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StandWithUs in the News

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Articles about StandWithUs

• International Israel Office
• AISH article on Roz Rothstein
• Jewish Week on SWU fighting challenges on the Internet
• Roz Rothstein selected as one of Forward Magazine's "Forward 50" for 2007
• StandWithUs Stands Against Campus Zionism
• Idealist.org lists StandWithUs
• Fighting In Israel's Corner
• New York' Jewish Press article on "What Does It Mean To Support Israel?"
• Joel Mowbray's op-ed in the Washington Times, "Boxer's Stand" on January 11, 2007

SWU Emerson Fellowship 2007-2008

• Israel advocacy as an afterschool job
• Herald-Times (Bloomington, IN) (Inna Kolesnikova, Indiana University)
• Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• NY Sun (David Avraham, NYU; Alisa Bodner, Queens College; Ariel Pollock, Columbia University)
• Gainesville Sun (Erika Kane, University of Florida)
• Jewish Herald Voice (Houston, TX) (Katherine Gomer, Rice University)
• The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA) (David Stiebel, MIT)
• Ruben Conitzer, Florida International University; Meira Kreuter, Florida Atlantic University

Protest Against Ahmadinejad in New York — September 25, 2007:

• "New York Conservative" (ZOA Website)
• "Canadian students protest Ahmadinejad NY visit" (The Canadian Jewish News)
• "Thousands Tell Iranian President He's Not Welcome In New York" (The Jewish Press)
• New York Times
• YNet News
• Internationl Herald Tribune
• Guysen International News (in French)
• Reality Bites Back

SWU counter-rally held June 2007 in Washington D.C.:

• The Washington Counter Rally: The reality and contrast (Israpundit)
• Voices of protest (Washington Jewish Week)
• 'Israel dissolution rally' planned for Washington (ynetnews.com)
• Groups Split Over Countering D.C. Rally (Jewish Exponent)

SWU Counters anti-Israel ads in Washing DC metro rail system with its own ads - May 13, 2007:

• Middle East conflict spawns advertising battle in Washington subways (International Herald Tribune)
• Mideast Conflict Spawns D.C. Ad Battle (CBS News)
• Middle East conflict spawns ad battle in Washington subways (The Examiner, San Francisco, CA)
• Pro-Israel group launches Washington poster campaign (The Canadian Jewish News)
• Pro-Israel group fights back with ads: StandWithUs counters anti-Israel poster campaign on Washington DC subway with its own posters (ynetnews.com)
• Pro-Israel group counters anti-occupation group (JTA)
• http://jewishsightseeing.com/
• Countering the Palestinian Lobby (Zionism & Israel News)
• War over ad war Groups differ on best retort to Metro blitz (Washington Jewish Week)

UC Santa Cruz in the News:

• Gil Stein: UCSC's academic integrity on sabbatical (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
• Santa Cruz Sentinel
• NBC Affiliate in St. Luis Obispo, Santa Maria and Santa Barbara
• Salinas Californian

Also in the news:

• "Israel advocacy at DRS" (The Jewish Star, May 2, 2008)
• "Christian Leads Zionist Advocacy Group" (The Detroit Jewish News Online, September 27, 2007)
• Israel on Campus
• SWU Condems Ahmadenijad Anti-Israel rhetoric (Anglicans in Israel)
• SWU Delivers 8,000-signature petition against Norman Finklestein Tenure to DePaul University (JTA)
• SWU East Coast Campus Coordinator Dani Klein and Nonie Darwish, who spoke at the University of Illinois April 24, 2007 (Herald & Review)
• LA Jewish Journal article on "Israel 101"
• LA Jewish Journal report on SWU's Library Project
• LA' Jewish Journal's senior writer Marc Ballon's article, "An Unexpected Love."
• LA Jewish Journal report on tension at UCIrvine
• Pomona College newspaper report on Arab-Israeli Journalist Khaled Abu Toameh's lecture, March, 2007
• January, 2007 Hadassah Magazine article on Muslim community in Detroit including SWU Michigan chapter
• August 12, 2006 counter protest by SanFranciscoVoiceFor Israel against ANSWER by SWU San Francisco office
• Report on MPAC/PJA joint program, "NewGround"

Articles By Roz Rothstein, SWU National Director:

• "Amanpour's Poor Judgment," by Roz Rothstein and Roberta Seid, Ph.D. (San Diego Jewish Journal, October 2007)
• LA Jewish Journal - (Professor Norman) "Finklestein Poisons Jewish Minds."
• Insrael Insider - (Professor Norman) "Finklestein Poisons Jewish Minds."
• Israel Insider - "Prejudices revived in US by Palestinian Christian group" Report on SABEEL
• FrontPage Magazine - "Zionism, Not Racism"
• co-authored with Roberta Seid, Ph.d - "Dangerous Hypocrisy" World Reaction to Danish Cartoons"
• MPAC's Maher Hathout's Nomination for LA Human Relations Commmission's Humanitarian Award: Article 1, Article 2 , Article 3

Letters-to-the-Editor:

• "Counters Misinformation" on Combatants for Peace"
• C4P report and SWU response
• MPAC's "Maher Hathout" nomination for the LA Human Relations Commission award
• "Interfaith Dialogue" - Divestment from Israel campaigns
• "One Sided Dreams" - Rachel Corrie
• MPAC's Maher Hathout's Nomination for LA Human Relations Commmission's Humanitarian Award

SWU Programs:

• 2008 Screening of "Golda's Balcony: The Film," starring Valerie Harper:
  • Pajamas Media
  • LASplash.com
• SWU hosts Kenneth Marcus at UCIrvine April 27, 2007
• SWU's annual "Festival of Lights" honoring Israeli Consul General to Los Angeles Ehud Danoch
• Kenneth Stein - "Former Carter Fellow Addresses Sinai Temple"
• "Dershowitz Debates Israel Palestinian Issue" with Husein Ibish
• "Jewish liaisons for Bush and Clinton outline work in 'the real West Wing'"
• Melanie Phillips "Journalist: West Is Losing War of Ideas"
• "Celebrating Jewnity the Jewlicious Way"

SWU Mission to Israel:

• "A 10-Step Guide to Helping Israel" mentioning SWU mission to Israel despite war with Hezbollah in Lebanon - summer, 2006
• Article on missions to Israel, including SWU.