Illinois high school district in the spotlight for ‘Teaching Palestine’ course

Jewish News Syndicate /JNS.org Jackson Richman May 30, 2019 An Illinois school district is under fire for a course offered to teachers titled “Teaching Palestine.” The Niles Township High School District 219 serves Lincolnwood and parts of Morton Grove, Niles and Skokie in Cook County, home to Chicago. There are an estimated 291,800 Jews in […]

SWU pressure leads UCLA to probe anti-Zionist incident

The Jerusalem Post Yonah Jeremy Bob May 30, 2019 While SWU will maintain a watchful eye on whether UCLA follows through on promises in its response to probe the incident for evidence of discrimination and harassment, the quick response from the administration appeared to signal that it has the university’s attention. Stand With Us (SWU) […]

Palestinian Uber Driver Refuses Ride to Jewish Women

Jewish Journal Melissa Simon May 29, 2019 A Palestinian Uber driver kicked two Jewish women out of his car on May 19 after he learned they were leaving the Israeli-American Council (IAC)’s Celebrate Israel Festival at nearby Rancho Park. In a phone interview with the Journal, Dayna, (who requested only her first name be used […]

Pitzer President Visits University of Haifa

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler May 28, 2019 Pitzer College President Melvin Oliver visited the University of Haifa in Israel, where he spoke out against academic boycotts. Oliver spoke to around 200 people at the University of Haifa’s 47th annual Board of Governors meeting on May 28. He said given Pitzer Professor Daniel Segal’s frequent pro-boycott, […]

StandWithUs Calls on UCLA to Address Anti-Semitism on Campus

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler May 28, 2019 StandWithUs called on UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jerry Kang to take action against the “disturbing trend of anti-Semitic incidents at UCLA” in a May 24 letter. The letter, which was written by StandWithUs CEO and Co-Founder Roz Rothstein, Saidoff Legal […]

ACTION ALERT! Niles North and West offering biased, misleading, anti-Israel course to its faculty

School District 219, serving Lincolnwood, Skokie, Morton Grove and Niles is offering “Teaching Palestine,” a biased, misleading, anti-Israel course to their staff at Niles North and West High Schools. The course objectives are to “teach about Palestine and the Palestine liberation struggle..against the current political context of Israeli occupation of Palestine.” The staff will be […]

StandWithUs Condemns Antisemitism of Incoming Northwestern Faculty Member Steven Thrasher

(Chicago, IL – May 29th, 2019) — StandWithUs is extremely disturbed that Steven Thrasher, who has spread antisemitism on social media, is joining the faculty of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications on June 1, 2019. Thrasher, whose virulently anti-Israel speech at an NYU graduation ceremony in May, shocked and disturbed many […]

StandWithUs Legal Department Sends Warning Letter to UCLA Admin May 24, 2019

May 24, 2019 VIA EMAIL (chancellor@ucla.edu; jkang@equity.ucla.edu) Gene Block, Ph.D. Chancellor University of California, Los Angeles Office of the Chancellor 2147 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, California 90095 Jerry Kang Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion University of California, Los Angeles 2147 Murphy Hall, Box 951405 Los Angeles, California 90095 Dear Chancellor Block and Vice […]

NYU President ‘Shocked’ At Grad Speaker’s Anti-Semitic Tweets

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 5/24/2019 New York University (NYU) President Andrew Hamilton told the Journal that he was “shocked at NYU Doctoral Graduate and soon-to-be Northwestern University Professor Steven Thrasher’s recently unearthed anti-Semitic tweets and that Thrasher shouldn’t have spoken at the May 20 Graduate School of Art and Sciences (GSAS) convocation ceremony. Thrasher endorsed […]

NYU Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ‘Disappointed’ in Grad Speaker’s Remarks

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 5/24/2019 New York University (NYU) Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Phillip Harper told NYU Doctoral Graduate and soon-to-be Northwestern University Professor Steven Thrasher he was “disappointed” in Thrasher’s May 20 remarks. Thrasher expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, praised NYU’s Students for Justice […]

UCLA Guest Lecturer Calls Zionists White Supremacists

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 5/21/2019 During a guest lecture to a UCLA anthropology class on May 14, San Francisco State University Arab and Muslim Ethnicities Professor Rabab Abdulhadi called Zionists white supremacists. Abdulhadi spoke to around 100 students in the Fowler lecture hall during a mandatory lecture for the Anthropology M144P: Constructing Race class, taught […]

UCLA guest lecturer compares Zionists to white supremacists

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate May 22, 2019 A guest lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, last week labeled Zionists as white supremacists, reported Jewish Journal on Tuesday. A Jewish student in the class, Shayna Lavi, recalled to the Journal that San Francisco State University Arab and Muslim ethnicities’ professor Rabab Abdulhadi, told the some […]

Swastika Found in SF State Bathroom

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 5/22/2019 A swastika with the caption “free Palestine” was found drawn on a bathroom in San Francisco State University (SFSU) May 22. SFSU student Daniel Yeluashvili, president of the SFSU pro-Israel student group I Team, told the Journal in a phone interview he found the swastika in the third floor bathroom […]

Israeli talks about life in his country

Lake Oswego Review Barb Randall 5/23/2019 StandWithUs, an international nonprofit Israel education organization, has partnered with the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland to provide high school students an opportunity to learn about Israeli life. Inspired by a love of Israel and the belief that education is the road to peace, StandWithUs is dedicated to educating […]

Steve Kramer – Celebrating Israel’s 71 Anniversary

Israel Seen Steve Kramer 5/20/2019 Just 71 years ago, Israel declared its independence based on several factors: God promised the Land of Israel to the Jews in the Bible – echoed in the Christian Bible and even (gasp!) in the Koran. Three ancient Jewish kingdoms in Israel are part of archaeological and historical records. Early […]

Holocaust survivor speaks to students

PHS News Katie Valenti May 21, 2019 Mary Wygodski, who is 93 years old, addressed 120 students about her time in the Holocaust and surviving Jewish oppression every day on May 2 in the media center. Jewish Student Unions president, sophomore Carol Kornworcel, put on the event with Rayna Exelbierd’s help. “Having Mary come speak […]

Williams College Recognizes Pro-Israel Group

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 5/21/2019 Williams College, the private liberal arts college in Williamstown, MA, officially recognized the pro-Israel group Williams Initiative for Israel (WIFI) as a student group on campus May 14. On April 23, the Williams College Council voted against designating WIFI as a Registered Student Organization (RSO), meaning that the group wouldn’t […]

“I want to bring people together”:Rachel Rubins tackling both international crises & her junior year

Knight Crier Alexis Bamford May 22, 2019 Rubins addresses members of the organization Stand With Us at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia (December 2018). “In a world full of prejudice and hate, peace can only be possible through education,” Rachel Rubins spoke, sweeping her eyes from the floor to ceiling of […]