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On November 14, Robin Dubner, Michael Harris, and 8 other SWU activists disrupted a local Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) meeting in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]]. They heckled the speakers and prevented the meeting from taking place. One activist pepper-sprayed two JVP members but said that she was "physically attacked". JVP members said the pepper-spraying was unprovoked. The SWU activists said that the action was in retaliation to JVP members who had heckled Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the week before.<ref name="jw2010">{{cite web | title=Pro-Israel activists disrupt Jewish Voice for Peace meeting – J. | website=J. | date=November 19, 2010 | url=https://www.jweekly.com/2010/11/19/pro-israel-activists-disrupt-jewish-voice-for-peace-meeting/ | access-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Kampeas2010">{{cite web | last=Kampeas | first=Ron | title=Fight erupts between right-wing and left-wing activists in San Francisco | website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency | date=November 17, 2010 | url=https://www.jta.org/2010/11/17/united-states/fight-erupts-between-right-wing-and-left-wing-activists-in-san-francisco | access-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref> |
On November 14, Robin Dubner, Michael Harris, and 8 other SWU activists disrupted a local Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) meeting in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]]. They heckled the speakers and prevented the meeting from taking place. One activist pepper-sprayed two JVP members but said that she was "physically attacked". JVP members said the pepper-spraying was unprovoked. The SWU activists said that the action was in retaliation to JVP members who had heckled Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the week before.<ref name="jw2010">{{cite web | title=Pro-Israel activists disrupt Jewish Voice for Peace meeting – J. | website=J. | date=November 19, 2010 | url=https://www.jweekly.com/2010/11/19/pro-israel-activists-disrupt-jewish-voice-for-peace-meeting/ | access-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Kampeas2010">{{cite web | last=Kampeas | first=Ron | title=Fight erupts between right-wing and left-wing activists in San Francisco | website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency | date=November 17, 2010 | url=https://www.jta.org/2010/11/17/united-states/fight-erupts-between-right-wing-and-left-wing-activists-in-san-francisco | access-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 16:19, 3 October 2021
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Formation | 2001 |
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Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
International Director | Roz Rothstein |
Revenue (2018) | $14,216,002[1] |
Expenses (2018) | $13,133,678[1] |
Staff (2018) | 108[1] |
Website | standwithus |
StandWithUs (SWU, also known as the Israel Emergency Alliance[2][3]) is an international right-wing[4][5], pro-Israel advocacy organization headquartered in the United States. SWU was founded in Los Angeles by the family therapist Roz Rothstein and her husband Jeremy in 2001.[6] As of 2016, it had 18 offices across the US and branches in Israel, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada.[7]
The group's stated motivation is stopping disinformation and bigotry against Israel and Jews. The founder claims the organization is non-partisan and takes no policy positions.[8][9] The organization focuses on education and is active on American, Canadian, British, and Brazilian campuses.[10] According to The Intercept, SWU "trains students in Israel advocacy, organizes opposition to BDS resolutions, and sponsors pro-Israel events."[11] SWU has organized numerous protest and counter protests.[clarification needed][12][13][14][excessive citations]
The organization closely coordinates with the Israeli government, with Danny Ayalon regarding it as a key US asset for the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[6] The organization has been criticized both for toeing the line of right wing government policies and its insistence that Jews agree with all official policies of the Israeli government.
History
StandWithUs was founded in 2001 by Roz Rothstein, a family therapist in Los Angeles whose parents were Holocaust survivors. According to her, the inspiration for StandWithUs came during the Second Intifada; she thought that Israel didn't get the backing it deserved so she and her husband set up a group with the mission to educate others about Israel.[15]
Due to her leadership of SWU, Rothstein has twice been named one of the 50 most influential Jews in America by The Forward, and the Jerusalem Post named her one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world in 2016.[16]
Organization
Rothstein, who founded SWU in 2001, remains its Executive Director.[16] In 2015, its Board of Directors included Naty Saidoff and Adam Milstein.[17]
SWU has a team of 80 lawyers who provide pro-bono legal services to students and faculty confronting anti-Semitism or "anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism."[18] Roberta P. Seid has served as their education-research director.[19]
Views
For SWU, in Rothstein's view, supporters of Israel should support whatever government is elected in Israel: she denies that Zionists who are publicly critical of the state of Israel for its treatment of Palestinians are supportive of that country.[6] According to her, SWU does not advocate specific policy positions and its goal is merely to "to counter the vicious anti-Israel, anti-Semitic propaganda campaign" by educating the public about Israel.[20]
While SWU is often categorized as right-wing, Rothstein denies that the organization would be either right or left. In an interview with Haaretz she claimed that "[w]e [SWU] don't take a position, we inform."
SWU is opposed to J Street, a self-declared "dovish" pro-Israel lobby;[21] In a debate with its President Jeremy Ben-Ami Rothstein accused him of thinking that he knows "better than the Israelis" on how to achieve peace with the Palestinians. She also complained that J Street primarily pressures and criticizes Israel and not the Palestinians. Ben-Ami faulted her for taking a black-and-white approach to the conflict and concluded that there was little common ground between them.[22] Rothstein is also opposed to Breaking the Silence, an organization of former Israeli soldiers opposed to the occupation of Palestinian lands.[18]
SWU actively opposes the BDS movement.[23] SWU is a proponent of anti-BDS laws,[24] and does not believe such laws impinge on the First Amendment-protected freedom of speech.[25]These laws are intended to discourage boycotts of Israel by requiring state contractors to promise that they aren't boycotting Israel.[26]
Pro-Israel advocacy training
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SWU offers two one-year programs to train students in Israel advocacy. According to Haaretz journalist Judy Maltz, no organization can compare with SWU for turning up 'the heat on the Israel-Palestinian debate at universities,' and its tactics in doing so are 'controversial.[27] It distributes pamphlets and “fact sheets” on Israel, sets up pro-Israeli lectures, and conducts nation-wide tours for Israeli army veterans, while opposing Jewish communities who organize speaking tours of Israeli soldiers who speak out against the occupation.[6]
SWU established and funds its own network of “fellows”, 'foot soldiers' trained to use cameras, videos and robots[28][29] to film events that are considered anti-Israeli at institutions of higher learning, and whose role is said to be one of acting as SWU's 'eyes and ears' on campuses. Often, according to Maltz, the presence of SWU activists 'planted' at anti-Israeli demonstrators, whether designedly or not, have provoked clashes that, in her view, serve SWU'S interests.[27] In training sessions, 'true/false' 'facts' are discussed. For example, the proposition 'Israeli settlements in the West Bank are legal' is deemed to be 'true', though Israel is the only country to assert this, against international law. Likewise the Palestinian exodus in 1948 was not related to the establishment of Israel, but to the invasion by Arab armies, a position contested by Israeli historians.[6]
The Emerson Fellowship program, created in 2007, to train college student leaders, known as "Emerson Fellows," to "act as campus emissaries of the Jewish state [Israel]." As of 2020, the program is offered to North American, British, and Brazilian students.[10][30] Upon completion of the program, students are awarded a $1,000 stipend,[31] and the chance to continue working for SWU.[32] The number of students enrolled in the program has grown from 38 in 2007 and 2008 to 107 in 2020.[33][10][34]
The other program, the StandWithUs High School Internship created in 2012, is directed at North American high school students in 11th and 12th grade and had 125 students enrolled in 2020.[10]
Shagririm
Shagririm (meaning "ambassadors") is an educational program directed at young adult Israeli-Americans in southern California. The intent of the program is to connect such individuals to generate pro-Israeli initiatives. As of 2012, the program included 54 individuals from southern Californian universities. In contrast to Emerson Fellows, Shagririm is only open to Israeli-Americans.[35]
The program is sponsored by and run through the Milstein Family Foundation's Israel Leadership Council, later rebranded as the Israeli-American Council.[35]
StandWithUs TV
In 2020, StandWithUs launched a new platform called "StandWithUs TV". With the global Covid-19 pandemic impacting in-person activities, SWU decided to move more of their focus into the digital realm. Roz Rothstein described the new platform as producing content to "...inform and inspire people of all ages."
The first shows they're producing include:
- Standing with Israel
- Combatting Antisemitism
- Jewish Refugees in the Middle East
- Walk Through Israel.
Guests have included British Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks and Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev. [36][37]
Creative Community for Peace
According to Mondoweiss, in 2011, SWU formed the Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), an effort to counter the BDS movement's calls for celebrities to boycott Israel. Mondoweiess report that David Renzer, a founding member of the group, says that CCFP operates independently, though its detractors[who?] dispute that and allege that tax filings show that CCFP is a fictitious business name for SWU.[38][unreliable source?] CCFP, just like SWU, does not believe the Israeli settlements are an obstacle to peace nor that the West Bank is occupied.[citation needed] The CCFP disputes claim that Israel engages in apartheid and 18,000 people signed their petition calling on artist to play in Israel.[39]
Campaigns and activities
Four Roman Catholic orders of nuns and the pro-Palestinian group Jewish Voice for Peace planned in 2005 to introduce a resolution at a Caterpillar shareholder meeting. The resolution asked for an investigation into whether Israel's use of the company's bulldozer to destroy Palestinian homes conformed with the company's code of business conduct. In response, SWU urged its members to buy Caterpillar stock and to write letters of support to the company. Representatives of SWU also planned to attend the shareholder meeting and speak out against the resolution. SWU and other Jewish organizations stated that Israel was being unfairly singled out.[40]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad protest (2007)
In September 2007, SWU sponsored a protest against Columbia University in New York who had invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak as part of their World Leaders Forum. SWU Campus Director Dani Klein said that inviting Ahmadinejad went "above and beyond the issues of free speech" and that giving him a platform was "honoring him." University President Lee Bollinger defended the decision to invite Ahmadinejad as giving the students a chance to hear an adversary's views.[12]
Transit poster campaign (2007)
In May 2007, the pro-Palestinian U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation placed 20 poster ads in the Washington, D.C. subway system showing a tank with its turret pointing at a child with a school bag. Text on the poster read: "Imagine if this were your child's path to school. Palestinians don't have to imagine." SWU in response launched their own ad campaign with posters showing Palestinian children with military gear. "Teaching children to hate will never lead to peace," one ad read.[13]
Campus Post (2008)
In collaboration with the Jerusalem Post, StandWithUs began publishing a monthly newspaper, Campus Post, in 2008, to be distributed on university campuses. The short-lived paper included articles by Jerusalem Post writers on the topics of Israeli news, society, and culture, while students and others in North America contributed articles about pro-Israel activism.[33]
Durban II protests (2009)
SWU organized protests against the Durban II conference in Geneva, Switzerland, in April 2009, which it claimed were anti-Israel. A small group rallied in New York and SWU sent 15 delegates to the conference itself. Three French students donned clown costumes and heckled Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his speech. According to Rothstein, the clown image were supposed to illustrate the absurdity of having countries that violate human rights at the event.[14][41]
J Street (2009)
SWU campaigned against the inaugural conference of J Street in October 2009. SWU claimed that many of J Street's founders and advisers have "opposed Israel" or have ties with Arab governments that they regard as "consistently hostile to Israel".[42] The campaign consisted of emails, phone calls, and faxes to members of Congress denouncing J Street as "Jewish Stalinists," terrorist sympathizers, and "the surrender lobby." J Street's President, Jeremy Ben-Ami, hit back, claiming SWU engaged in "thuggish smear tactics."[43]
The campaign was not perceived to be effective in discouraging policymakers from attending, given the conference's greater-than-expected turnout. The attendees included many congressmen as well as National Security Advisor General James Jones.[44]
Disrupting Jewish Voice for Peace Meeting (2010)
On November 14, Robin Dubner, Michael Harris, and 8 other SWU activists disrupted a local Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) meeting in Berkeley. They heckled the speakers and prevented the meeting from taking place. One activist pepper-sprayed two JVP members but said that she was "physically attacked". JVP members said the pepper-spraying was unprovoked. The SWU activists said that the action was in retaliation to JVP members who had heckled Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the week before.[45][46]
Olympia Food Co-op lawsuit (2011–2018)
In 2011, SWU helped organize the Olympia Food Co-op lawsuit. In 2010, the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op had decided to institute a boycott of Israeli goods. Five co-op members, aided by SWU, sued, alleging that the board had acted beyond their scope of their authority and breached their fiduciary duties.[47] StandWithUs took credit for filing the case, stating that it was a byproduct of the partnership between StandWithUs and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[48] According to Mondoweiss and Ali Abunimah, SWU denied running the case on behalf of the plaintiffs.[49][50]
The court ruled in 2012 that the lawsuit was an illegal Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP). A decision that was upheld by the appeals court.[51] However, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the state's anti-SLAPP law was unconstitutional which meant that the case could be reopened. But at that point, the five co-op members had abandoned the case and the litigation was ended in 2018.[48]
UC Merced Professor Anti-Semitism Allegations (2020)
SWU along with the Center for Combatting Anisemitism sent a letter to UC Merced asking it to take actions regarding tweets they labeled as anti-Semitic. One tweet had an image of the "Zionist Brain", in another tweet he wrote "the Zionists and IsraHell interest have embedded themselves in every component of the American system, media, banking, policy."
SWU expressed support for his constitutional right to free speech, but expressed concerns that he'd publicly expressed hatred toward some of the people he was teaching. [52]
University of North Carolina Course (2021)
SWU expressed concerns about a course being taught at the University of North Carolina by a PhD student who they consider to be an anti-Israel activist. The title of the course is "The Conflict Over Israel/Palestine." One of the professors tweets that was highlighted by the Jewish News Service said in part "Palestinians are being murdered for just being alive" and called the United States an "imperialist death cult".
SWU asked the university to monitor his teachings, record the classes for public, and asked that the title be changed to reflect the professor's bias on the topic. [53]
Condemnation of Paul Ghozar (2021)
SWU condemned Arizona Republican Congressman Paul Gosar and called on him to apologize for his role as the keynote speaker at the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC). The conference was organized by white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.
The SWU CEO released as statement saying, "The appearance of a sitting U.S. member of Congress at a white-supremacist conference legitimizes racism and anti-Semitism." [54]
Finances
According to Cause IQ, SWU's revenue and expenses for the fiscal year 2018 were $14,216,002 and $13,133,678 respectively.[1] According to tax filings from 2009, over half of SWU's budget goes to fund student activities on U.S. campuses.[15]
The pro-Palestinian website the Electronic Intifada reported in 2009 that Susan Wexner had donated over $850,000 and Andrew Hochberg over $400,000 to SWU.[55] Another major donor was Adam Milstein who donated $851,500 to SWU from 2004 and 2016 according to The Intercept.[11] Sheldon Adelson has also donated to SWU.[18] SWU's educational program, the Emerson Fellowship, is funded by J. Steve and Rita Emerson.[33]
In 2009, nearly 15% of the group's budget went to the Israeli office, which trains 150 Israeli students each year, in conjunction with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to develop their advocacy skills.[15][56]
In January 2015, the investigative Israeli website The Seventh Eye reported that SWU would receive $254,000 from the Prime Ministers Office,[57] to setup a "Social Media Ambassadors" program to educate young people on how to use social media to promote Israel.[58] However, according to SWU the project did not go ahead.[59]
Criticism
According to Steven M. Cohen, Professor of Jewish Social Policy at Hebrew Union College, SWU's insistence that Jews support whatever official policy is announced by Israel is deleterious, and harms Israel, for, were it accepted, it would discourage American Jews from providing good advice to Israel or indeed from actively participating in the discourse on that country. The way forward is to engage with Zionists of all camps, from hilltop youth to far leftists in the movement.[6]
In 2014 Israeli columnist Bradley Burston took SWU to task for what he considered question-begging assertions passed off as facts in material used by the organization to teach college students about Israel. Both its assertions about the putative legality of settlements and the reasons why Israel refuses to allow Palestinians room for their capital in Jerusalem were in his view lies.[60] According to Electronic Intifada, an October 2009 investigation by Inter Press Service found that SWU has received funds from a "web of funders who support organisations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East." EI reported that SWU's director countered by stating, "Radical Islam has impacted the Middle East greatly. All this stuff comes from a very fundamentalist religious position and looking at it does not make you right- or left-wing."[61]
According to David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi in their 2009 work The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics thirty-three organizations, including AIPAC, the Zionist Organization of America, the American Jewish Congress, the Jewish National Fund along with StandWithUs, belong to the Israel on Campus Coalition. They state that these organizations are not interested in "the niceties of intellectual exchange and academic process. Insinuation, accusation, and defamation have become the weapons of first resort to respond to argument and criticism directed at Israeli policies."[62]
The right-wing Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticized SWU in 2018 for claiming that Israel "officially supports the two-state solution". ZOA stated that Israel opposes a Palestinian state and slammed SWU's claim as "extremely harmful" and a "serious falsehood".[63]
SWU has used Israel's policy on LGBT rights to promote Israel to anti-Zionists,[64] and has been accused of pinkwashing.[65]
In November 2011, Nathan Guttman criticized SWU for toeing the line of the right-wing Israeli government. As examples, he mentioned SWU education materials describing the Israeli settlements as legal, and the 1948 Palestinian exodus as not being caused by Israel.[15]
A report authored by David Miller and two co-authors states that SWU works closely with the Israeli government,[66][67][68], they support Israeli settlements, and do not believe the West Bank is occupied.[69][70]
In terms of its position within a large range of American Jewish pro-Israeli movements, sociologist Dov Waxman says that StandWithUs lies on the right wing of the spectrum of American Jewish groups, together with such groups as The David Project, the Zionist Organization of America, the Israel Project, and the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. [71]
See also
- Christians United for Israel
- Hasbara Fellowships
- The David Project
- AMCHA Initiative
- Israel lobby in the United States
- Public diplomacy of Israel
References
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- ^ Bouarrouj 2019: the Israel Emergency Alliance/StandWithUs
- ^ "Documents Prove "Creative Community for Peace" is Front for Right Wing Israel Lobby Group "StandWithUs"". 4 October 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
Creative Community for Peace and Israeli government-linked StandWithUs are simply alternate names for a single IRS-registered non-profit: Israel Emergency Alliance.
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the presence of right-wing organizations including the Zionist Organization of America and StandWithUs.
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the right-wing Israel-advocacy group StandWithUs
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- ^ Both Rothstein and Seid have written, in a review of Dror Moreh’s documentary The Gatekeepers based on Moreh's interviews with 6 of Israel's top security experts, that ‘deeply partisan political message’ to imply, as they think the documentary does, that terrorism will subside and peace ensue if Israel withdraws from its occupation of the West Bank. Roz Rothstein, Roberta Seid, The Dishonesty of the Gatekeepers, Jerusalem Post 13 February 2013;Zahi Zalloua,Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question:Beyond the Jew and the Greek, Bloomsbury Publishing 2017 ISBN 978-1-474-29921-3 p.138 n.45.
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The brief further argues that the Arizona law is constitutional and does not curtail anyone's First Amendment rights, according to a StandWithUs press release. "The Act does not constrain... expression of political views; it addresses nonexpressive conduct not entitled to First Amendment protection."
- ^ Cuffman, Timothy (May 29, 2018). "The State Power to Boycott a Boycott: The Thorny Constitutionality of State Anti-BDS Laws". Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3186369. SSRN 3186369. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
Though the specific provisions of anti-BDS laws vary widely, they have taken two primary forms: (1) contract-focused laws that condition the receipt of government contracts on an entity certifying that it is not boycotting and will not boycott Israel; and (2) investment-focused laws that mandate public investment funds to divest from entities involved in boycotts of Israel.
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- ^ JNS 2015.
- ^ The Times of Israel 2015: The project described in this article did not go ahead. According to StandWithUs, “it was intended to run for one year, 2015, pending final approval by both StandWithUs and the National Information Directorate, which was not fulfilled.”
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- ^ Burston 2018: the right-wing Zionist Organization of America ... slammed ... StandWithUs ... for ... the "extremely harmful" and "serious falsehood" that Israel officially supports the two-state solution; Oppenheim 2018: One of the talking points included, “Israel does not oppose the notion of an independent Palestinian state, and officially supports the two-state solution.” ... ZOA criticized SWU, alleging that, “In fact, Israel OPPOSES a Palestinian state. ..."
- ^ Jankovic, Colleen (2013). ""You Can't Film Here": Queer Political Fantasy and Thin Critique of Israeli Occupation in "The Bubble"". Canadian Journal of Film Studies. 22 (2): 101. doi:10.3138/cjfs.22.2.97. ISSN 0847-5911. JSTOR 24411810 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Sirvent & Haiphong 2019, p. 295.
- ^ Cronin, Marusek & Miller 2016, p. 49: known to work closely with the Israeli government
- ^ Guttman 2011:"the group’s unusually close coordination with Israel’s government"
- ^ Surkes, Sue. "Dimona's African Hebrews launch campaign to stay put as deportations loom". www.timesofisrael.com.
an American pro-Israel advocacy organization that works closely with the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
- ^ Cronin, Marusek & Miller 2016, p. 49: StandWithUs supports the settlement project, claiming it is legal and distributing material saying that the West Bank is not occupied land.
- ^ Guttman 2011: A possible clue to SWU's own view may be seen in a high-visibility video clip it produced in July 2011 starring ... Danny Ayalon ... Ayalon dismissed the notation that the West Bank was occupied land.
- ^ Dov Waxman, The Israel Lobbies: A Survey of the Pro-Israel Community in the United States Israel Studies Forum Vol. 25, No. 1 (Summer 2010), pp. 5-28: Referring to this grouping, Waxman states that it is ’very hawkish, skeptical of the value of diplomacy and negotiation, suspicious of engagement, and opposed to Israeli concessions to its enemies. It embraces the use of military force, and believes that it should be applied ruthlessly and devastatingly when necessary. Above all, it supports Israel’s control of the West Bank, and opposes a division of Jerusalem and the establishment of a Palestinian state. The right-wing lobby tends to regard the Palestinians not as potential partners for peace, but as implacable foes of Israel.’p.12.
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