Kansas Treasurer introduces bill permitting the state to invest in Israel Bonds

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate Feb. 20, 2019 Kansas State Treasurer Jake LaTurner has introduced a bill that would allow Kansas to invest in Israel Bonds. Kansas State Treasurer Jake LaTurner. Credit: Jake LaTurner/Facebook. “This legislation is an important step in diversifying our portfolio,” said LaTurner. “Twenty-eight other states across the country have similar authority and have […]

StandWithUs Reaffirms Opposition to All Forms of Racism and Support for Israeli Democracy

As a non-partisan Israel education organization, StandWithUs cannot advocate for or against parties or policies in Israeli (or American) elections. That said, we can and do strongly condemn racism and support for terrorism, whether such rhetoric comes from Palestinian leaders, extremist politicians in Israel, or bigots anywhere else. In the 1980s and 1990s Israel banned […]

StandWithUs commends Kansas State Treasurer for Win-Win Bill to Purchase Israel Bonds February, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Topeka, Kansas February 20, 2019) StandWithUs commends Kansas State Treasurer Jake LaTurner for introducing a bill allowing Kansas to Invest in Israel Bonds. Passage of the bill will be a win-win for Kansas and Israel. Roz Rothstein, CEO of StandWithUs, is enthusiastic about this bill. “Kansas will hopefully join 28 states who […]

Code Pinker Ariel Gold is Failing at BDS

IsraellyCool Aussie Dave Feb 17. 2019 Code Pink BDS-hole Ariel Gold has trolled the StandWithUs Twitter account, responding to a tweet showing this video. Clearly, Gold want us to believe she does the boycott thing properly (as opposed to the BDS movement itself). So allow me to assist her. Ariel, you are doing it all […]

Rancho Mirage Writer’s Festival: Woodstock For The Mind

Desert Sun Dale Gribow February 16, 2019 Swaddle next year’s award for “best event of the season” and send it now to Jamie Kabler, founder of the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, aptly applauded the best in the country. The 6th Season was celebrated at the RM Library for 3 days with Executive Producer Debbie Green, […]

Jewish leaders skeptical of Omar’s apology

Washington Examiner John Gage February 15, 2019 Rep. Ilhan Omar. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has failed to quell concerns among Jewish leaders and groups both nationally and in her district that she has learned from her recent controversial comments many viewed as anti-Semitic. Jewish leaders told the Washington Examiner that they […]

Israeli Technion Will Make a Stop in Los Angeles for 2019 Tour

Jewish Journal ERIN BEN-MOCHE 2/15/2019 From Left: Tamar Rott Shaham and Dmitry (Dima) Glinets. Photos provided by Miller Ink. Israeli Technion will once again visit Los Angeles as part of its yearly U.S. tour to spread awareness of Israel’s latest technological advances and start up culture. For more than 25 years, students have traveled to […]

Anti-Semitic posters found outside Tufts Hillel

JNS/Jewish News Service Jackson Richman February 13, 2019 More than a dozen anti-Semitic and anti-Israel posters were discovered outside the Hillel at Tufts University on Tuesday morning, bearing images of militarized pigs, including at least one consisting of a caption that reads “DESTROY ISRAELI APARTHEID FORCES AND AMERIKKKAN PIGS WHICH FUND IT. FREE PALESTINE.” Rabbi […]

Ambassadors, All! 13th Year of StandWithUs Israeli Fellowship

Jerusalem – December 9, 2018 – For an elite group of 150 articulate and diverse young Israeli men and women, their service does not end as they leave the IDF: they join the StandWithUs Israel Fellowship, building bridges & educating people of all faiths & ages about Israel. As Israel faces challenges to its legitimacy […]

Fighting Terror, Battling BDS and the Law: StandWithUs J.D. Fellows Summit in Israel

Meeting Adv. Marlene Mazal from the Attorney General’s Dept for a discussion on legal issues relating to counter-terrorism StandWithUs once again hosted a unique legal-centric mission for the participants of our Saidoff Legal Department’s J.D. Fellowship. The mission brought leading pro-Israel students from Loyola, Pepperdine, UCLA, USC, and Southwestern University to learn about Israel’s legal […]

Model UN delegates learn how to engage with international counterparts about Israel

StandWithUs Israel hosted delegates from the prestigious Model UN program for session on how to encourage dialogue about Israel Director of Operations Ilana Sherrington-Hoffman presented with a Certificate of Appreciation StandWithUs Israel hosted a group of Israeli Model UN in the Education Center in Jerusalem for an empowering session on how to encourage effective dialogue […]

Primer for Businesses: How Corporate Participation in BDS Risks Legal Liability

In recent months, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) activists have targeted American corporations doing business with Israel in their smear campaign against the Jewish State. Activists use dishonest rhetoric about “human rights” to justify this boycott. While corporate participation in legitimate social justice movements is admirable, business should avoid boycotting Israel for both moral and legal […]

GUPS: Hateful and illegal activity is never justified

Students reportedly affiliated with GUPS disrupting Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat at San Francisco State University. Students representing the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) recently published a  morally disgraceful statement . They attempted to justify their illegal disruption of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat’s speech at SFSU on April 6, […]

Holding Disruptors Accountable

By Yael Lerman Mazar Yael Lerman Mazar Earlier this week, when Electronic Intifada attacked StandWithUs in general and me personally, this indicated that the pro-Israel community is doing something right. The article incredulously highlighted StandWithUs’ recent request to Minneapolis prosecutors that anti-Israel agitators responsible for an illegal disruption of a pro-Israel event be brought to […]

Reem’s Oakland Bakery Drops Lawsuit to Silence Protests Against Mural of Terrorist Rasmea Odeh

Legal Insurrection  William Jacobson  October 10, 2017 Reem’s bakery in Oakland, CA, prominently displays a full-wall mural of Rasmea Odeh, who recently was deported for immigration fraud. Rasmea is the former military member of the terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who was convicted in Israel in 1970 of the 1969 supermarket bombing […]

StandWithUs Congratulates UC Irvine for Sanctioning SJP

StandWithUs Congratulates UC Irvine for Sanctioning SJP on August 30, 2017 Wikipedia (Irvine, CA – September 5, 2017) — StandWithUs congratulates the University of California at Irvine (UCI) for sanctioning Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), after SJP illegally disrupted a Students Supporting Israel (SSI) event on May 10, 2017.  On August 30, the university  announced  that […]

University of Michigan, Dearborn Administration to Review Policies After Pressure by StandWithUs

by Rachel Frommer Mock parking tickets on the windshields of cars in a University of Michigan at Dearborn (UM-Dearborn) lot last month — which accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and other crimes – were placed there by two people in “Muslim garb,” a witness told The Algemeiner on Wednesday. UM-Dearborn student Amanda Gosline said that […]

UC Irvine Clears Pro-Israel Student Group Of Harassment Charges

February 22, 2018 By Aiden Pink Facebook A pro-Israel student group at the University of California, Irvine has been cleared of harassment charges by the school after pro-Palestinian students claimed that they were subjected to intimidation by visiting Israeli reservists. The club, called Students Supporting Israel, was found not responsible for violating UC Irvine’s student […]