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Join Etz JIAC & StandWithUs at 11am on Feb 21: What are our Jewish Children Confronting in School and College?
Etz Chayim’s Jewish and Israel Action Committee (Etz JIAC) invites you to join us at 11am on Sunday February 21, 2021 for an important and impactful discussion with StandWithUs.
Many people question if anecdotes about anti-semitism and anti-Zionism in colleges and schools are just hype. Is there a meaningful trend that threatens the experience our children are facing in schools and colleges? What are the broader implications for the next generation and for all of us in the US? And does the Biden presidency change anything? StandWithUs believes there is definitely something critical we need to pay attention to and more importantly, take action on. We’ll hear about it from Max Samarov, and whether you agree or disagree with his perspectives, you’ll have a special chance to ask him anything during this by-invitation event.
Speaker: Max Samarov, Executive Director of Research & Strategy at StandWithUs
StandWithUs is a non-partisan education organization dedicated to supporting Israel and fighting antisemitism around the world. StandWithUs empowers and inspires students and communities with leadership training and educational programs on hundreds of campuses, high schools, middle schools, and beyond. Through social media operations in many languages, offices across the U.S., Canada, UK, Brazil, and Israel, and many international partnerships, StandWithUs reaches millions of people worldwide with Israel’s inspiring story. With a powerful legal department and Center for Combating Antisemitism, StandWithUs fights back relentlessly against hate.
Mr. Samarov will focus on how StandWithUs empowers people to:
Stand up to anti-Israel boycott campaigns on campus
Push back against efforts to inject antisemitism and anti-Israel bias into public schools, through ethnic studies curricula, courses, and graduation requirements.
Participation is free. To join, please reserve your seat here.
Even if you’re not sure if you can make it, please sign up in advance since the Zoom credentials will be emailed in advance and not be posted online.
Max Samarov grew up in Boston and is a first-generation American. His parents fled to Israel from the Soviet Union to escape the racism and discrimination Jews faced there. He has traveled to Israel and lived there for extended periods throughout his life. Max graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2011 with a degree in political science and international relations. The focus of his research is Israel, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and the discourse about these issues on campuses. He has spent the last six years helping to educate, organize, and empower students and others across North America in the struggle against anti-Israel boycotts and other forms of bigotry. Max has been quoted by many media outlets, and contributed a chapter to the 2017 book, “The Anti-Israel Agenda: the Political War on the Jewish State”.
The Etz Chayim Jewish and Israel Action Committee (Etz JIAC) is a group of congregants who are proud and inspired by the accomplishments and contributions of Israel and Jews. We are engaged in articulating the positive aspects of Jews and Israel and working to refute both misunderstandings and deliberate lies of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement as well as anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activities on middle school, high school and college campuses across the country. We arrange for guest speakers, and provide occasional update and action alert emails so that recipients can make their voices heard. For more information, see our website: http://Etz-Jiac.org
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