Event Recap: The Fight for Western Values with Elica Le Bon
StandWithUs Canada hosted a powerful event, welcoming attorney, artist and activist Elica Le Bon to Toronto! The event fell on the same evening that we learned the tragic news about Oded Lifshitz, and Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, a night where our community needed to be together more than ever. Our Executive Director Jesse Primerano opened […]
Asya Savelyeva
BDS on Canadian campuses: What has been achieved in the months since 2024’s summer of unrest? | The Canadian Jewish News
Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | February 10, 2025 In the summer of 2024, a cluster of tents sprang up on the University of Windsor’s central campus, transforming a patch of grass near the main quad into what organizers called ‘The Liberation Zone’. Colourful banners and hand-painted signs bearing slogans like ‘Free Palestine’ […]
Eylon Levy 2024 “Voice of the People” Canada Tour
in Fall 2024, StandWithUs Canada had the privilege of touring Former Israeli Government Spokesman Eylon Levy in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal to share his insights on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the dramatic flareup of antisemitism in the Diaspora, and how to combat it by using our voices to speak up. With profound conversations led by excellent moderators, audience members were captivated […]
McGill cancels talk with Hamas insider turned Israel advocate, citing fears of violence | The Canadian Jewish News
Campus event bookings have also been halted for the remainder of 2024. Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | November 26, 2024 McGill University has cancelled an on-campus event planned by Jewish students—and temporarily halted bookings for all extracurricular activities—following threats of violence along with a death threat, as outlined in a message from […]
Event Recap: The Herzl Cup 2024
Our inaugural Herzl Cup hockey tournament was a slap-tastic success! We’re so proud of the incredible young hockey players grades 7-12, who raised over $77,000 to help StandWithUs Canada support students across the country! They had a blast taking to the ice for some fun competition, alongside our special guest Jesse Pollock! Thanks for coming […]
Michelle Dor
Islamist mob chanting “Allahu Akbar! outside of Eylon Levy Canada Tour
As our final Voice of the People event with Eylon Levy took place on November 5 in Montreal, a crowd of anti-Israel protestors gathered outside of the shul in an attempt to intimidate our community. Our staff and guests were called baby killers and terrorists, and a number of our students were menacingly called out by name […]
Ex-Israeli government official says antisemitism in Canada ‘out of control’ | Toronto Sun
Canada’s insistence on funding UNRWA emboldens anti-Israel activists, former government spokesperson says Bryan Passifiume | Toronto Sun | November 4, 2024 OTTAWA — As he attempted to speak with students at the University of Calgary last week, masked anti-Israel activists pounded on the doors shouting “Allahu akbar!” That was the scene that greeted former Israeli […]
Protesters trapped students in a Calgary lecture hall during a talk by Israel’s former spokesperson Eylon Levy | The Canadian Jewish News
Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | November 1, 2024 Demonstrators trapped Jewish students in a classroom at the University of Calgary (UofC) on Oct. 31, during a talk with Israel’s former spokesperson Eylon Levy. Students had to evacuate the building through a back door in the middle of the lecture, and Levy was […]
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 […]
Event Recap: We Will Dance Again with Montana Tucker
Our “We Will Dance Again” event with the wonderful Montana Tucker was even more inspiring, energizing, and powerful than we had ever imagined. 75 young dancers from around the Greater Toronto Area came together to raise over $105,000 in support of StandWithUs Canada, reaching over 800 donors! We are beyond proud of their fundraising efforts, […]
University of Windsor must rescind agreement with encampment protestors
WINDSOR, ON, (July 11, 2024) – Allied Voices for Israel (AVI) and StandWithUs Canada are deeply troubled by the recent agreement between the University of Windsor and the Windsor Liberation Zone Team. We call on the university to rescind its agreement, as it will undoubtedly cause further harm to Jewish students and their allies on […]
‘Nine Months in Hamas Hell’: Hundreds rally in Toronto demanding release of Israeli hostages | National Post
‘Usually, when people say nine months, the connotation is very happy. It’s a symbol of life, of being born. I am just shocked that we even reached this mark,’ says Canadian citizen Yasmine Magal, whose cousin Omer Neutra was abducted on October 7 Ari David Blaff | National Post | July 7, 2024 Hundreds of […]
Jewish cemetery in Montreal desecrated with stone Nazi swastikas | Jerusalem Post
Hampstead mayor Jeremy Levi condemned the Kehal Israel cemetery memorial park’s vandalism, in which the stones traditionally placed on graves out of respect and to mark a visit were misappropriated. Michael Starr | Jerusalem Post | July 3, 2024 A Montreal Jewish cemetery was desecrated over the weekend when pebbles on gravestones were rearranged in […]
Injunction Against Anti-Israel Encampment Granted to the University of Toronto
TORONTO, ON (July 2, 2024) – StandWithUs Canada is grateful and relieved that the Ontario Superior of Court of Justice has granted the University of Toronto an injunction against the anti-Israel encampment that has been at King’s College Circle since May 2nd. We were proud to serve as an intervenor in this case, along with other Jewish organizations who […]
University of Toronto is granted an injunction to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment that has been on campus for two months | The Canadian Jewish News
Alex Rose & Lila Sarick | July 2, 2024 | The Canadian Jewish News The University of Toronto has received an injunction to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment on its property. The 98-page decision from Justice Markus Koehnen of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice said that members of the encampment must take down the tents […]
