Hasbara Fellowships

A little taste of Israel right here at UVic! 🇮🇱💙 Such a fun night filled with amazing food, music, and even better company! Thank you to everyone who came out, tried some new things, and helped make the evening so special. We loved getting to share a little bit of Israeli culture with everyone!

When someone wants to learn about Israel or current events, they don't open a textbook or compare articles from five different outlets. They Google it, or they ask their favorite AI tool. And where do so many of those Google results, AI answers and even Reddit replies get their information? Wikipedia. Whatever a Wikipedia article says about a topic quickly becomes how the world understands it. Who gets to tell that story, and whether antisemitism slips into it, is decided by the people writing and editing those pages. That's why we're excited to partner with Oct7 to bring you Alan Sohn, an experienced Wikipedia editor. He'll explain why advocates need to learn this tool, and he'll walk you through the real strategies and steps to become an editor who can write and edit Wikipedia articles. 📅 Wednesday, November 4 🕔 5:00 PM ET, live on Zoom Comment LEADERSHIP to save your spot Spots are limited, so RSVP now to save your place. 💙🇮🇱

"Hurt people hurt people." Really? "I've been hurt before... never occurred to me to drive a truck full of explosives into a preschool." Jihadis hurt people. #antisemitism #moralclarity #israel #jewish

You may have seen it this week: a campaign ad from Cenk Uygur's PAC, backing Abdul El-Sayed for Senate, where a family in a grocery store decides they can't afford food because of U.S. aid to Israel. That isn't a policy critique. It's one of the oldest antisemitic messages there is: because of the Jews, you can't afford groceries. It shouldn't get a pass just because it now comes with a campaign logo. It needs to be condemned and pushed back on.

Slurs. Screaming. “F*** Israel.” This is how Myron Gaines spoke to a Jewish student at the University of Florida. @uncensoredamerica Shame on you. This is what Jewish students are facing on campus. They should never have to face it alone.

The perfect trip to Israel doesn't exist… or does it? Jerusalem's Old City. Sderot and Kibbutz Be'eri (a farming community next to Gaza, attacked on October 7th). Hearing it straight from the people who lived it. A visit to Israel's Foreign Ministry. And a lot of yalla (Hebrew for "let's go"). Our fellows get to see Israel for themselves, and then return to tell its story on campus.

Everyone loves talking about creating a Palestinian state but nobody wants to answer the obvious question. Who's actually going to govern it, Mahmoud Abbas and the PA or Hamas? Either it's going to be a corrupt Arab dictatorship that has to kowtow to terrorists, or it's going to be run by the terrorists. So who do you think would run it?

These are five reasons we think you should stay quiet about Israel on your campus

Abbas just postponed Palestinian elections again, this time to September 2027. The last presidential vote was in 2005 and the last parliamentary one was in 2006, when Hamas beat his party, and the next year Hamas took over Gaza by force. So honestly it's not hard to see why he keeps pushing it off, for him an election is playing with fire. Why do you think this barely gets covered?

The forefront of our war is an education war. 🇮🇱 Advocating for Israel on college campus is an incredibly difficult and daunting feat. Brave students who stand up to take on the job need our support now more than ever before. Nothing prepares student leaders to defend Israel like walking in the footsteps of the Nova festival, seeing and experiencing the Gaza border, and having conversations with world leaders like President Herzog. Hasbara Fellowships takes strong student leaders from over 150 campuses across North America to Israel for an immersive advocacy trip, and sends them home with the tools and skills they need to lead on campus and beyond. Help send the next student leader to Israel and shape the narrative about Israel for the next generation. Join the movement 💙 #HasbaraFellowships #StandWithIsrael #IsraelAdvocacy #JewishStudents #CampusLeaders