Tag: Israel Advocacy
For the 3,500 teens at the annual BBYO convention, the world needs their help
DALLAS—Seventeen-year-old Swedish climate-change activist Greta Thunberg was not at BBYO’s International Convention here last week, but when her name was mentioned, throngs of teenagers applauded and screamed as if she was.
That’s because climate-change activism...
Don’t let Bernie Sanders get away with redefining ‘pro-Israel’
Linda Sarsour did it again. The Palestinian-American BDS activist/anti-Trump “resistance” activist spoke at a conference of American Muslims for Palestine and let loose with another rhetorical missile at the Jews. In a speech aimed...
Pro-Israel, Jewish leaders react to massive rocket fire from Gaza
Jewish and pro-Israel organizations condemned the more than 150 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel on Tuesday, following the latter assassinating Palestinian Islamic Jihad senior leader Baha Abu al-Ata in coastal enclave.
A U.S. State...
Jewish organizations ‘deeply troubled’ by Democrats’ talk of leveraging US aid to Israel
The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group of 50 Jewish organizations, released a statement on Nov. 1 condemning the Democratic presidential candidates saying that aid to Israel should be used as leverage...
The David Project officially becomes Hillel’s Center for Community Outreach
The David Project, an Israel-advocacy group, has evolved into Hillel International’s Hillel U Center for Community Outreach.
It became part of Hillel International’s Israel Engagement and Education department in 2017 after it was founded by...
American nonprofit’s strategic tours offer ‘immense exposure,’ new perspective on Israel
A group of 42 legal, international relations and military leaders from around the world met with Israeli military officials and politicians this month to participate in workshops and sessions focusing on Israel’s foreign and...
The Israel Project shutters its offices after nearly two decades
The nonpartisan educational group The Israel Project (TIP) closed its office in Israel last week and is expected to do the same in Washington.
Started in 2002, the pro-Israel organization saw a massive decline in...
Israel Project CEO Josh Block leaving after seven years
Josh Block, a former Clinton aide, announced on Monday that he is stepping down after seven years as CEO and president of the nonpartisan educational group The Israel Project (TIP).
Block announced his departure in a...
Is anti-Semitism becoming mainstream? Experts see alarming trend in media, campus and public life
Moderating a panel in Jerusalem this week titled “The Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism: The Media, BDS and Celebrated Bigotry,” David Hazony, executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund, analyzed the issue right off the bat:...
Summer camp serves as a bridge between young Israelis and Diaspora Jewry
Kibbutz Shfayim is simply gorgeous. With palm trees and Hebrew signs everywhere, it doesn’t have the feel of an American summer camp.
Yet somehow, with enough American camp staff, small bunk-like guest houses and goofy...