FEDERAL AND STATE LEGISLATORS COMBAT THE VIRUS OF ANTISEMITISM DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Los Angeles, May 14, 2020) — StandWithUs commends legislators, both federal and state, for taking a strong stand to prevent the further spread of antisemitism and combat discrimination against Israel. The global Coronavirus pandemic has breathed new life into one of the world’s oldest diseases: antisemitism. Antisemitic crimes are on the rise, and old slanders […]

Antisemitism in San Diego May, 2020

StandWithUs is discouraged to hear of recent antisemitism in San Diego. An individual who  wore a mask with a swastika on the front  was seen in several stores. This occurred shortly after media reports of an incident involving a  man wearing a KKK hood as facial covering  in a San Diego grocery store. These longtime symbols of hatred and bigotry […]

Making Sense of Dissonance: Memory in Times of Corona

Times of Israel Yoni Zierler 4/21/2020 75 years ago, Flying Officer Isaac “Bucky” Zierler, would set out to navigate his last mission above Leipzig, Germany. Just before reaching their target, he and the five Royal Canadian Airforce crew-members of his bomber took flak, blowing up their aircraft and its payload. One month before the end […]

The song remains the same

Israel HaYom Yoni Zierler 04-27-2020 Clad in white shirts and blue pants, we filled the gymnasium-cum-auditorium of our Jewish day-school in Cleveland. A sea of Zionism pouring in between the basketball hoops, we took our places in awkward hushed whispers and waited for Israel’s Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of […]

High School Internship from StandWithUs and Gratz College

Philadelphia Jewish Voice RONIT TREATMAN MAY 7, 2020 StandWithUs and Gratz College have partnered to offer the StandWithUs High School Interns college credit for successful completion of the Internship. The StandWithUs High School Internship is a year-long leadership program which prepares high school juniors and seniors for the challenges they may face regarding Israel in […]

Accredited Course for SWU’s High School Interns in partnership with Gratz College Announced May 2020

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons (LOS ANGELES, May 6, 2020) — StandWithUs (SWU) is thrilled to announce a new educational partnership with Gratz College , the oldest private Jewish college in the United States based in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. For the first time since the StandWithUs High School Internship was established in 2012, Interns may […]

StandWithUs Is Participating in #GivingTuesdayNow

May 5, 2020. #GivingTuesdayNow is a new global day of giving and unity that will take place on May 5, 2020. #GivingTuesdayNow offers a unique opportunity for supporters of StandWithUs to make a donation of any amount and see it doubled by a generous, anonymous donor. The virus of antisemitism is spreading along with this […]

In Midst of Coronavirus Pandemic, Israel Remembers Holocaust Victims

Algemeiner 4/21/2020 In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Israel paused on Tuesday to remember the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Across the country, sirens blared for two minutes, while the few pedestrians who were out in public despite lockdown restrictions paused, and drivers pulled their cars over […]

‘Palestine’ Graffiti Found on UMass Hillel

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/21/2020 The Hillel at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst was vandalized with the word “Palestine” written in Arabic on April 21. The graffiti was drawn with red spray-paint on the front of the building. UMass Hillel wrote in a Facebook post that it had been in contact the university and […]

Student collaboration award at Tufts goes to SJP chapter

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate Jackson Richman 4/24/2020 Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Tufts University on Wednesday won a student organization award. The Student Organization Awards ceremony did not take place on campus due to the coronavirus pandemic and instead occurred online. “We are so excited to win the Collaboration […]

Tufts Leaders Say They ‘Strongly Disapprove’ of Award Given to SJP

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/24/2020 Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Senior leaders at Tufts University, including the university’s president, issued a statement on April 24 denouncing an award giving to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) earlier in the week. On April 22, Tufts SJP tweeted it had just won the university’s Collaboration Award because of […]

The Lappin Foundation encouraged StandWithUs

The Jewish Advocate Stephanie Margolis April 29, 2020 You never know who will influence your life and how exactly their touch will impact your future until you have the chance to reflect back. Robert Lappin’s passing hit me in just this way. The Lappin Foundation, through which so many teens have found their way to […]

ConnecTeen: an Innovative Project Enables Israeli Teens to Engage With Their North American Peers

(Jerusalem, April 23rd, 2020) —  As millions of teens worldwide are at home due to Coronavirus pandemic, a group of Israeli and North American teens decided to create an international initiative that connects teenagers abroad through a first-of-its-kind project. The participants of “Tevel” – the StandWithUs Israel international public diplomacy and leadership program for high school students – and the […]

בני הנוער הישראלים שדווקא בצל הקורונה יזמו פרויקט שמחבר בין נוער בישראל ובחו”ל

ירושלים, 23 באפריל 2020 בני הנוער הישראלים שדווקא בצל הקורונה יזמו פרויקט שמחבר בין נוער בישראל ובחו”ל: הכירו את ConnecTeen בזמן שמיליוני בני נוער ברחבי העולם מתבודדים בבתיהם בצל הקורונה, קבוצת בני נוער ישראלים בכיתות י’ החליטו דווקא עכשיו להוביל יוזמה בין-לאומית – ולהתחבר לבני נוער בחו”ל באמצעות פרויקט ראשון מסוגו. חניכי תוכנית ‘תבל’  – […]

Saidoff Legal Department and Center for Combating Antisemitism letter to New York Attorney General

March 25, 2020 VIA EMAIL : Letitia.james@ag.ny.gov The Honorable Letitia James Attorney General of New York Office of the Attorney General The Capitol Albany, New York 12224-0341 Dear Attorney General James, We write on behalf of the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department and the StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism, divisions of StandWithUs (SWU), an international, non-profit […]

The Fallacious Argument About Free Speech and Israel

The Algemeiner JANUARY 29, 2020 by Carly F. Gammill and Jonathan Bell UCLA sign on the University of California, Los Angeles, campus. (Photo: Michael Gordon / Shutterstock) 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 […]

Let us not forget the battle against antisemitism and anti-Zionism

Alan Newman Coronavirus, the silent menace so easily transmitted and disruptive to our lives, awaits an effective vaccine or treatment. As we track the grim statistics, we must rely on public health mitigation practices like social distancing, shelter-in-place, and hand washing. New drugs are being tested, and a flood of ventilators are rushed to help […]

Saidoff Legal Department and Center for Combating Antisemitism letter to Santa Monica College

April 22, 2020 VIA EMAIL: ( jeffery_kathryn@smc.edu ; tuitasi_michael@smc.edu ) Kathryn E. Jeffery, Ph.D. Superintendent and President Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Boulevard Santa Monica, California 90405 Michael Tuitasi Vice President of Student Affairs Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Boulevard Santa Monica, California 90405 Dear Dr. Jeffrey and Mr. Tuitasi, We write on behalf of […]