Inclusion: The Benefits of Treating Fellow Jews as Am Echad (One Nation)

We don’t need to erase our differences to stand together. But we do need to make space for one another — with intention, respect, and courage. Alexandra Fishman Ph.D. | The Jewish Journal | April 16, 2025 Photo: Shutterstock As an Orthodox Jew with a broad group of friends, I often find myself navigating a […]

California Public School Teacher Played Students Turkish Propaganda Video Likening Israel’s War on Hamas to the Holocaust: Lawsuit

Santa Clara Unified School District has ‘allowed an egregiously hostile environment to fester’ for Jewish students, suit says Alana Goodman | The Washington Free Beacon | April 4, 2025 A teacher at a public high school in California showed 10th-grade students a Turkish propaganda video that equated Israel’s war on Hamas to the Holocaust and […]

StandWithUs Condemns PVUSD contract with “Liberated” Ethnic Studies Consultant

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Watsonville, CA — April 17, 2025) — StandWithUs condemns the Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) board’s decision to approve  a $90,000  contract with Community Responsive Education (CRE) – a consultant that promotes “liberated” ethnic studies  in K-12 schools. We are also deeply concerned that the district used a California Department of […]

The New School’s Parsons School of Design Sued for Enabling Antisemitic Harassment and Retaliation on Campus

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2025 New York City —  The Dhillon Law Group has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Brandon White, an emerging artist and recent graduate of The New School’s Parsons School of Design. The lawsuit alleges that the university failed to protect White from physical assault, antisemitic slurs, […]

Court Denies Antisemitic Harassment Order, Affirming Free Speech in Online Advocacy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 SEATTLE, WA – On April 10, 2025, a Washington State King County Superior court denied a civil protection order sought against Ari Hoffman, a local media personality and community advocate, ruling that his actions were constitutionally protected free speech. The case stemmed from a series of events in late […]

Antisemitic Social Media Posts Could Result in Denial of Immigration Benefits

By: Perla Shaheen  Foreign students affiliated with universities linked to antisemitic activity can now be denied immigration benefits, according to a Department of Homeland Security policy change. This could directly impact students at UCSD. “It’s not only aggressive, it’s violent,” said Doris Bittar with the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee. The DHS made a significant shift in immigration […]

StandWithUs partners with Dhillon Law Group in Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Against The New School for Enabling Antisemitic Harassment and Retaliating Against One of its Victims

On April 8, 2025, the Dhillon Law Group, in partnership with StandWithUs Saidoff Legal, filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking redress for New York’s The New School’s wanton mishandling of antisemitic harassment on its campus. The lawsuit alleges that in December 2023, anti-Israel agitators blocked and physically shoved a student out of a […]

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 […]

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 […]