BACKGROUND: Operation Shield and Arrow

On May 9, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched Operation Shield and Arrow with a series of airstrikes targeting three commanders in Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a terrorist organization based in Gaza. The Operation resulted from escalating tensions between Israel and Palestinian terror groups in April and May 2023. The conflict was sparked when […]

StandWithUs South Africa Counters Hateful “Israel Apartheid Week”

By: Cassandra Mayekiso | The Times of Israel | May 3, 2023 Noa Raman, StandWithUs Israel Director of Partnerships converses with students during “Israel Apartheid Week” 2023. (left to right) — Cassandra Mayekiso, Noa Raman, Noah Shufutinsky (aka Westside Gravy) and Chad Silver, South Africa Emerson Fellow from the University of Cape Town during “Israel […]

StandWithUs UK raises over £600K in support of their students and communities

More than 1,000 donors pledged support for Israel educational charity one week after its London offices were broken into. By: Michelle Rosenberg | Jewish News | May 3, 2023 Israel education charity StandWithUs UK has raised more than £600k in a 72-hour fundraising campaign. The support from more than a thousand donors will enable the […]

StandWithUs Statement: Any company profiting from this theft from Jewish victims of the Holocaust..

Any company profiting from the theft from Jewish victims of the Holocaust, is participating in one of the greatest crimes against humanity. We agree with the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) and hope that Christie’s will be the link to stop the chain of wrongdoings immediately. And if they don’t, the action of profiting from selling […]

UN rapporteur, who appeared on Hezbollah-affiliated channel, must resign – opinion

Albanese’s antisemitic statements do not deviate far from the antisemitic groups she associates with. Jerusalem Post Jordan Cope April 23, 2023 This month, anti-Israel terrorists murdered a mother and her two daughters in one attack, as well as an Italian tourist in a separate attack in Tel Aviv. Instead of condemning these murders, Francesca Albanese, […]

‘Intimidation’: Vandals Break Into StandWithUs UK Office

The Algemeiner By Dion J. Pierre April 27, 2023 2:29 PM An unknown person or group broke into the London office of StandWithUs (SWU UK), an educational nonprofit that promotes education about Israel, the group confirmed on Wednesday. The perpetrators came in through the ceiling on the morning of Israel Independence Day and left a […]

Break in at StandWithUs London office – ‘threatening’ message left at scene

EXCLUSIVE: A burning Yahrzeit memorial candle was left alongside one of the Israel educational charity’s campaign t-shirts Jewish News By Michelle Rosenberg April 26, 2023, 1:14 pm The London headquarters of a pro-Israel educational charity was broken into on Tuesday evening, with a lit yahrzeit memorial candle placed next to one of the organisation’s t-shirts. […]

EL AL Relaunches Ambassadors Program

Jewish Link By Susan R. Eisenstein April 20, 2023 Israel’s national airline, El Al was born in November of 1948 along with the State of Israel. Thus, El Al has always been intertwined with the existence and destiny of Israel and served, then as now, as an expression of national pride. Its fleet proudly displays […]

StandWithUs Condemns Bias and Bigotry in Courses Approved by Santa Ana Unified School District

Santa Ana, CA April 26, 2023 StandWithUs strongly condemns Santa Ana Unified School District’s (SAUSD) approval of an Ethnic Studies: World Geography course which promotes bias and bigotry against Israel and the Jewish people. The course was approved by the SAUSD Board of Education on April 25th, 2023. The SAUSD board also approved an Ethnic […]

US Government Investigating George Washington University for Alleged Antisemitic Discrimination

By: Dion J. Pierre | The Algemeiner | April 5, 2023 The US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has opened an investigation into George Washington University to determine whether administrators allowed a professor to discriminate against Jewish students. George Washington University professor Lara Sheehi. Photo: Twitter. In January, StandWithUs, an educational nonprofit, […]

Dept. of Education to Investigate Antisemitism Complaint Against GWU

By: Aaron Bandler | Jewish Journal | April 5, 2023 The complaint, filed in January, alleged that the university failed to take proper action against Assistant Professor of Psychology Lara Sheehi, who is accused in the complaint of targeting and invalidating the identities of Jewish Israeli students in her class and then retaliating against them […]

Civil Rights Office Opens Investigation Into George Washington University Over Alleged Antisemitism

By: Kate Anderson | Daily Caller | April 4, 2023 The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is launching an investigation into George Washington University (GWU) due to allegations of antisemitism from one of the school’s professors, according to StandWithUs (SWU), an antisemitism watchdog organization. GWU professor Lara Sheehi was the subject of […]

GWU Says an Investigation Cleared It of Anti-Semitism. Why Won’t It Release the Report?

By: Alana Goodman | The Washington Free Beacon | March 30, 2023 George Washington University professor Lara Sheehi / Twitter Professor Lara Sheehi tweeted: ‘FUCK ZIONISM, ZIONISTS, AND SETTLER COLONIALISM.’ That’s OK by GWU. George Washington University on Monday trumpeted the results of an investigation that allegedly cleared the university and Professor Lara Sheehi of […]

Holocaust Remembrance to highlight women resisters

Main Street Daily News By Ronnie Lovler April 10, 2023 Alachua County’s Jewish community and others will gather Sunday to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day — or Yom HaShoah as it is known in Hebrew — to recall horrors that killed at least six million European Jews and millions more during World War II. Dr. Nili […]

Education about Israel is the ‘Road to Peace’

It is incumbent upon all of us to actively engage in finding solutions to antisemitism. Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle By Julie Paris April 20, 2023 As Israel approaches its 75th anniversary, there is so much to celebrate. Zionism, the belief that Jewish people have the right to self-determination in our ancestral homeland, has flourished from a […]

Social-media users post Israeli flags for ‘Dees Day’

A grieving husband and father urges people everywhere to share photos of themselves with Israeli flags to honor his wife and daughters. Jewish News Syndicate April 10, 2023 Rabbi Leo Dee urged social-media users to post flags of Israel in memory of his wife and two daughters, who were shot and killed in a terror […]

Yom HaShoah Marked with Poignant Ceremony

At a candle-lighting ceremony for Yom HaShoah, six candles were lit for the six million murdered Jews during the Holocaust; one candle was lit for the non-Jews who perished; and one was ignited for those whom Roz Rothstein, CEO of StandWithUs, described as “victims of Palestinian terrorism.” Beverly Hills Courier By Ryan Torok April 20, […]

Statement on Passover Terrorist Attack on British-Israeli Family in Israel

StandWithUs UK is horrified at the terrorist murder of two British-Israeli sisters, Rina Dee, 16, and Maia Dee, 20. They were in a car driven by their mother Lucy Dee who is fighting for her life, a result of terrible injuries caused to her during the shooting attack by Palestinian terrorists. The terrorists who murdered […]