandWithUs, an international non-profit organization whose core mission includes combating antisemitism, in partnership with Mizel Family Foundation, has pledged an additional $5000 reward on top of award money provided by Crime Stoppers (see below). This award is […]
Gov. Newsom Vetoes High School Ethnic Studies Class Requirement Bill
California Globe Evan Symon October 2, 2020 On Wednesday, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have added an ethnic studies class requirement to graduate from high school in California. AB 331 vetoed, AB 1460 approved Assembly Bill 331, authored by Assemblyman Jose Medina (D-Riverside), would have added the new requirement starting in the […]
Columbia BDS Referendum Passes
Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler September 29, 2020 Photo: Dmitrii Sakharov / Shutterstock.com A campuswide referendum supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement passed at Columbia University after being voted on last week. Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group that sponsored the resolution, announced on Sept. 29 that the referendum, which the student body voted […]
Univ. of Illinois Student Gov’t Passes BDS Resolution
Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler September 24, 2020 The student government at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), passed a resolution on Sept. 23 calling for the school to divest from companies that conduct business with Israel. The Illinois Student Government (ISG) passed the resolution by a vote of 22-11 with seven abstentions, Jewish News Syndicate […]
Newsom vetoes ethnic studies bill. What will that mean for the curriculum being planned?
Fresno Bee SAWSAN MORRAR OCTOBER 01, 2020 California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have required students to take an ethnic studies class to graduate high school. Newsom said that while he supports the concept of ethnic studies, he had concern about requiring a high school course when “there is much uncertainty […]
Turkish President Calls Jerusalem ‘Our City’
Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler October 1, 2020 “Jerusalem is our city,” Turkey's @RTErdogan declares – Just like Iran’s Ayatollah, this other dictator plays politics with Jerusalem to act like a big man in the Middle East, when his influence is waning and his leadership dragging Turkey down the drain. https://t.co/vbP3pdXOIU — Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) October […]
Pro-Israel Education Group Files Amicus Brief in Support of Fordham University’s Denial
Algemeiner Benjamin Kerstein A pro-Israel education group has filed an amicus brief in support of Fordham University for denying recognition to a campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The New York City university made its decision in 2016 based on SJP’s specific targeting of a single group — i.e. Jews — which, […]
StandWithUs Files Brief Supporting Fordham University’s Decision Not to Recognize SJP
Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler September 30, 2020 Source: Wikimedia Commons StandWithUs filed an amicus brief on Sept. 29 supporting Fordham University’s decision to decline to recognize the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In 2016, Fordham Dean of Students Keith Eldredge wrote in an email to then-student Ahmad Awad, who would have […]
Gov. Newsom vetoes California ethnic-studies bill requiring anti-Israel curriculum
JNS/ Jewish News Syndicate Jackson Richman October 1, 2020 California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would make ethnic-studies courses a high school graduation requirement. Newsom, a Democrat, cited the ongoing pushback over the curriculum for why he vetoed the measure, AB-331. “I value the role ethnic studies plays in helping students think critically […]
StandWithUs Applauds Governor Newsom’s Veto of AB331 and His Call to Fix California’s Ethnic Studies
Photo by: Gage Skidmore (Sacramento, CA, September 30, 2020) — StandWithUs applauds Governor Newsom for vetoing AB331 , which would have made ethnic studies a graduation requirement in California public schools on September 30, 2020. In his veto message , Newsom stated that, “I appreciate the amendments the author accepted to ensure that any ethnic […]
StandWithUs Files Amicus Brief in Support of Fordham University
StandWithUs Files Amicus Brief in Support of Fordham University September 29, 2020 (New York, NY) — StandWithUs, through the invaluable assistance of our pro bono attorney network that works together with the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department and the StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism, filed an amicus brief on September 29, 2020, in the Supreme Court […]
