StandWithUs NW’s Response to Erroneous Information About Nakba Day in “The Stranger”

Note : This was submitted to “The Stranger” in response to this article . They declined to publish it. Every year, Jews around the world observe two of the darkest days in our collective memory: Yom HaShoah – for the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and Yom HaZikaron – for the ever-growing list […]

StandWithUs Canada Strongly Condemns Violent Antisemitic Vandalism Near York University

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON Tuesday, June 14, 2022 StandWithUs Canada is appalled by the reprehensible antisemitic vandalism that stated “shoot a Jew in the head” discovered near York University last week. The message promoted is not only hateful, but it is dangerous and threatening. We thank York University’s administration for swiftly condemning this despicable […]

Funeral procession outside UN headquarters in New York emphasizes human rights

Jewish News Syndicate June 16, 2022 StandWithUs arranged and filmed a processional outside U.N. headquarters in New York City as a funeral for human rights, saying Israel been targeted unfairly by the United Nations. Credit: Courtesy. People in black robes and hoods, wearing skeleton masks, carried coffins down First Avenue in New York City. The […]

General Mills Says Selling Israeli Stake Had Nothing to Do With BDS

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler June 7, 2022 General Mills announced in a statement on June 1 that their recent decision to sell their stake from a joint operation in East Jerusalem had nothing to do with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Jewish Insider and Jewish News Syndicate reported that BDS activists had been […]

Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Held As StandWithUs Opens Expanded Center in Jerusalem on May 22, 2022

President Herzog: “StandWithUs has been a pioneer in bringing cutting edge communications educational resources and grassroots activism tools to the entire pro-Israel community… I have no doubt that through this new Education Center in Jerusalem you will continue to deeply impact people from all across the globe. Thank you for all that you are doing […]

StandWithUs Canada Emerson Fellow Lindsay Cogan Named First Place Honouree for Roberta Seid Award

Congratulations, Lindsay! The Roberta Seid Award for Courage and Leadership, in memory of Dr. Roberta Seid, is given to one outstanding StandWithUs Emerson Fellow each year who has demonstrated exemplary courage, leadership, and commitment to Israel activism on campus and beyond. Dr. Seid was our first Director of Research and Education at StandWithUs; this remarkable […]

StandWithUs Commends Arizona for Landmark Antisemitism Legislation

( PHOENIX, AZ — April 19, 2022) — StandWithUs commends the state of Arizona for overwhelmingly passing (by a 49-4 vote) important legislation to help confront antisemitic crimes and discrimination. By passing HB 2675 on April 19, 2022 , Arizona now joins the ranks of Florida, Iowa, South Carolina, and Tennessee in codifying the International […]

StandWithUs Expresses Concern About Apparent Double Standard at University of Chicago

March 31, 2022 Madhav V. Rajan, Ph.D. Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Accounting University of Chicago Booth School of Business VIA EMAIL: ( madhav.rajan@chicagobooth.edu ) Dear Dean Rajan, We write on behalf of StandWithUs, an international, non-profit education organization supporting Israel and combating antisemitism. We are concerned about possible administrative lack of support […]

STANDWITHUS COMMENDS COLORADO FOR TAKING ACTION AGAINST UNILEVER’S BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL

(Los Angeles, CA) — On March 18, 2022, Colorado’s Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) voted unanimously to put Unilever on notice regarding its boycott of Israel. In doing so, PERA declared that it would begin divesting its 42 million dollars of investments in Unilever if the latter refused to reverse its boycott within 180 days. […]

Writing ‘Israel/Palestine’ and calling Zionism ‘colonial’ came at a price for U. of Wash.

Israel National News Dr. Edward C. Halperin | Mar 08, 2022 A donor revoked her philanthropic gift to the University of Washington because a professor libelled Israel: A teaching moment for Higher Education. Opinion Picture: Shutterstock In 2016, Rebecca Benaroya, a Seattle philanthropist, gave $5 million to the University of Washington to create the Jack […]

Bright pink billboards with ‘bold slogans’ fighting rising antisemitism in Toronto

CBC News Talia Ricci | Mar 08, 2022 A campaign against antisemitism is featuring bright pink billboards on some of Toronto’s main roadways in a bid to grab people’s attention and spark change. Two non-profit organizations, StandWithUs Canada and a U.S.-based group called JewBelong, recently launched the effort to raise awareness about the increasing number […]

‘StandWithUs comes to Australia’

‘We will complement, not duplicate, existing work’ The Australian Jewish News By AJN STAFF March 9, 2022 Australian students at a StandWithUs workshop in Israel. Photo: Courtesy StandWithUs Australia INTERNATIONAL advocacy organisation StandWithUs will make all its resources available to the Australian community when it commences local operations, its Israel executive director Michael Dickson says. […]

The fight over biased ethnic studies courses is spreading to public schools nationwide

E Jewish Philanthropy By Ida R. Eblinger Kelley March 9, 2022 In Short In the big picture, our classrooms are increasingly caught in the culture wars between the right and the left. The impact of this on the Jewish community varies from place to place, but in far too many cases we have seen Jewish […]

StandWithUs Australia Set to Launch in Spring 2022

Sydney 10 March, 2022 Photos courtesy StandWithUs Australia International Israel education organisation, StandWithUs – whose mission is to inspire and educate people of all ages and backgrounds about Israel, challenge misinformation and fight antisemitism – has announced it will be opening national operations in Australia. StandWithUs is already well-known locally in Australia. The organisation has […]

Donor yanks Israel Studies endowment at U of Washington over professor’s Israel criticism

By Andrew Lapin February 24, 2022 Cherry blossoms on the University of Washington Quad in Seattle, March 14, 2010. (Brewbooks via Creative Commons) UPDATE: The University of Washington says the school remains committed to its Israel Studies program. Please see the latest here. The original story follows. ( JTA ) — The University of Washington […]

Students Make the Difference in Helping StandWithUs SE Exceed Its Fundraising Goal

StandWithUs’ Ahron Levin, Senior Southeast High School Coordinator and Brandon Orlinsky, Academic Logistics Coordinator with students at the “Command Center” at the Polo Club of Boca Raton (Boca Raton, FL — March, 2022) — StandWithUs Southeast (SWU SE) is thrilled to announce that its “Start The Wave: Be the Ripple That Makes The Change” online […]

JewBelong and StandWithUs launch campaign against antisemitism in Toronto

Jerusalem Post FEBRUARY 17, 2022 “We’re just 75 years since the gas chambers. So, no, a billboard calling out bigotry against Jews isn’t an overreaction” and “Does your church need armed guards? ‘Cause our synagogue does” are among the messages Toronto residents will see hanging from busy freeways and streets from February 28 to March […]

StandWithUs Canada, Hillel UofT & UT Students Supporting Israel (SSI) Condemn Discriminatory Motion

(Toronto, ON – February 16, 2022) – Today the University of Toronto Student Union (UTSU) held a Special General Meeting and voted in support of a motion calling on “the UTSU (to) wholly divest funds & further on forbid investment to firms complicit in the occupation of Palestinian Territory” (sic). More than 240 Jewish students […]