ADL Condemns Benedictine SJP Member for Urging Holocaust Survivor to Denounce Israel

Jewish Journal Oct 29, 2019 BY AARON BANDLER Jonathan Greenblatt Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt condemned a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Benedictine University for asking a Holocaust survivor to denounce the Israeli government’s “ethnic cleansing.” The member Ayah Ali asked Grinnell College Religious Studies Professor Dr. Harold Kasimow during his […]

‘A Day Against Hate’ Event Aims To Combat Anti-Semitic Messages

WataugaDemocrat.com Oct 29, 2019 By Kayla Lasure T.M. Garret speaks to a group on Oct. 27 BOONE — Two men spoke in Boone about their journeys from being anti-Semites to activists during the A Day Against Hate event aimed to combat hate on Appalachian State University’s campus and the wider community. Students and community members […]

Young Israelis Coming To Canada On Mission Of Peace

The Canadian Jewish News October 31, 2019 By Susan Minuk WordSwap delegates pose for a photo after a team meeting at the StandWithUs Israel office A diverse group of young Israelis who represent the tapestry of Israeli citizens – Jewish, Druze, Muslim, Ethiopian, Bedouin, Orthodox, Reform and LGBTQ – will visit Canada for the first […]

StandWithUs, Poway salute shooting victims

San Diego Jewish World October 31, 2019 By Donald H. Harrison Dr. Howard Kaye gave a tribute to his murdered wife at the StandWithUs gala Oct. 27 SAN DIEGO – The Jewish and general communities are honoring the memory of Lori Gilbert-Kaye , who was murdered April 27 by a gunman who barged into Chabad […]

EL AL Ambassadors Program takes flight – again!

October 29, 2019 StandWithUs is proud to begin another year of activity with the EL AL Ambassadors program! First launched in 2011 as a joint initiative of EL AL Israel Airlines, StandWithUs, the Jewish Agency for Israel, and the Israeli Foreign Ministry, this unique program trains pilots and flight attendants to share their Israel stories […]

ACTION ALERT: Show Support for Proposed Federal Change to Protect Jewish Students!

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) annually collects data from public schools and school districts on incidents of harassment and bullying. Beginning in 2015, this data mandated schools to include incidents of discrimination based on a student’s perceived religion. The data returned showing voluminous numbers. As a result, OCR is now […]

Protesters Disrupt Former Israeli Foreign Minister’s Duke Speech

Jewish Journal BY AARON BANDLER OCT 24, 2019 A group of around 20 student protesters disrupted former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s Oct. 23 speech at Duke University. The Duke Chronicle reports that the disruption began at an event hosted by The Duke Program for American Grand Strategy (AGS). Moderator Bruce Jentleson asked Livni about […]

Jewish Students Protest U of I Student Senate Resolution Saying Anti-Zionism Isn’t Anti-Semitism

Jewish Journal BY AARON BANDLER OCT 24, 2019 Photo from Wikimedia Commons The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Student Senate passed a resolution denying a link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism on Oct. 23, causing more than 400 Jewish students to walk out of the meeting in protest. Fox Illinois reports that the resolution passed […]

Czech Parliament House Passes Anti-BDS Resolution

Jewish Journal BY AARON BANDLER OCT 23, 2019 Photo from Wikimedia Commons The lower house of the Czech Republic’s parliament passed a non-binding resolution on Oct. 22 that denounces the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic. The Times of Israel reports that the resolution’s text “condemns all activities and statements by groups calling […]

SJP-sponsored resolution passes University of Illinois student government, hundreds protest

Jewish News Syndicate BY JACKSON RICHMAN October 24, 2019 Accuses Chancellor Robert Jones of having “improperly characterized” SJP presentation as having anti-Semitic content • Jewish campus community not consulted • Strong display of Jewish unity. The campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A resolution introduced by Students […]

How this teen helped ensure anti-Semitism won’t be taught in California

JWeekly BY MICHAELA PELTA OCTOBER 21, 2019 California state Capitol building in Sacramento (Photo/Wikimedia Commons) On Sept. 20, I had the incredible opportunity to go to the State Capitol in Sacramento and fight for a cause close to my heart. In August, the California Board of Education released a draft proposal, the Ethnic Studies Model […]

StandWithUs Condemns Embarrassing Display of Ignorance by Illinois Student Government

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday October 23, 2019 (Champaign, IL — October 23, 2019) — StandWithUs condemns the University of Illinois (UIUC) Student Government (ISG) for passing a disingenuous resolution about antisemitism without consulting the Jewish community or securing their consent. The resolution denies that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, erasing the experiences of Jewish students who have […]

Help Fight Antisemitism at University of Illinois

THE ANTISEMITISM PROBLEM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS In 2019 alone the University of Illinois has experienced multiple incidents of antisemitic activity, including: As unacceptable as these individual antisemitic expressions are, they pale in comparison to a recent attempt to institutionalize antisemitism by making a virulently antisemitic course a mandatory requirement for some university employees: […]

Local StandWithUs High School Interns named

Texas Jewish Post 10 October 2019 Four Dallas area teens are serving as StandWithUs High School interns. They are pictured here from left with StandWithUs Southwest High School Area Coordinator Katie Chavez at the five-day conference held in LA, Aug. 4-8. From left, back row, Ethan Liebnick, Alisabella Ackermann, No’am Gilat-Elbaz; front row, from left, […]

UCLA student files federal complaint against school, alleging anti-Semitism

Campus Reform Oct 13, 2019 By Adam Sabes A student at the University of California – Los Angeles filed a federal complaint against the school Monday, alleging that the university did not adequately respond to an incident of anti-Semitism in spring 2019. StandWithUs, a nonprofit Israel education organization, filed the complaint with Shayna Lavi, the […]

Educating My Peers On Israel – Why I Decided To Become a StandWithUs Canada High School Intern

Fresh Ink For Teens October 16, 2019 By Laura Barkel The author with her parents, Aliza and Steven Barkel. All my life, I have been in love with Israel. Coming from Russian, Iraqi and Israeli lineages, it’s easy to imagine how immersed I was in its culture. Growing up speaking Hebrew, going to a Jewish […]

Anti-Semitic incidents take center stage at University of Illinois faculty meeting

JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) October 16, 2019 BY JACKSON RICHMAN In a campus email, Chancellor Robert Jones wrote: “This exercise was part of a university program created to help students learn to share diverse ideas and perspectives that lead to new understanding. Instead of fostering dialogue, it incited division, distrust and anger.” The campus of […]

ACT TO PREVENT INSTITUTIONALIZED ANTISEMITISM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

THE ANTISEMITISM PROBLEM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS The University of Illinois has experienced a spate of recent antisemitic incidents. At a student government hearing on March 6, 2019, 13 Jewish students spoke about acts of hate they have experienced on campus. They witnessed swastikas in the bathroom of the mathematics building, while studying (outside […]