Legal Actions and Successes - July to December 2024
With the exponential increase in antisemitism since October 7, we have received an unprecedented influx of requests for help to our legal...
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Nov 261 min read
2024 Campus Champions Gala
Nearly 400 people united at the 2024 Campus Champions Gala to celebrate strength, resilience, and our unwavering commitment to fight...
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Nov 261 min read
Eylon Levy 2024 "Voice of the People" Canada Tour
Over the span of a week in Fall 2024, StandWithUs Canada had the privilege of touring Former Israeli Government Spokesman Eylon Levy...
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Nov 131 min read
High School Kids Beg Administration: “Step Up; Educate Your Students!”
By: Alexandra Chana Fishman | The Times Of Israel | Nov 13, 2024 In August 2024, StandWithUs held the annual Kenneth Leventhal High...
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Nov 82 min read
StandWithUs Horrified by Pogrom Attack in Amsterdam
(Courtesy: Screenshot) (November 8, 2024) StandWithUs is horrified by the pogrom that took place in Amsterdam on November 8, 2024 ...
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Oct 313 min read
IsraelLINK and Jewish National Fund-USA Announce Strategic Educational Partnership
(November 1, 2024 — Los Angeles, CA) — IsraelLINK, a division of StandWithUs, a leader in digital Jewish identity and Israel education...
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Oct 311 min read
Letter to San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliot
StandWithUs wrote to San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliot requesting that she bring charges in the cases of 65 people arrested for...
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Oct 301 min read
StandWithUs Asked That Boiler Room, a Music Broadcast Platform, Investigate and Address Harassing Antisemitic Conduct at Los Angeles DJ Event
StandWithUs requested that the Boiler Room company address a recent incident at one of it's recent DJ events in Los Angeles, when someone...
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Oct 293 min read
It’s time to correct Wikipedia’s dangerous anti-Israel bias - opinion
A clear double standard exists, whereby for anti-Israel terrorists, Wikipedia frequently buries the devils in the details and places the...
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Oct 296 min read
StandWithUs expands dramatically since 2001
By Chris Leppek | Intermountain Jewish News | October 2, 2024 StandWithUs founders and directors Roz and Jerry Rothstein, with Miri...
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Oct 231 min read
StandWithUs Sends Letter to Stony Brook University Seeking Administrative Action Regarding Antisemitism
StandWithUs sent a letter to Stony Brook University asking its leadership to address a discriminatory anti-Israel lecture in...
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Oct 135 min read
Former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus in town for StandWithUs reception
”We are dealing with terrorists that believe that Jews do not have a right to exist in this land that we call Israel.” By David Rullo |...
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Oct 133 min read
Pro-Hamas Group Planning Oct. 7 Celebration in New York City
By Dion J. Pierre | The Algemeiner | October 2, 2024 (Screenshot) Within Our Lifetime (WOL), one of the most outspoken anti-Israel...
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Oct 132 min read
‘The irony of becoming what you once hated’: Milwaukee mural intertwines Star of David with swastika
There's outrage from group working to combat antisemitism By Kristin Pierce | WISN | September 12, 2024 (Screenshot) MILWAUKEE — The...
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Oct 133 min read
“When we look into their eyes, we see their stories”: New exhibition honors October 7 victims
Graffiti artist Benzi Brofman honors those killed and kidnapped in the Hamas massacre with a moving multimedia exhibition blending art...
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Oct 111 min read
StandWithUs Sends Letter to Gaming Convention Decrying Capitulation to Radical Activists
The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department wrote a second time to the organizers of Big Bad Con, a gaming convention scheduled for...
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Oct 112 min read
Jewish Students at Brown University Celebrate Victory as the Brown Corporation Rejects Divestment Proposal
(Providence, Rhode Island - October 10, 2024) — StandWithUs congratulates the Jewish students at Brown University, including two...
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Oct 16 min read
Standing United: Thoughts from Jewish Interns at StandWithUs
To Whom It May Concern, On September 1, 2024, we woke to find ourselves grappling with grief and loss once again. With pain mirroring the...
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Sep 305 min read
Brandeis Center/ADL/StandWithUs Expand Helpline on Antisemitism in K-12 Schools to Massachusetts and New York
(Boston, MA, September 30, 2024) --. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), and...
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Sep 263 min read
StandWithUs and 36 Organizations Urge Covington & Burling Law Firm to Withdraw Its Sponsorship of Conference Due to Host’s Celebration of Navi Pillay
(New York, NY) -- On September 24, 2024 a coalition of 37 leadership organizations in the American Jewish and legal communities (listed...
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Sep 261 min read
StandWithUs Requests from UC Chancellors Proof of Compliance with UC Policy
On September 23, 2024, StandWithUs sent a letter to all ten UC Chancellors, requesting proof that they indeed have fulfilled their...
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Sep 251 min read
StandWithUs Urges Action in Washington State, Bellevue School District, for Ignoring Antisemitism in Violation of District Policy and State Law
In April 2024, StandWithUs contacted the Bellevue School District in Washington State about increasingly antisemitic incidents at their...
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Sep 251 min read
StandWithUs Sends Letter to Board Game Convention Offering Advice in the Face of Antisemitic Boycotters
The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department wrote to the organizers of Big Bad Con, a board game convention scheduled for October 2024 in...
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Sep 241 min read
StandWithUs Sends Letter to The New School Seeking Administrative Action Regarding Antisemitism
On September 23, StandWithUs sent a letter to administrators at The New School (1) addressing a departmental newsletter replete with...
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Sep 231 min read
StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department Files Amicus Brief in Lawsuit Seeking to Hold UNRWA Accountable for October 7 Terrorism
The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department filed an amicus brief in the Southern District of New York on September 27, 2024 along with the...
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Sep 194 min read
StandWithUs Will Open October 7th Memorial Exhibition To Run from September 24 Through October 30 at its Katz Education Center in Jerusalem
The exhibition will feature acclaimed Israeli graffiti artist Benzi Brofman’s portraits of victims of Oct. 7th including hostages still...
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Sep 183 min read
StandWithUs Announces New Criminal Justice Division within the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department
(LOS ANGELES, CA) -- On September 18, 2024 , StandWithUs announced a new criminal justice division within its StandWithUs Saidoff Legal...
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Sep 184 min read
SUNY Purchase Leaders Violated Students’ Rights and Rewarded Jew-Hating Rhetoric; They Must Be Held Accountable
By Esti Heller | The Algemeiner | September 11, 2024 When I first met Milagros “Milly” Peña — the president of SUNY (State University of...
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Sep 182 min read
‘The irony of becoming what you once hated’: Milwaukee mural intertwines Star of David with swastika
There’s outrage from group working to combat antisemitism By Kristin Pierce | WISN | September 12, 2024 Screenshot The outside of a...
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Sep 185 min read
Education Is Power
By Julianne Katz | Jewish Link | August 29, 2024 StandWithUs students in Los Angeles StandWithUs is an international, nonpartisan...
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Sep 122 min read
StandWithUs Salutes the City of Miami Beach for Anti-BDS Ordinance
Miami Beach, Florida - September 11, 2024 StandWithUs congratulates Commissioner David Suarez and the City of Miami Beach Council for...
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Sep 82 min read
UMich student government criticized by pro-Israel org for withholding student funds in divestment demand, calls it a ‘gross abuse of power’
By Michael Duke | Campus Reform | September 5, 2024 A pro-Israel organization criticized the University of Michigan’s student...
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Aug 264 min read
Pittsburgh Organizers Stopped an Effort to Boycott Israel; But It Was Far Too Close
By Julie Paris | The Algemeiner | August 22, 2024 The city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is known for many things: bridges, steel,...
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Aug 261 min read
StandWithUs Files Amicus Brief at the U.S. Supreme Court Advocating for Employees' First Amendment Rights Not To Be Represented by Antisemitic Union
City University of New York ("CUNY") professors learned that CUNY's union issued an antisemitic resolution after October 7. Though six...
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Aug 203 min read
Press Release: StandWithUs Files Title VI Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against SUNY Purchase for Egregious Antisemitic Targeting by Student Government, Enabled by Administration
Los Angeles, CA – The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department, a division of StandWithUs, along with a current student and a recent...
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Aug 201 min read
Title VI Complaint Filed Against SUNY Purchase by StandWithUs
StandWithUs Files Title VI Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against SUNY Purchase for Egregious Antisemitic Targeting by Student Government...
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Aug 203 min read
Pittsburgh Jewish Community Successfully Defeats Illegal and Discriminatory BDS Referendum Item
Community Relations Council Director Laura Cherner (left) stand with attorneys Efrem Grail, Carolyn McGee and Ronald Hicks, StandWithUs...
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Aug 132 min read
Pittsburgh Jewish Community Fights Back Against Unlawful BDS Referendum Item
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) — On August 13, the Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh and a coalition of four local Jewish clergy filed a legal...
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Aug 123 min read
A Dallas School District Is Being Investigated for Antisemitism; Here’s How Other Schools Can Avoid That Fate
By: Jenna Statfeld Harris | Algemeiner | Aug 5, 2024 On July 15, 2024, the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...
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Aug 92 min read
StandWithUs Condemns Targeted Violence Against Hindu Community in Bangladesh
(Los Angeles, California — August 08, 2024) — On August 5, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted in a coup,...
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Aug 63 min read
New Hampshire Adopts IHRA to Fight Antisemitism
(Concord, New Hampshire - August 06, 2024) - On August 05, 2024, Governor Chris Sununu signed into law SB 508, which codifies...
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Aug 63 min read
A Call for Accountability and Reform
The video in question, “Why doesn’t international law apply to the West?” sourced from the YouTube channel. Michael Gencher | ...
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Aug 65 min read
Focus Groups on Campus Antisemitism Show What a Difference Administrations Can Make
Multiple surveys have reported an alarming increase in hostilities on campus, and this was an opportunity to explore that trend further....
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Aug 63 min read
Victims of antisemitic riot outside Los Angeles synagogue sue radical groups behind ‘shocking’ violence
Protesters allegedly blocked the entrance to the Adas Torah synagogue as violence broke out Peter Aitken | Fox News | July 26, 2024...
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Aug 62 min read
Address ‘alarming’ Jew-hatred, reverse agreements with agitators, 18 groups tell schools
“Institutions cannot trample on the rights of Jewish and Israeli students in an effort to restore order to their campuses,” said Roz...
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Aug 22 min read
StandWithUs Helps Expose Al Jazeera Journalist’s Ties to Hamas
(Los Angeles, California — August 02, 2024) — On July 31, 2024, Al Jazeera reporter Ismail Al Ghoul was killed in an airstrike west of...
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Jul 297 min read
National Review Article: Jewish Groups Bring 19th-CenturyWeapon to Legal Fight againstAntisemitism at Columbia: The KKKAct
By Zach Kessel/June 28, 2024 Since the attack of October 7, Columbia University has been hit with a flurry of lawsuits accusing the...
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Jul 254 min read
As Threat of Hezbollah War Rises, Here’s What You Should Know About Israeli-Lebanese Relations
Matthew Abelson | Algemeiner | July 16, 2024 Photo courtesy of Shutterstock Israel’s relations with Lebanon have historically been...
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Jul 244 min read
Letter from SWU and CAMERA to AFT President Randi Weingarten
July 22, 2024 Randi Weingarten American Federation of Teachers 555 New Jersey Ave. N.W. Washington, DC 20001-2079 Via Email:...
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Jul 235 min read
Los Angeles screening of ‘Screams Before Silence’ captivates local Jewish community
“I am the live testimony standing before you, before the world speaking for [the victims who no longer can,” one ZAKA first responder...
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