Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at UCLA and Santa Monica College hosted two South African students

Jewish Journal Ryan Torok 4/242019 From left: Thando Mlauzi, Isaac Dayan, Mmamalema Molepo, Jessica Khalili, Justin Feldman and Klaas Mokgomole participated in a pro-Israel speaking tour at UCLA and Santa Monica College. Photo courtesy StandWithUs Klaas Mokgomole from the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg and Mmamalema Molepo from the University of Cape Town believed that […]

StandWithUs Congratulates UMD Students for Defeating Discriminatory Divestment Resolution 4/24/19

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ( College Park, Maryland, 4/24/19 ) — StandWithUs congratulates students at the University of Maryland (UMD) for defeating a discriminatory divestment resolution. The UMD Student Government Association (SGA) rejected the legislation with a vote of 9 in favor, 25 against, and 2 abstaining. “We are very proud of the students at UMD […]

Middlebury College professor takes leave of absence after Nazi poison-gas test question

Jewish National Syndicate / JNS.org Jackson Richman April 22, 2019 Middlebury College professor takes leave of absence after Nazi poison-gas test question The question’s preamble stated, “Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) is a poisonous gas, which Nazi Germany used to horrific ends in the gas chambers during The Holocaust.” It then asked to calculate how much of […]

What’s in a name? | Guest opinion Why Israel and Palestine are not interchangeable names.

Mercer Island Reporter Randy Kessler April 18, 2019 An April 12 Mercer Island Reporter column on a visit of Islanders to the Middle East had an unusual headline: “Mercer Islanders make pilgrimage to Palestine.” As Executive Director of StandWithUs Northwest, an organization that educates about Israel and fights anti-semitism, and a 12-year Island resident, I […]

Pro-Israel Organizations Urge UMass to End Departments’ Sponsorship of Anti-Israel Panel

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler April 23, 2019 Eighty pro-Israel organizations wrote an April 23 letter to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst calling on the university to end all departmental sponsorship of an upcoming anti-Israel panel. The May 4 panel at the Fine Arts Center, titled “Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech, & the Battle […]

StandWithUs Southeast High School Intern receives prestigious award

Mazel tov to StandWithUs Southeast High School Intern Tayla Rosenthal as a recipient of The Anne Frank Humanitarian Award. This prestigious award honors students for their outstanding humanitarian efforts in their school and community. We are so proud of all her leadership efforts.Tayla has created the largest TLC chapter in the country and so far […]

University of Maryland Student Government to Hold BDS Vote During Passover

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/18/2019 University of Maryland’s Student Government Association (SGA) will be holding a vote on a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution on April 24, in the middle of Passover. As first reported by Algemeiner, Maryland Hillel capital campaign director Elan Burman informed Hillel community members about the upcoming vote in an […]

BDS Proposal Fails at UC Santa Barbara for Sixth Time

The Algemeiner Shiri Moshe 4/11/2019 Student leaders at the University of California, Santa Barbara rejected a divestment resolution targeting Israel on Thursday, marking the sixth time the measure failed to pass in recent years. In a secret ballot vote of 14-10 and no abstentions, the Associated Students Senate shot down a proposal directing the university […]

UC Santa Barbara, Cornell reject BDS efforts

San Diego Jewish World 4/16/2019 LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs congratulates students at UC Santa Barbara and at Cornell University for defeating discriminatory divestment resolutions on April 11. The Associated Students of UC Santa Barbara (ASUCSB) rejected the legislation with a vote of 10 in favor, 14 against, and 0 abstaining. At Cornell, the […]

UCSB student gov spikes Israel divestment resolution

Campus Reform Fiona Moriarty-McLaughlin 4/17/2019 Members of UC Santa Barbara’s Associated Students Senate shot down a resolution asking the school to divest from certain companies conducting business in Israel. The student government rejected the resolution in a 14-10 secret ballot vote around 5 a.m. Thursday morning following a ten-and-a-half-hour meeting Wednesday night, the Daily Nexus […]

ONE VOTE decided Cornell’s Israeli divestment resolution

Campus Reform Matthew Stein 4/16/2019 Cornell University’s Student Assembly rejected an anti-Israel Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) resolution on Thursday by a vote count of 15-14 with one abstention. The vote count included “two votes allocated to community members that were awarded against the resolution,” reported The Cornell Daily Sun. William A. Jacobson, a Cornell law […]

Palestinian Group at Cornell Tells Israeli Student ‘Quit Complaining’ About Rockets

CBN News Steve Warren 4/16/2019 A pro-Palestinian group at Cornell University told an Israeli student through a Facebook post to “quit complaining” about a rocket attack that blew up her home in Israel on the Gaza border. According to The College Fix, Shir Kidron recounted a 2009 Gaza missile attack in the April 7 Cornell […]

UCLA Prof Dismisses Concerns of Lack of Pro-Israel Balance on ‘1948’ Panel

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler 4/17/2019 James Gelvin, a history professor at UCLA, dismissed concerns of the lack of pro-Israel voices during a panel discussion inside the West Hollywood City Council Chambers on April 16, asking if it would be required for there to be a panel defending Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s actions. Gelvin was on […]

Elan Carr Calls Out BDS: ‘Hatred of the Jewish State Is Hatred of the Jewish People’

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler APR 16, 2019 Elan Carr, the recently appointed State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, criticized the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement during an April 16 press conference for promulgating “hatred of the Jewish people.” Carr was asked by a reporter if he viewed the BDS movement as […]

Divestment Resolution Fails at Cornell

Jewish Journal Aaron Bandler April 12, 2019 A resolution calling for Cornell University to divest from companies that conduct business with Israel failed at the April 11 Student Assembly meeting. The Cornell Daily Sun reports that 14 members of the assembly voted in favor of the resolution and 13 voted against, with one abstention. However, […]

Cornell’s student government rejects BDS resolution

Jewish National Syndicate / jns.org Jackson Richman April 12, 2019 Cornell’s student government rejects BDS resolution “I have been extremely disappointed by the way this resolution has been handled by everyone involved,” said junior Savanna Lim. “You can’t expect a student government to solve a geopolitical crisis.” Cornell University’s student government rejected a resolution on […]

Cornell Students Vote Down Divestment Resolution Targeting Israel After Acrimonious Campus Debate

The Algemeiner Shiri Moshe April 12, 2019 The Student Assembly at Cornell University in Ithaca voted on Thursday against adopting a divestment resolution targeting companies over their ties to Israel, following a campus debate that multiple students decried as acrimonious. While a majority of SA members voted via secret ballot to adopt the measure — […]

Pro-Palestinian Cornell group tells Israeli student ‘quit complaining’ about rocket attacks

The College Fix April 13, 2019 A Cornell University pro-Palestinian organization told an Israeli student via a Facebook post to “quit complaining” about having to deal with rocket attacks from the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip. In an April 7 Cornell Daily Sun op-ed, Shir Kidron recounted a 2009 Gaza missile attack which struck her home: “A […]