It’s time to correct Wikipedia’s dangerous anti-Israel bias – opinion
A clear double standard exists, whereby for anti-Israel terrorists, Wikipedia frequently buries the devils in the details and places the burden on readers to find them. By Jordan Cope | The Jerusalem Post | October 10, 2024 Wikipedia prides itself as a “free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality” available to “every single person on […]
StandWithUs expands dramatically since 2001
By Chris Leppek | Intermountain Jewish News | October 2, 2024 StandWithUs founders and directors Roz and Jerry Rothstein, with Miri Kornfeld (middle), SWU Colorado director, in Denver, Sept. 23, 2024. (Courtesy) StandWithUs was born in the midst of strife and bloodshed in Israel. Terrorists were on the offensive. More than a thousand Israelis, civilians […]
StandWithUs Sends Letter to Stony Brook University Seeking Administrative Action Regarding Antisemitism
StandWithUs sent a letter to Stony Brook University asking its leadership to address a discriminatory anti-Israel lecture in conjunction with a possible violation of the First Amendment by a professor. Read the letter below. To navigate, simply use the arrows to flip through pages, and utilize the toolbar for additional options such as fullscreen mode […]
StandWithUs Israel Team hosts exhibition to honor October 7 victims
By Jerusalem Post Staff | Jerusalem Post | September 26, 2024 “When we look into their eyes, we see their stories”: New exhibition honors October 7 victims Graffiti artist Benzi Brofman honors those killed and kidnapped in the Hamas massacre with a moving multimedia exhibition blending art and storytelling. Faces of October 7, a profoundly […]
Former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus in town for StandWithUs reception
”We are dealing with terrorists that believe that Jews do not have a right to exist in this land that we call Israel.” By David Rullo | Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle | September 16, 2024 Jonathan Conricus addresses the more than 300 people at StandWithUs’ inaugural Pittsburgh Community Reception. (Photo by VanDyke Photography) Jonathan Conricus is […]
Pro-Hamas Group Planning Oct. 7 Celebration in New York City
By Dion J. Pierre | The Algemeiner | October 2, 2024 (Screenshot) Within Our Lifetime (WOL), one of the most outspoken anti-Israel organizations in the US, is planning to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel with a mass demonstration in New York City, The Algemeiner […]
‘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) MILWAUKEE — 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 […]
“When we look into their eyes, we see their stories”: New exhibition honors October 7 victims
Graffiti artist Benzi Brofman honors those killed and kidnapped in the Hamas massacre with a moving multimedia exhibition blending art and storytelling. By Jerusalem Post Staff | Jerusalem Post | September 26, 2024 Left to right: Eitan Neishlos (Dubai-based philanthropist and partner of exhibition), Benzi Brofman (Israeli Graffiti Artist), Michael Dickson (Executive Director of StandWithUs […]
StandWithUs Sends Letter to Gaming Convention Decrying Capitulation to Radical Activists
The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department wrote a second time to the organizers of Big Bad Con, a gaming convention scheduled for October 2024 in California, to express disappointment over their capitulation to pressure from radical activists to declare the convention an “anti-Zionist space.” StandWithUs reminded the organizers that exclusionary policies targeting and excluding Zionist Jews […]
Jewish Students at Brown University Celebrate Victory as the Brown Corporation Rejects Divestment Proposal
(Providence, Rhode Island – October 10, 2024) — StandWithUs congratulates the Jewish students at Brown University, including two current StandWithUs Emerson Fellows and one Emerson alum, for their pivotal leadership in opposing the Brown Divest Coalition’s (BDC) anti-Israel BDS proposal. The Brown Corporation’s October 9th decision to reject this harmful proposal is a […]
Jewish students in Toronto challenge anti-Israel hostilities while marking Oct. 7 anniversary | The Canadian Jewish News
Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | October 7, 2024 Hope Schrier was initially scared to go to her downtown Toronto campus on Oct. 7, 2024. But she ultimately decided this would be a day to show her strength—if just by showing up. A fourth-year creative industries student at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Schrier […]
Oct. 7 anniversary is ‘an opportunity’ for education and togetherness, say Jewish students across Canada | The Canadian Jewish News
Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | October 6, 2024 As the one-year mark of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel approaches, Jewish student organizations are preparing to commemorate victims and hostages while sparking conversations on university campuses. Concerns about security and counter-protests are also in the mix. At least one school is not […]
Colorado Jewish Community Statement on Today’s Attack and Upcoming Anti-Israel Events
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the October 1, 2024 massive bombardment of 180 ballistic missiles fired at Israel by Iran, as well as terror attacks in Tel Aviv and in Jaffa that killed anywhere from six-to-eight people and wounded several others. We stand in solidarity with the Israeli people during this moment […]
Standing United: Thoughts from Jewish Interns at StandWithUs
To Whom It May Concern, On September 1, 2024, we woke to find ourselves grappling with grief and loss once again. With pain mirroring the heartbreak of October 7th, we learned that the lives of six hostages were brutally taken by Hamas, just days before they were found by IDF soldiers . Carmel Gat, Eden […]
Brandeis Center/ADL/StandWithUs Expand Helpline on Antisemitism in K-12 Schools to Massachusetts and New York
(Boston, MA, September 30, 2024) –. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), and StandWithUs, along with a coalition of leading law firms, on September 30 announced the launch of a helpline in K-12 schools to provide pro bono legal assistance to parents whose children are experiencing antisemitism […]
StandWithUs and 36 Organizations Urge Covington & Burling Law Firm to Withdraw Its Sponsorship of Conference Due to Host’s Celebration of Navi Pillay
(New York, NY) — On September 24, 2024 a coalition of 37 leadership organizations in the American Jewish and legal communities (listed below), called on the law firm of Covington & Burling in a letter to withdraw its sponsorship of the American Branch of the International Law Association’s (ABILA’s) “International Law Weekend” (October 24-26, 2024). This […]
StandWithUs Requests from UC Chancellors Proof of Compliance with UC Policy
On September 23, 2024, StandWithUs sent a letter to all ten UC Chancellors, requesting proof that they indeed have fulfilled their obligation to review and update existing campus policies regarding campus protests, encampments, and concealing identity. UC President Drake issued this directive to all UC campuses over the summer. Since sending StandWithUs’ letter, UC Davis […]
StandWithUs Sends Letter to Board Game Convention Offering Advice in the Face of Antisemitic Boycotters
The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department wrote to the organizers of Big Bad Con, a board game convention scheduled for October 2024 in California, (1) commending the organizers’ decision to remove exclusionary, antisemitic language from the description of a panel at their convention and (2) cautioning them against capitulating to the demands of boycotters trying to […]
