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 […]
JewBelong and StandWithUs Canada Launch Antisemitism Ad Campaign in Toronto Beginning February 28
International partnership aims to address rising rate of antisemitic crimes in Canada – up 18.3% from 2019 (February 14, 2022) – JewBelong , a nonprofit resource dedicated to fighting antisemitism in partnership with StandWithUs Canada , a nonprofit that combats antisemitism and educates about Israel, are launching a billboard campaign in Toronto to raise awareness […]
Jewish watchdog urges University of Chicago to denounce SJP’s boycott of ‘Zionist classes’
JNS/Jewish News Service February 9, 2022 StandWithUs has called on the University of Chicago to condemn Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for telling its supporters to boycott “sh**ty Zionist classes.” In an email sent last week to university president Robert J. Zimmer and dean of students Michele Rasmussen, StandWithUs highlighted an Instagram post that […]
StandWithUs Calls on UChicago to Condemn SJP Post Calling for Boycotting “Sh*tty Zionist Classes”
SJP at UChicago posted on Instagram on January 26 a statement with a headline in all capital letters that read “DON’T TAKE SH*TTY ZIONIST CLASSES,” specifically citing three classes: “Multiculturalism in Israel,” “Narrating Israel and Palestine Through Literature and Film,” and “Gender Relations in Israel. Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler February 7, 2022 Photo: EQRoy / […]
Pro-Israel group urges UChicago to condemn group calling for boycott of ‘sh–ty Zionist classes
Fox News By Adam Sabes February 5th, 2022 Photo: EQRoy / Shutterstock.com A pro-Israel organization is urging the University of Chicago to condemn a pro-Palestinian student group who is calling on students to boycott “sh–ty Zionist classes.” StandWithUs, an education organization that combats antisemitism and supports Israel, sent a letter to the University of Chicago […]
StandWithUs Urges University of Chicago Administration to Condemn Discriminatory SJP Campaign
February 4, 2022 Robert J. Zimmer, Ph.D. Chancellor and President Emeritus The University of Chicago Michele Rasmussen, Ph.D. Dean of Students The University of Chicago VIA EMAIL: chancellor @uchicago.edu ; mrasmussen@uchicago.edu RE: Urging Your Administration to Condemn Students for Justice in Palestine’s Campaign Targeting Faculty and Students for Discrimination Dear Chancellor Zimmer and Dean Rasmussen, […]
Illinois Divests from Unilever over Ben & Jerry’s Israel Boycott
Jewish Press David Israel December 23, 2021 The state of Illinois on Wednesday divested its pension funds of investments in Unilever in response to the conglomerate’s subsidiary ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s announcement last July of banning the distribution of its products in the “occupied Palestinian territory.” The unanimous vote by the 7-member Illinois Investment […]
SWU Applauds Illinois Investment Policy Board for Divesting State Pension Funds from Unilever
(Chicago, IL — December 22nd, 2021) — StandWithUs applauds the Illinois Investment Policy Board (IIPB), which voted unanimously (7-0-0) in favor of divesting the state’s pension funds from Unilever, in accordance with the Illinois anti-BDS law (SB1761). The law aims to ensure Illinois taxpayers do not invest in companies that engage in discrimination, through, “actions […]
