California advisory board to vote on proposals to ethnic-studies curriculum

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate November 13, 2020 The flag of California. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. An advisory board to California’s board of education is scheduled to vote next week on recommended changes to the state’s proposed ethnic-studies curriculum. The Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) is expected to vote on the recommended changes by the California Department of Education (CDE) […]

ISResilience: Resilience as an inherent element of the Israeli psyche

Jerusalem Post NEVILLE TELLER NOVEMBER 12, 2020 The authors of this volume, Michael Dickson and Naomi L. Baum, decided to invent a portmanteau term for its title. They chose to do so, one imagines, because they believe that the issue they are concerned with is unique and needs its very own descriptive label. Unpacked, it […]

University Presidents: Please Speak Out Against A Convicted Terrorist Lecturing At Your University

November 12, 2020 VIA EMAIL RE: Campaign Promoting Convicted Terrorist Leila Khaled Dear University Presidents, We write on behalf of the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department and the StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism, divisions of StandWithUs, an international, non-profit education organization supporting Israel and combating antisemitism. We previously wrote to you about your administration’s role in […]

StandWithUs Condemns Campaign to Prevent Positive Changes to the CA Ethnic Studies Curriculum

(Los Angeles, CA — November 11th, 2020) — StandWithUs supports numerous recommendations by the California Department of Education (CDE) to change the state’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC), along with additional clarifications and revisions. We urge the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) to adopt changes which will improve the curriculum at its November 18th meeting, and […]

TELL CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS: Keep Bias and Hate Out of Our Schools

Photo by Andre M, Wikipedia We need your help to keep hate and bias out of California public schools, and we have made it EASY for you. Just fill out the form below to email California education officials, urging them to fix the state’s ethnic studies curriculum. BACKGROUND INFORMATION In September, we asked you to […]

StandWithUs Statement on Passing of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Everyone at StandWithUs is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Rabbi Lord Sacks, an inspirational leader in the Jewish world and beyond. We will remember him as a giant in Torah learning, a man who stood up against antisemitism, who spoke with with a moral voice that resonated far beyond the Jewish community […]

Jewish Organizations Demand Resignation of Long Island Sanitation Commissioner Over Antisemitic Face

The Algemeiner NOVEMBER 3, 2020 Oceanside Sanitation Commissioner Ryan Hemsley. Photo: Courtesy of Ryan Hemsley. Jewish organizations in Long Island have demanded the immediate resignation of the sanitation commissioner in the town of Oceanside because of a series of racist and antisemitic posts on social media. A statement on Monday issued by the Jewish Community […]

Twitter Bans Anti-Semite for Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler November 4, 2020 Twitter has banned David Icke, who has been criticized for promulgating anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. A Twitter spokesman told Yahoo! News UK that Icke “has been permanently suspended for violating Twitter’s rules regarding COVID misinformation.” Icke’s tweets on the matter have included “the discredited claim […]

For Bat Mitzvah, she traveled to Israel virtually

San Diego Jewish World November 1, 2020 SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Sarah Golembsky and her family hoped to celebrate her Bat Mitzvah with a trip to Israel, but like many other B’nai Mitzvah, the pandemic made it impossible for her celebration to go as planned. She had to get creative. Sara and her family […]

After 1,300 messages about Holocaust-denying principal, Florida board delays rehiring vote

World Israel News Josh Plank October 22, 2020 Due to an overwhelming level of public feedback, the school board of Palm Beach County, Florida, was forced to delay a vote Wednesday night to reverse the rehiring of William Latson, a high school principal who was fired last year after telling a parent that he couldn’t […]

StandWithUs Statement on EHRC Report into UK Labour Party

London, October 29, 2020 The fact that a major political party in Britain was even referred to let alone investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission is a stain on the reputation of the UK Labour Party. Jews have played a growing and central role in British life since arriving in England during the […]

StandWithUs Welcomes the Sudan-Israel Rapprochement

(Jerusalem, Israel — October 23, 2020) — Since 1967, Khartoum, Sudan has been known as the place where the Arab League declared “The Three No’s”: No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel. Today, Sudan announced that it is the third Arab nation in the last month to say “yes” […]

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 […]