Former IDF Officer Speaks to California Students About Israel’s Humanitarian Aid to Syrians

The Algemeiner by Algemeiner Staff FEBRUARY 14, 2020 Former IDF officer Eyal Dror during a speaking tour of California universities in February 2020. Photo: Students Supporting Israel. A former Israel Defense Forces officer who led a humanitarian response to the bloody Syrian conflict recently spent a week touring university campuses in California, in a bid […]

After six-hour debate, University of Illinois student government passes BDS resolution

JNS February 13, 2020 BY JACKSON RICHMAN Illini Students Supporting Israel board member Aaron Merlin, a junior, told JNS that the vote was wrong and not representative of the overall university community. Students, faculty and clergy gather at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a vote to pass a BDS resolution on campus, a […]

StandWithUs Condemns the Illinois Student Government For Voting Yes To Divestment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 12, 2020 StandWithUs Condemns the Illinois Student Government For Voting Yes To Divestment (Champaign, IL, 02/12/2020) — StandWithUs condemns the University of Illinois (UIUC) student government (ISG) for passing a discriminatory and misleading resolution to divest from companies doing business with Israel. It passed with a vote of 20 in favor, […]

MSU Student Educates Perpetrator Who Stole Her Mezuzah

The Jewish News Maddy Gun February 4, 2020 Maddy Gun takes action to educate the suspect who stole her mezuzah from her doorpost on campus. I am the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. At 8 years old, my grandfather was hiding in the woods for more than two years with his brother, who was 18. […]

Home Local Article Jewish student teaches thief a lesson

WILX 10 NBC Kylie Khan February 10, 2020 “I came back to my apartment one day, and I saw that my mezuzah was ripped off and stolen,” said Gun. The decorative case held a prayer and is often found on the doorpost of Jewish homes. Gun filed a police report with East Lansing police who […]

Anti-Semitism on US campuses may force schools to choose free speech or bigotry

Times of Israel Cathryn J. Prince February 11, 2020 NEW YORK — Long before she stood on a podium with US President Donald Trump, before she became the young woman who sued New York University, she was Jewish college student Adela Cojab, who studied Arabic and liked kanafeh. Back in 2015, Cojab was a freshman […]

University of Illinois student government set to vote on ‘divisive’ BDS resolution

JNS / Jewish New Syndicate Jackson Richman February 11, 2020 The student government at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is scheduled to vote on a BDS resolution on Wednesday that calls on the university to divest from “companies that profit from human-rights violations in Palestine and other communities globally,” as well as from […]

StandWithUs Condemns Discriminatory UNHRC Blacklist

(Geneva — February 12th, 2020) — StandWithUs strongly condemns the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) discriminatory blacklist targeting companies that do business with Jews in the West Bank/Judea & Samaria released  on February 12, 2020. Flag of the U.N. (Photo: Andrea Izzotti / Shutterstock.com) “Multiple UN Secretary Generals have publicly admitted that the UNHRC systematically […]

Georgetown Research Project Calls Hamas a ‘Political and Social Organization’

Jewish Journal BY AARON BANDLER FEB 5, 2020 White-Gravenor Hall, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. (Photo: Jon Bilous / Shutterstock) A research project at Georgetown University has a fact sheet that refers to Hamas as “a political and social organization.” The Bridge Initiative, which describes itself on its website as “a multi-year research project […]

Amid chaos, UC Berkeley student government delays vote against terrorist display

Jewish News Syndicate BY JACKSON RICHMAN February 5, 2020 “Jewish students were repeatedly harassed, heckled and threatened with physical threats of violence … Jewish students should never feel threatened and should NEVER fear for their safety while on campus,” posted campus group Tikvah: Students for Israel, on Facebook. Students with UC Berkeley’s “Bears for Israel” […]

StandWithUs Offers Rewards to Catch Perpetrators of Hate Crimes Against Jews Anywhere in the World

(Los Angeles, CA — February 3, 2020) — StandWithUs and the Mizel Family Foundation are proud to announce the launch of a fund dedicated to combating antisemitic hate crimes. Effective immediately, StandWithUs will offer cash rewards to individuals who provide law enforcement with information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who engage in […]

Clarification of the StandWithUs book list that was printed in The Forward

February 2, 2020 This weeks edition of the Forward includes a reading list attributed to me and StandWithUs. We sent the list in response to a specific question: “What books should Jared Kushner read to help create a peace plan?” The list that was printed was meant to offer readers an opportunity to learn about […]

StandWithUs ‘Israel in Focus’ International Conference Recap

The Times of Israel Eli Kia January 26, 2020 “This conference taught me what the word Zionist truly means,” said Gila Braun, who attends Notre Dame High School in Los Angeles, CA. StandWithUs (SWU) shared its mission of educating about Israel and combating antisemitism with over 550 diverse high school and university students from around […]

Jewish nonprofit AJC puts ‘significant investment’ in new Arabic media platforms

The Times of Israel Amanda Borschel-Dan January 30, 2020 The 114-year-old American Jewish Committee launched a new series of brief Arabic-language video explainers about Jews and Judaism on Thursday, along with new Arabic language social media platforms. The launch comes on the heels of increased Jewish-Muslim outreach efforts, including a high-profile, unprecedented AJC-organized visit to […]

BBC Segment on Holocaust Says Israel ‘Has Occupied Palestinian Territories’

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler January 23, 2020 Various Jewish groups are criticizing the BBC for saying that Israel “has occupied Palestinian territories” during a Jan. 22 segment dedicated to the Holocaust. BBC reporter Orla Guerin said over B-roll of attendees at Yad Vashem after interviewing a Holocaust survivor, “The state of Israel is now a […]

Using the Power of the Executive to Protect Jewish Students

The American Spectator Ziva Dahl January 27, 2020 With the signing of his Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism in December, President Trump declared that Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bars discrimination against Jewish students at federally funded educational institutions. Trump also adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, mandating […]

The Fallacious Argument About Free Speech and Israel

The Algemeiner Carly F. Gammill and Jonathan Bell January 29, 2020 In a recent Los Angeles Times op-ed, UCLA Professor David Myers and Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller claim that StandWithUs’ Title VI complaint against UCLA — in conjunction with President Trump’s December 11 Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism — is part of a larger organization-wide agenda […]

Welcome Home Naama

January 30, 2020 StandWithUs applauds the release of Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar, after her unacceptable detention by the Russian government. Naama was held in multiple Russian prisons for over 8 months, on false charges of attempting to smuggle drugs into the country. StandWithUs and many others around the world united around a campaign to free […]