StandWithUs Legal Testified Before the U.S. Senate HELP Committee on Campus Antisemitism 

Carly Gammill, StandWithUs Director of Legal Policy, was invited by the United States Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) Committee to testify in its hearing, titled “Antisemitic Disruptions on Campus: Ensuring Safe Learning Environments for All Students,” on March 27, 2025.    U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA), chair of the HELP Committee, is […]

web-staging.standwithus.commends Kansas Governor For Signing into Law Bill Against Antisemitism

(Topeka, Kansas – April, 2025)  – StandWithUs applauds Kansas Governor Laura Kelly for signing into law a bill which codifies the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism. The Kansas state legislature passed Senate Bill 44 (SB 44) and presented it to Governor Kelly for signature on April 4.  A growing number of […]

StandWithUs Legal Calls on International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners to Take Action After Denial of License Renewal Due to Israeli Citizenship

An Israeli citizen was targeted for a temporary denial of her license renewal because of her Israeli citizenship. StandWithUs Saidoff Legal sent a letter to the Institute for Credentialing Excellence, the umbrella organization overseeing the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. StandWithUs’ letter notifies the Institute of antisemitic discrimination and urges the Institute to implement appropriate safeguards […]

McGill University classes dramatically disrupted by strike urging divestment from Israel | The Canadian Jewish News

Student society organizers ask administrators to respect the ‘will of the student body’. Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | April 6, 2025 A three-day anti-Israel strike at McGill University has led to campus unrest, cancelled classes, and growing fears among some students, particularly within the Jewish community. The strike, held from April 2 […]

StandWithUs and the Bay Area Jewish Coalition File Title VI Complaint Against CA’s Santa Clara Unified School District for Disparate Treatment and Harassment of Jewish Students 

  Federal civil rights complaint alleges that district engaged in disparate treatment of Jewish elementary, middle and high school students, and ignored severe and pervasive harassment of Jewish students across multiple schools     Santa Clara, CA, April 3, 2025 – StandWithUs Saidoff Legal, a division of StandWithUs, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to educating […]

StandWithUs and SAUJS Empower South African Students During Israel Apartheid Week

March 2025 – Johannesburg & Cape Town, South Africa  – As Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) spreads anti-Israel misinformation and hostility on campuses, StandWithUs and the South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) ensured Jewish and pro-Israel students were equipped to lead the conversation, counter false narratives, and stand proud in their identity. Empowering Students with […]

How are Massachusetts schools failing Jewish students through bias? – opinion

As antisemitic lessons increase, who’s running K-12 education? By Deborah G. Schuss | Jerusalem Post | March 24, 2025 Photo: Shutterstock As Massachusetts students remain stubbornly behind their pre-pandemic levels in math and reading scores according to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Massachusetts Teachers Association’s recent focus of attention is instructive. The […]

Trump’s DOE investigates Seattle-area school district for ‘enabling rampant antisemitism’

The Lake Washington School District, which is located near Seattle, has been accused of fostering a hostile environment for its Jewish students since the 2023 Hamas terror attacks. Katie Daviscourt and Ari Hoffman | The Post Millennial | March 19, 2025 The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has launched an investigation into […]

Federal government investigates Lake Washington School District for allegedly allowing anti-semitism

Washington’s second-largest district faces a federal investigation for allegedly allowing a hostile learning environment for Jewish students. Maddie White | King 5 | March 20, 2025 SEATTLE — The second-largest school district in the state, Lake Washington School District, is under federal investigation over claims it is not preventing anti-Semitism.  Title VI of the Civil […]

Montana Tucker, Dan Ahdoot Highlight StandWithUs Conference

Montana Tucker, Dan Ahdoot, Zach Sage Fox, John Ondrasik and Judea Pearl were among those who spoke at the StandWithUs International Conference at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport from Feb. 27-March 2. Aaron Bandler | Jewish Journal  | March 12, 2025 Montana Tucker (Photo courtesy SWU) Speaking to the 650 conference attendees on Feb. 28, Tucker, […]

Berkeley enabling violent Jew-hatred, per federal civil rights complaint

The school “utterly failed to take the steps reasonably necessary to protect Jewish students on their campus,” Yael Lerman, of StandWithUs, told JNS. JNS Staff | JNS | March 18, 2025 Photo: Shutterstock The University of California, Berkeley and its police force failed to protect Jews, including declining to identify and apprehend suspects, who allegedly […]

Enough Is Enough: Lies, Defamation, and Intimidation – What These Open Letters Really Represent

Sydney, Australia – 31/03/2025 StandWithUs Australia unequivocally condemns the defamatory, misleading, and ideologically driven open letters sent to Monash University, the University of Sydney, and UTS management in response to our upcoming campus events. Let’s call these letters what they are: a coordinated smear campaign designed to intimidate universities, silence survivors of terror, and push […]

El Cajon Unanimously Adopts the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

(El Cajon, California – March 26, 2025)  — In a resounding and unanimous 5-0 vote on Tuesday , the City of El Cajon officially adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism—marking a significant step forward in the fight against rising antisemitism in the United States.   StandWithUs wholeheartedly thanks Mayor Bill […]

El Cajon Council Unanimously Adopts Antisemitism Resolution

  Photo: Rabbi Scott Meltzer said his synagogue in San Diego has twice been vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.  By Karen Pearlman   March 26, 2025 (El Cajon) — The El Cajon City Council took a step toward condemning hate by unanimously voting for a resolution to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Working Definition of Antisemitism. […]

A Victory in El Cajon – San Diego Jewish World

By: Dan Pritsker | San Diego Jewish World EL CAJON, California — The El Cajon City Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday, March 25, that defines antisemitism using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition. At first glance, this may seem like a matter of semantics — but it’s far more significant. When we […]

StandWithUs Title VI Complaint Against Lake Washington School District Prompts Investigation by Department of Education

(Seattle, WA — March 19, 2025) – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened for investigation a federal Title VI complaint filed by StandWithUs Saidoff Legal against the Lake Washington School District (LWSD), which the complaint alleges has ignored and enabled rampant antisemitism. LWSD is located in King County, Washington, […]

StandWithUs Launches “SWUBOT”: An innovative, free StandWithUs AI Assistant to help provide quick and accurate answers to questions relating to Israel and antisemitism

[Los Angeles, CA — March 18, 2025]   – StandWithUs, the international non-partisan education organization dedicated to supporting Israel and combating antisemitism, is proud to announce the launch of  SWU BOT (Beta), an innovative AI-powered assistant designed to educate, inform, and empower individuals around the world. This StandWithUs “bot” will be a useful resource for young […]

Non-Jewish Iranian-American activist Elica Le Bon feels ‘responsibility’ to defend Israel | Jewish News Syndicate

The lawyer, who is based in Los Angeles, told JNS about the Iranian regime, which funds Hamas, jailing her mother and executing her mother’s cousin. Dave Gordon | Jewish News Syndicate | March 19, 2025 ( Mar. 19, 2025 / JNS ) Elica Le Bon has lost friends and associates and seen family members’ lives put […]