Student collaboration award at Tufts goes to SJP chapter

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate Jackson Richman 4/24/2020 Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Tufts University on Wednesday won a student organization award. The Student Organization Awards ceremony did not take place on campus due to the coronavirus pandemic and instead occurred online. “We are so excited to win the Collaboration […]

Tufts Leaders Say They ‘Strongly Disapprove’ of Award Given to SJP

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/24/2020 Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Senior leaders at Tufts University, including the university’s president, issued a statement on April 24 denouncing an award giving to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) earlier in the week. On April 22, Tufts SJP tweeted it had just won the university’s Collaboration Award because of […]

The Lappin Foundation encouraged StandWithUs

The Jewish Advocate Stephanie Margolis April 29, 2020 You never know who will influence your life and how exactly their touch will impact your future until you have the chance to reflect back. Robert Lappin’s passing hit me in just this way. The Lappin Foundation, through which so many teens have found their way to […]

ConnecTeen: an Innovative Project Enables Israeli Teens to Engage With Their North American Peers

(Jerusalem, April 23rd, 2020) —  As millions of teens worldwide are at home due to Coronavirus pandemic, a group of Israeli and North American teens decided to create an international initiative that connects teenagers abroad through a first-of-its-kind project. The participants of “Tevel” – the StandWithUs Israel international public diplomacy and leadership program for high school students – and the […]

בני הנוער הישראלים שדווקא בצל הקורונה יזמו פרויקט שמחבר בין נוער בישראל ובחו”ל

ירושלים, 23 באפריל 2020 בני הנוער הישראלים שדווקא בצל הקורונה יזמו פרויקט שמחבר בין נוער בישראל ובחו”ל: הכירו את ConnecTeen בזמן שמיליוני בני נוער ברחבי העולם מתבודדים בבתיהם בצל הקורונה, קבוצת בני נוער ישראלים בכיתות י’ החליטו דווקא עכשיו להוביל יוזמה בין-לאומית – ולהתחבר לבני נוער בחו”ל באמצעות פרויקט ראשון מסוגו. חניכי תוכנית ‘תבל’  – […]

Saidoff Legal Department and Center for Combating Antisemitism letter to New York Attorney General

March 25, 2020 VIA EMAIL : Letitia.james@ag.ny.gov The Honorable Letitia James Attorney General of New York Office of the Attorney General The Capitol Albany, New York 12224-0341 Dear Attorney General James, We write on behalf of the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department and the StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism, divisions of StandWithUs (SWU), an international, non-profit […]

The Fallacious Argument About Free Speech and Israel

The Algemeiner JANUARY 29, 2020 by Carly F. Gammill and Jonathan Bell UCLA sign on the University of California, Los Angeles, campus. (Photo: Michael Gordon / Shutterstock) In a recent  Los Angeles Times  op-ed , UCLA Professor David Myers and Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller claim that StandWithUs’ Title VI complaint against UCLA — in conjunction with President […]

Let us not forget the battle against antisemitism and anti-Zionism

Alan Newman Coronavirus, the silent menace so easily transmitted and disruptive to our lives, awaits an effective vaccine or treatment. As we track the grim statistics, we must rely on public health mitigation practices like social distancing, shelter-in-place, and hand washing. New drugs are being tested, and a flood of ventilators are rushed to help […]

Saidoff Legal Department and Center for Combating Antisemitism letter to Santa Monica College

April 22, 2020 VIA EMAIL: ( jeffery_kathryn@smc.edu ; tuitasi_michael@smc.edu ) Kathryn E. Jeffery, Ph.D. Superintendent and President Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Boulevard Santa Monica, California 90405 Michael Tuitasi Vice President of Student Affairs Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Boulevard Santa Monica, California 90405 Dear Dr. Jeffrey and Mr. Tuitasi, We write on behalf of […]

NYU Condemns Ex-Student’s ‘Shameful’ and ‘Callous’ Tweet Mocking First Israeli Coronavirus Death

Algemeiner 3/26/2020 Wikimedia Commons New York University (NYU) took an unusual step this week, condemning a former student for a mocking tweet about the first Israeli coronavirus fatality. Upon learning of the death of Aryeh Even, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who lived in Jerusalem, last Friday, Leen Dweik — ex-president of NYU’s Students for Justice […]

UCI Student Senate Repeals BDS Resolution

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/14/2020 Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The UC Irvine (UCI) Student Senate on March 31 repealed a 2012 resolution calling for the university to divest from companies that conduct business with Israel. Associated Students of UC Irvine (ASUCI) Senator Marshall H. Roe introduced a resolution to repeal R48-15 — the divestment resolution […]

Newly elected VP of Rutgers-Newark student government foments anti-Semitism online

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate Jackson Richman 4-17-2020 A Palestinian student who was elected this month as vice president of the student government at the Newark campus of Rutgers University has a history of posting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic content on social media. Carolyn Assaf, a pre-med student, once posted a since-deleted 15-second cartoon video on Instagram of […]

Dozens urge UK public to ‘stay home’ during pandemic in StandWithUs campaign

JN/TOI 4/2/2020 Dozens of people have recorded video messages urging the UK public to stay at home during the pandemic as part of a social media campaign organised by the pro-Israel educational organisation StandWithUs. University students on StandWithUs’s Israel leadership programme, the Emerson Fellowship, took part, as did some sixth formers and members of StandWithUs. […]

BDS Co-Founder Says Anti-Israel Boycotts Don’t Apply to Potential Coronavirus Vaccine

Washington Free Beacon David Rutz APRIL 6, 2020 Credit: Reuters The cofounder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which urges a complete boycott of Israeli-made products, encouraged the movement’s supporters to seek out one Israel-made product, if it materializes: a vaccine to inoculate them against the coronavirus. The pandemic has created a […]

StandWithUs Outraged by Pakistan Court’s Acquittal of Daniel Pearl’s Murderers

April 3, 2020 (LOS ANGELES, April 3, 2020) — – StandWithUs is outraged over the unjust and atrocious ruling by the Sindh High Court that commuted the sentence of the main person responsible for the horrific murder of Wall Street Journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 and acquitted three accomplices. These four individuals will reportedly remain […]

70-plus faculty members thank Columbia university president for battling BDS vote

JNS/Jewish News Syndicate Jackson Richman 3/23/2020 Columbia University. Credit: Pixabay. More than 70 Columbia faculty members have signed a letter thanking university president Lee Bollinger for expressing opposition ahead of an undergraduate student referendum next month calling on the university to divest from companies doing business in Israel. The 74 faculty members, as of Monday, signed […]

SWU Calls on New York AG to Investigate Antisemitism

March 25, 2020. As we recently noted , we are seeing numerous instances of people wrongly blaming minorities – primarily Jews and Chinese people – for COVID-19. StandWithUs is deeply troubled by one of the latest such reported instances, in which an Orthodox Jewish man in New York appears to have been turned away at […]

LINK program bringing dynamic Israel education to South Jersey schools

Jewish Community Voice REA BOCHNER March 11, 2020 The proliferation of anti-Israel messages in the media and on college campuses is not news. Nor is the rising opposition to Israel here and abroad. What is surprising, however, is the number of Jewish youth with anti-Israel sentiments. “I’ve met bright young Jewish kids, even in our […]