SAUJS call for ‘heal over hate’ snubbed

South African Jewish Report March 24th 2022 By Dani Sack Credit: StandWithUs A lone, chained student from the University of Pretoria (Tuks) stood with her mouth taped shut and fake blood smeared on her face in front of a peaceful South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) mural promoting dialogue over hate. Israel haters defaced […]

StandWithUs Urges UN Secretary General to Condemn UNHRC’s Discrimination Against Israel

(New York, NY – April 1, 2022) — StandWithUs has sent a letter urging Secretary General of the UN António Guterres to condemn the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) latest destructive campaign against Israel, in the form of an open-ended Commission of Inquiry (COI) targeting the Jewish state. The COI is the latest example of […]

Letter to United Nations Human Rights Council re: Systemic Antisemitism

March 31, 2022 Secretary-General Guterres United Nations Headquarters New York, N.Y. 10017 USA antonio. guterres @un.org & sgcentral@un.org Re: The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Systemic Antisemitism, including the Establishment of its Commission of Inquiry on Israel His Excellency Mr. António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres: As an international non-profit organization committed to education and combating […]

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 Campaign Urges Congressional Review Of Any Iran Nuclear Deal

(Washington, DC — March 31st, 2022) — StandWithUs has launched a campaign, encouraging people to email the Administration and Congress, supporting the right of Congress to review all nuclear deals with Iran’s regime. “The American people have a right to know all the details of the proposed nuclear deal before it is finalized,” said Roz […]

Jewish students say antisemitism isn’t as rare as you might think

WABE Martha Dalton March 28th, 2022 Ahron Levin, with Stand With Us, directs a session for students at Temple Kol Emeth in Marietta. The organization teaches students and parents how to identify and address antisemitism. (Kaitlin Kolarik /For WABE) Antisemitic graffiti at two Cobb County high schools made national headlines last fall. The school district […]

Jewish students convey concern over anti-Israel measures passed at two Montreal universities

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate FAYGIE HOLT March 23, 2022 Jewish students and community groups are decrying the passage this week of anti-Israel measures at two Montreal schools of higher education, Concordia University and McGill University. “We strongly condemn discriminatory votes targeting Israel at Concordia and McGill universities, where students are being asked to vote on anti-Semitic […]

Majority of US Senators Call for End to Anti-Israel UNHRC Commission of Inquiry

(Los Angeles, CA — March 28, 2022) — On March 28, 2022, Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rob Portman (R-OH) submitted a jointly-written, bipartisan letter to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calling on the Biden administration to address anti-Israel bias and discrimination in the UN Human Rights Council and UN at large. The letter, […]

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 […]

New bold billboard campaign in Toronto aims to address rise of antisemitism

Mar 8, 2022 Alan speaks with Rebecca Katzman, senior director of campus affairs with StandWithUs Canada, about a bold new campaign that aims to fight antisemitism in Toronto.

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 […]

The Role of Private Donations in the Academic Debate Over Israel

By Roz Rothstein March 3, 2022 2:20 am University of Washington in Seattle. Photo: Steve Ginn/Wikimedia Commons. There is an ongoing controversy in some corners of academia about a donor rescinding a major gift to the University of Washington (UW). My organization, StandWithUs, has been mentioned — and in some cases misrepresented — as part […]

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 […]