StandWithUs
“During this very difficult time for the Jewish people, the annual StandWithUs gathering became more important than ever,” said Roz Rothstein, head of the nonprofit.
“They’re gonna learn from each other,” he said, “because it’s a team sport.”
“Our hearts are broken, but our spirits are not,” said Roz Rothstein, of StandWithUs. “Do not underestimate the Jewish people. Do not underestimate the state of Israel.”
Protesters picket an event with a StandWithUs staffer and grandson of Holocaust survivors.
The university said it was “committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment where all feel safe and free of harassment, hostility or marginalization.”
“A professor targeting Jewish and Israeli students for adverse treatment is textbook antisemitic discriminatory conduct.”
“The truth is that Israel bears no resemblance to the oppressive apartheid regime that oppressed my people,” said SWU South Africa Executive Director Cassandra Mayekiso.
“The book is filled with misleading anti-Israel statements and outright lies,” wrote ZOA’s National President Morton Klein and Susan Tuchman, director of the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a first-in-the-nation executive order establishing the definition as the legal standard for determining when unlawful discriminatory conduct is motivated by anti-Semitism.
It highlighted five top issues of concern for Jewish students, as well as addressed faculty members and university administrations.
StandWithUs arranged it, saying Israel has been targeted unfairly by the United Nations as part of a sustained, vindictive agenda.
The FBI’s initial position on the Colleyville hostage crisis “brings up the need for education and information—that every single one of us draws these red lines and has these conversations” surrounding anti-Semitism, says StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein.