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 […]

StandWithUs Statement on the Proposed Peace Plan Unveiled at The White House, January 2020

January 28, 2020 Zach Rudisin, Wikipedia Since its Declaration of Independence, which made the Jewish people free again in their ancestral home, Israel has yearned for peace with its neighbors. Despite being forced to defend themselves from war and violence brought to their borders by surrounding governments and terrorist groups, Israelis have invested in peace […]

Why an Iranian Jewish College Student Says ‘Never Again’

The Algemeiner Chloe Levian 1/24/2020 Photo: Michael Oh My family’s story is one of overcoming persecution and antisemitism. You see, my family is originally from Iran. I know firsthand the importance of having Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people, because my mom, a Jewish woman living in Iran, was able to escape the […]

Pro-Israel groups urge University of Michigan to cancel SJP conference featuring ‘vicious’ anti-Semi

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate Sean Savage and Jackson Richman January 21, 2020 Several pro-Israel groups are urging the University of Michigan to cancel an upcoming conference at the school that is featuring anti-Israel groups and speakers that “have a long record of vicious anti-Semitism,” according to Roz Rothstein, co-founder and CEO of StandWithUs. The event, titled […]

A high-schooler struck back at anti-Semitism the best way she knew how: On Instagram.

Charlotte Observer THÉODEN JANES JANUARY 17, 2020 Photo Credit: XAVIER TIANYANG WANG, XWANG@MCCLATCHY.COM Abby Adams was given her first Star of David when she was in elementary school, but at the time, she says, it was just a pretty necklace to her — she didn’t really understand the symbol’s significance. Here’s what she did understand: […]

StandWithUs Conference Teaches Students How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Jewish Journal BY AARON BANDLER JAN 20, 2020 Under the banner “Israel in Focus,” this year’s StandWithUs (SWU) International Conference focused on educating students about anti-Semitism and how to fight it. The pro-Israel educational organization’s conference was held at the Hyatt Regency Los Angeles International Airport hotel over the Jan. 17-19 weekend, and was sponsored […]

World Zionist Supreme Court Enables the Zionist “Dream Team” to Run in 2020 WZC Elections

For more information and interviews, please contact Sarri Singer or Ran Fuchs at info@votekolyisrael.com . January 21, 2020 World Zionist Supreme Court Intervention Enables the Zionist “Dream Team” to Run in 2020 World Zionist Court Elections Kol Yisrael, an exciting new slate led by StandWithUs and the Israeli American Council, the two fastest growing Zionist organizations in […]