StandWithUs Announces New Criminal Justice Division within the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department
(LOS ANGELES, CA) — On September 18, 2024 , StandWithUs announced a new criminal justice division within its StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department, a division of StandWithUs, which supports Israel and fights antisemitism through legal action. After a decade of being a leader in the legal fight against antisemitism in the US by handling thousands […]
SUNY Purchase President Steps Down Amid Backlash Over Handling of Anti-Israel Protests, Campus Antisemitism
By Dion J Pierre | The Algemeiner | September 12, 2024 State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase president Milagros Peña will leave office at the end of this academic year, ending a four-year tenure that was derailed by pro-Hamas demonstrations on the campus. According to The Journal News , Peña announced her “retirement” in […]
SUNY Purchase Leaders Violated Students’ Rights and Rewarded Jew-Hating Rhetoric; They Must Be Held Accountable
By Esti Heller | The Algemeiner | September 11, 2024 When I first met Milagros “Milly” Peña — the president of SUNY (State University of New York) Purchase College — it was in the wake of two incidents involving Jewish safety on campus, both prior to October 7. In the first incident, a vandalized Israeli […]
‘The irony of becoming what you once hated’: Milwaukee mural intertwines Star of David with swastika
There’s outrage from group working to combat antisemitism By Kristin Pierce | WISN | September 12, 2024 Screenshot The outside of a building on the corner of Holton and Locust streets used to display a mural of Breonna Taylor. Taylor was a 26-year-old Black woman shot and killed by Louisville Metro police in 2020. The […]
Education Is Power
By Julianne Katz | Jewish Link | August 29, 2024 StandWithUs students in Los Angeles StandWithUs is an international, nonpartisan education organization that supports Israel and fights antisemitism. It was co-founded by Roz Rothstein (CEO), Jerry Rothstein (COO) and Esther Renzer (president) in 2001 during the Second Intifada. Since then, the organization has spread to […]
StandWithUs Salutes the City of Miami Beach for Anti-BDS Ordinance
Miami Beach, Florida – September 11, 2024 StandWithUs congratulates Commissioner David Suarez and the City of Miami Beach Council for unanimously passing an ordinance that will bar the city from contracting with parties engaged in boycotts against Israel. The ordinance follows a resolution , which—passed by the council in May 2024 —mandates that recipients of […]
UMich student government criticized by pro-Israel org for withholding student funds in divestment demand, calls it a ‘gross abuse of power’
By Michael Duke | Campus Reform | September 5, 2024 A pro-Israel organization criticized the University of Michigan’s student government for withholding funds from student organizations until the school divests from Israel. Alifa Chowdhury, the student body president, froze funding for student groups over the summer after vetoing the proposed budget of $800,000 until the […]
Suspending arms export licenses to Israel marks a profoundly misguided turning point
3 September 2024 The decision to suspend arms export licenses to Israel by the UK government marks a profoundly misguided turning point in history. Eighty-four years ago, Churchill urgently appealed for U.S. arms to fight the Nazi Axis, insisting that Britain should not be left to fight on its own. Today, as Israel stands […]
Pittsburgh Organizers Stopped an Effort to Boycott Israel; But It Was Far Too Close
By Julie Paris | The Algemeiner | August 22, 2024 The city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is known for many things: bridges, steel, sports teams, and sadly, the Tree of Life Synagogue building shooting, where the worst massacre of Jews in US history took place on October 27, 2018. After the Tree of Life attack, we […]
StandWithUs Files Amicus Brief at the U.S. Supreme Court Advocating for Employees’ First Amendment Rights Not To Be Represented by Antisemitic Union
City University of New York (“CUNY”) professors learned that CUNY’s union issued an antisemitic resolution after October 7. Though six of the professors are no longer union members, under New York law, they are forced to still accept the union’s representation. The professors’ lawsuit seeks to vindicate their First Amendment rights so that they will not be […]
Press Release: StandWithUs Files Title VI Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against SUNY Purchase for Egregious Antisemitic Targeting by Student Government, Enabled by Administration
Los Angeles, CA – The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department, a division of StandWithUs, along with a current student and a recent graduate, filed a federal Title VI complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on August 20, 2024. The complaint alleges that Purchase College, State University of New York (“SUNY Purchase” […]
Title VI Complaint Filed Against SUNY Purchase by StandWithUs
StandWithUs Files Title VI Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against SUNY Purchase for Egregious Antisemitic Targeting by Student Government Leadership, Enabled by Administration. Read press release HERE.
Pittsburgh Jewish Community Successfully Defeats Illegal and Discriminatory BDS Referendum Item
Community Relations Council Director Laura Cherner (left) stand with attorneys Efrem Grail, Carolyn McGee and Ronald Hicks, StandWithUs Mid-Atlantic Regional Director Julie Paris and Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh President and CEO Jeff Finkelstein (Photo provided by Julie Paris) (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) — On August 19, StandWithUs, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, and a coalition of […]
StandWithUs Helps Expose Al Jazeera Journalist’s Ties to Hamas
(Los Angeles, California — August 02, 2024) — On July 31, 2024, Al Jazeera reporter Ismail Al Ghoul was killed in an airstrike west of Gaza City. Many on social media and beyond were quick to glorify him and portray him as an “impartial journalist.” StandWithUs helped correct the record by exposing a video that […]
Pittsburgh Jewish Community Fights Back Against Unlawful BDS Referendum Item
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) — On August 13, the Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh and a coalition of four local Jewish clergy filed a legal challenge to a petition filed last week seeking to place a question on the upcoming ballot to amend the Pittsburgh City Home Rule Charter. The ballot question asks whether the city should participate in […]
A Dallas School District Is Being Investigated for Antisemitism; Here’s How Other Schools Can Avoid That Fate
By: Jenna Statfeld Harris | Algemeiner | Aug 5, 2024 On July 15, 2024, the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) informed my organization that it opened a civil rights investigation into the Dallas Independent School District (“DISD”) in response to our complaint that a student was subjected to years of “severe, […]
StandWithUs Condemns Targeted Violence Against Hindu Community in Bangladesh
(Los Angeles, California — August 08, 2024) — On August 5, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted in a coup, triggering some of the worst political violence the country has witnessed in decades. StandWithUs writes to express its support for its Hindu friends and condemn the fundamentalist mobs who have unjustly scapegoated and targeted Bangladesh’s Hindu community, […]
Response to CST’s Report: We must address the rise in antisemitism through education
09 August 2024 StandWithUs UK expresses deep concern regarding the alarming rise in antisemitism, as highlighted in the recent CST Antisemitism Report. With proper law enforcement, education stands as the most potent tool for transforming this situation, especially within schools and universities , where the biggest rise in antisemitism has been recorded. Regrettably, some still […]
