Cassie Schwartz
Dana Kamilar
Community Unites as StandWithUs Honors Truth in Journalism and Student Advocacy
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle received the Lion of Truth in Journalism Award; local students Miriam Levari and Harrison Romero honored Julie Paris , SWU Mid-Atlanitc regional director (right) with the Chronicle staff, from left: Jim Busis, Amy Weiss, Toby Tabachnick and David Rullo (Adam Reinherz not pictured) (Photo by Christina Montemurro Photography) The Pittsburgh Jewish […]
BDS Resolution Defeated by University of Connecticut Student Senate
(Mansfield, Connecticut — September 18, 2025) StandWithUs congratulates Jewish students at the University of Connecticut (UConn) for their pivotal leadership in convincing Senators on the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) to reject Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) referendum questions against Israel on its election ballot. The students convinced the Senators that the questions violated bylaws of […]
University of Connecticut Student Senate Votes Down anti-Israel Divestment Referendum
“We dodged protests erupting on campus, urging students to vote a certain way,” Joel Harris, a UConn student senator, told JNS. (Aaron Bandler — JNS) A proposed referendum on whether the University of Connecticut should divest from companies that conduct business with Israel failed in the student senate on Wednesday night. The referendum would have […]
StandWithUs Applauds Passage of AB 715, a Bill to Fight Antisemitism in California Public Schools
(Sacramento, CA — September 13, 2025) — StandWithUs thanks the California state legislature for passing Assembly Bill 715 (AB 715), a bill to fight antisemitism in K-12 public schools. The bill passed the State Senate 33-0 and the Assembly 71-0, in votes taking place on September 12 and in the early hours of September 13. It was authored by Assemblymembers Rick Chavez Zbur […]
Junior Editor & Fact-Checker
Beyond Six: A High School Student’s Call to Combat Holocaust Ignorance
By Daniel M. Zeman As I made my way to PE class, something happened that shook me to my core. Picture this: a 13-year-old classmate standing ahead of me, yelling, “Raise your hand if you want to bring back Hitler to kill all the Jews,” all while laughing as if it were a joke. Yet […]
StandWithUs Calls on UC Berkeley to Investigate and Address Antisemitism by Hatem Bazian
(Los Angeles, CA – September 2, 2025) – StandWithUs calls on UC Berkeley to investigate the lengthy record of antisemitic statements by tenured Professor Hatem Bazian to determine whether they have created a hostile and unsafe campus environment for Jewish students and, if so, to take immediate action to remedy such hostility and prevent its recurrence. Bazian […]
Federal Lawmakers Launch Investigation Into Antisemitism at US Medical Schools
By Dion J. Pierre | The Algemeiner | August 26, 2025 Campus antisemitism at US medical schools is next in line to be examined by the federal government following the announcement on Monday of a major probe to be conducted by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. US lawmakers announced an investigation into three institutions: […]
Texas State University Silent on Status of Professor Who Incited Violent Attack on Jews at Public Library
By Dion J. Pierre | The Algemeiner | August 28, 2025 Texas State University is refusing to disclose whether it still currently employs a far-left professor who was filmed inciting a riotous assault on three pro-Israel individuals who peacefully spectated an anti-Israel presentation that was held in June 2024 at the West Asheville Library in North Carolina. […]
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Alitza Hochhauser
Assistant Campus Regional Manager, Central
StandWithUs Campaign Calls for Urgent Action to Protect Druze and Christian Minorities from Genocidal Violence in Sweida, Syria
(LOS ANGELES, CA — August 25, 2025) — StandWithUs has launched an urgent campaign calling on elected officials to act immediately to protect Druze and Christian minorities from genocidal threats in Sweida, Syria. This crisis has been underreported outside the Middle East and without urgent intervention, the risk of continued genocidal violence remains dire. “This crisis […]
Leaving the Timeline Behind: A New Spin on Israel Education
Deborah Peretz / August 15, 2025 Jewish education has long relied on a linear model of teaching history – a timeline that begins with our foundational narratives and moves sequentially toward the present day. This approach offers clarity and order, helping students contextualize events and discern patterns of cause and effect. Many beautifully crafted resources […]
Druze and Christian Minorities in Syria
Context Starting in July, Sunni Islamist extremists, Bedouin militants, and Syrian government forces committed a series of massacres and atrocities against Druze and Christian religious minorities in Sweida, a city in southwest Syria. According to multiple reports, many hundreds of civilians remain kidnapped or missing and too little aid is reaching the region, despite efforts by Israel and others to open […]
StandWithUs Condemns the Nazi Flags at Texas High-School
(Heath, Texas — August 18, 2025) — In the early hours of August 16, a Dallas suburb became the latest target of antisemitic hate in the State of Texas. Two Nazi flags were found suspended from the side of the Rockwall-Heath High School. The flags have since been removed by the Heath Police Department, which is currently […]
