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The ICC National Leadership Summit: Empowering Leaders for a Stronger Future
The ICC National Leadership Summit is one of the most important events for professionals, business owners, and community leaders who want to grow their leadership skills and expand their networks. The summit brings together experienced executives, industry experts, and rising leaders to share ideas, discuss current challenges, and explore new opportunities.
Strengthening Washington–Israel Relations: A Lasting Strategic Partnership
The relationship between Washington and Israel has long been shaped by shared goals, mutual trust, and a commitment to regional stability. Supporting the Washington–Israel relationship means encouraging cooperation in diplomacy, security, innovation, and economic development. This partnership is not only about government ties but also about shared values such as democratic governance, technological progress, and long-term peace efforts in a complex region.
Strengthening Future Leadership at the ICC National Leadership Summit
The ICC National Leadership Summit serves as a powerful platform for emerging leaders who aim to strengthen their skills and broaden their perspectives. It brings together participants from different regions into a shared learning environment focused on leadership development. Because of this structure, the summit encourages active engagement and meaningful exchange. At the same time, the program highlights how leadership shapes society at multiple levels.
Why Supporting the U.S.-Israel Relationship Matters
The relationship between the U.S. and Israel is rooted in shared democratic values, mutual respect, and a long history of cooperation. Since Israel’s founding in 1948, both nations have worked closely together in areas such as security, technology, trade, and cultural exchange. This partnership has grown stronger over time because it is based not only on strategic interests but also on common principles such as freedom, the rule of law, and human rights.
Insights from the ICC National Leadership Summit
The ICC National Leadership Summit has become one of the most highly anticipated events for aspiring and established leaders across the United States. This dynamic gathering brings together professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and community leaders to share insights, strategies, and experiences that shape the future of leadership.
Transformative Power of the ICC Geller International Fellowship
In today’s rapidly changing global environment, the need for informed, open-minded, and culturally aware young leaders is more critical than ever. The ICC Geller International Fellowship serves as a beacon for college students seeking to deepen their understanding of Israel, diplomacy, and international relations while gaining practical experience. This program, founded by the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC), provides an immersive platform for students to explore complex global issues.
Empowering Leaders Today
The ICC National Leadership Summit stands as a premier event for emerging and established leaders, offering a platform to share strategies, explore innovations, and inspire impactful action. Attendees gather from across industries to collaborate, learn from expert speakers, and strengthen networks that foster personal and professional growth. By participating in the summit, individuals and organizations demonstrate a commitment to leadership development, strategic thinking, and visionary planning.
Building Lasting Bonds: The Vital Role of U.S.-Israel Support
The relationship between the United States and Israel represents one of the most enduring alliances in modern history. At its core, U.S.–Israel support reflects shared democratic values, strategic interests, and mutual benefits that extend well beyond borders. Strengthening this partnership has consistently promoted regional stability, technological advancement, and cultural exchange.
Why Supporting the U.S.-Israel Relationship Matters
In today’s rapidly changing world, strong international alliances are more important than ever. One of the most enduring and vital partnerships in American foreign policy is the U.S.–Israel relationship. Built on shared values, strategic cooperation, and mutual respect, this bond has helped both nations navigate challenges, develop groundbreaking technologies, and promote democratic ideals in a turbulent region.
U.S. University Students Are Strengthening the U.S.-Israel Alliance
In a time when international alliances are increasingly scrutinized. University students across the United States are stepping up to advocate for the long-standing relationship between the U.S. and Israel. While college campuses are often portrayed as hotbeds of political division. Many student groups are working tirelessly to promote dialogue, education, and engagement centered on the U.S.–Israel alliance.
Pro-Israel Activism: Empowering Voices and Shaping Perspectives
In a world where global narratives shift quickly, pro-Israel activism has emerged as a key force in shaping international understanding of Israel’s history, policies, and challenges. It involves engaging in constructive dialogue, advocating for accurate representation in media, and ensuring Israel’s story is told relatively in academic, political, and social spaces.
The Impact of the ICC Geller International Fellowship
Innovation drives progress, and nurturing bright minds is essential for shaping a better future. The ICC Geller International Fellowship stands as a beacon of opportunity, providing young innovators with the resources, mentorship, and global perspective needed to make meaningful contributions to their fields. Through this prestigious program, future leaders gain the skills and confidence required to tackle global challenges and drive transformative change.
SJP Does Not Belong on Campus | SAPIR Journal
University administrators seem to be surprised that they have been incubating some of the leading and most active antisemites in America. In their reactions to the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and then to subsequent outrages against Jewish students and campus communities, they seem mystified.
Students for Justice in Palestine goes beyond advocacy
The videos don’t lie.
Glorifying Hamas on campus (opinion)
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Students from Hunter College in New York participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration last week. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Imagine if, less than a week after the mass terror attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015, a group of students on American campuses held rallies praising the ISIS-aligned attackers. Imagine if they held up posters that called for more of the same.
Jacob Baime, at The Blogs
Jacob Baime is CEO of Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC), which unites and empowers pro-Israel campus organizations, providing strategic coordination and expertise to strengthen support for Israel.
Brave Space: Rabbi Matt Gewirtz Lights the Way for a Better World
I am indebted to the wisdom of Rabbi Matthew C. Gewirtz. In his new book “To Build a Brave Space: the Making of a Spiritual First Responder,” he tells the compelling story of his life’s mission: to uphold Jewish values in the modern world and to be able to share them with congregants and others, whatever their backgrounds.
Brave Space: Rabbi Matt Gewirtz Lights the Way for a Better World - Jacob Baime
I am indebted to the wisdom of Rabbi Matthew C. Gewirtz. In his new book “To Build a Brave Space: the Making of a Spiritual First Responder,” he tells the compelling story of his life’s mission: to uphold Jewish values in the modern world and to be able to share them with congregants and others, whatever their backgrounds.
UC Berkeley must act against Jewish-free spaces
In August, a BDS-aligned group called Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine (BLSJP) persuaded nine affinity groups at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law – including several with large constituencies, such as the Women of Berkeley Law, the Queer Caucus, the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and Law Students of African Descent – to adopt a bylaw excluding any supporters of Israel’s existence.
Wellesley News’ Dangerously Slanted Editorial Will Spark Antisemitism
The Wellesley News one-sided, incendiary and misleading call for “the liberation of Palestine” and pledge of support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, a force the U.S. State Department has labeled “a manifestation of antisemitism” is more than misguided or misleading, it is flat out disgraceful and dangerous.
With Map of Jews in Boston, BDS Antisemitic Threat Now Clear and Present
BDS Boston, a local supporter of the international campaign to “de-normalize” Israel and end its existence through Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), recently shared a map linking Massachusetts-area Jewish institutions to government entities, the media and the police and connecting them to sinister activities.
What happens on campus does not stay on campus
In a recent column in Foreign Policy magazine, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Steven A. Cook makes the case that “by all measures, Israel’s normalization in the world is complete… The BDS movement has already lost.” Regretfully, I can assure Mr. Cook and his readers that this is not the case.
The story of Unilever’s war on the Jewish state - opinion
As states such as North Carolina consider withdrawing public pension funds from Unilever and its subsidiaries over its de facto boycott of Israel, it is time to review the story of Unilever’s divestment from Israel. On July 19, 2021, Ben & Jerry’s abruptly informed its Israeli distributor and manufacturer of nearly 35 years, American Quality Products, by letter that they would not continue the agreement past December 31, 2022, effectively ending their presence in the State of Israel.
AMP should inspire dialogue, not incite division
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US - Israel academic collaboration increases dramatically
Andrew Hamilton, the president of New York University, recently said it best by speaking truth to malice and defending American academia’s independence.
Israel on campus: Now for the good news
When you only hear the bad news, it’s easy to conclude that the pro-Israel movement on campus is on the defensive – or worse, on the decline. Over the past year, headline after headline has suggested that the campus environment is toxic to pro-Israel students. Even potentially dangerous. But what’s often presented is an incomplete picture. It’s true that there has been a significant increase in anti-Israel activity on college campuses.
Survivors, world leaders to mark Auschwitz liberation
WARSAW — Seventy years after it was liberated, 300 Auschwitz survivors — most now in their 90s — will on Tuesday return to the former Nazi death camp, the site of the largest single number of murders committed during World War II. Between 1940-45 some 1.1 million people, including one million Jews, perished in the twin death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau created by Nazi Germany in Oswiecim, southern Poland.
One of the world's largest ships named after SS officer
Jewish groups in the Netherlands and Britain have voiced indignation over the docking in Rotterdam of one of the world’s largest ships, the Pieter Schelte, which is named after a Dutchman who served in the Nazi Waffen SS, the Guardian reported Saturday.
Reporter covering Nisman's death flees Argentina
A journalist credited with being the first to report the gunshot death of federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman has left Argentina because of fear for his safety. Damian Pachter of the English-language Buenos Aires Herald left the country Saturday, the local journalism group Foro de Periodismo Argentino said. The group said Pachter reported on Friday he was followed by unknown people and felt his safety was at risk but did not elaborate.
US appeals court upholds dismissal of Holocaust suits
CHICAGO — Holocaust survivors and heirs of victims can’t sue Hungary’s national bank and railway in the US for the theft of cash, art and other assets from Hungarian Jews until they first exhaust their legal options in Hungary, a US appeals court ruled Friday. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upholds a lower court’s dismissal of the lawsuits filed in the Northern District of Illinois in 2010.
Protester shot dead at leftist party march in central Cairo
CAIRO — A female protester was shot dead by police at a march in downtown Cairo Saturday, her political party said in a statement. The leftist Popular Alliance party said that police shot its member Shaimaa el-Sabagh with birdshot Saturday evening as the group peacefully marched toward Tahrir Square to lay a commemorative wreath of roses on the eve of the 4th anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising.
World watches with concern as Greeks head to the polls
ATHENS, Greece — Syriza, the radical left-wing party that has vowed to rewrite the terms of the country’s international bailout and end harsh austerity measures, held the lead in the last polls released ahead of Sunday’s national election. The last nine polls published on Friday — the last day of campaigning — showed Syriza’s lead over the ruling New Democracy conservatives trending upward. Syriza led by anywhere from 2.8 to 6.7 percentage points.
Palestinians march against Charlie Hebdo cartoon
RAMALLAH — Thousands of Palestinians marched Saturday in the West Bank in protest over the latest cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad published by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Answering calls by the Liberation Party, an Islamist group, demonstrators rallied in the cities of Ramallah and Hebron, some carrying banners expressing faith in Islam and others wearing black headbands calling for the establishment of a Muslim caliphate, AFP photographers said.
Israeli book chain scales back Charlie Hebdo sales drive
A major Israeli book chain has dropped plans for an in-store promotion for the latest edition of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, with a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad, local media said Saturday. Israel Radio said that the Steimatzky chain had intended to hold a promotional event in a branch in the Tel Aviv area but later decided that orders for the issue — which has sparked sometimes deadly protests across the Muslim world — would now be taken only through its website.
French soldier mistakenly shoots gun outside Jewish center
A French soldier guarding a Jewish community center in Nice accidentally discharged his weapon outside the building. The soldier fired three shots from his firearm on Thursday outside the city’s Chabad center, according to Le Parisien. The incident ended without injury or damage to property. The weapon was pointing downward and the volley hit the ground, according to the Nice edition of the France 3 television channel.
Bomb threat against 2 planes at Atlanta airport
ATLANTA — Police were searching two planes at Atlanta’s main airport Saturday after authorities received what they described as credible bomb threats. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport spokesman Reese McCranie said the threats targeted a Delta flight and a Southwest flight that landed safely Saturday.
Ex-Israeli ambassador to US: PM should cancel Congress speech
The former Israeli ambassador to the US, Dr. Michael Oren, said Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should cancel his upcoming speech to the US Congress set for March 3, just two weeks before Israeli national elections. In his address, Netanyahu is expected to urge US lawmakers to slap a new round of sanctions on Iran in order to force it to comply with international demands to curb its nuclear program, a move US President Barack Obama strongly opposes and has vowed to veto.
Netanyahu eyes journalist Caroline Glick for Likud Knesset slot
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may offer US-born journalist Caroline Glick a safe slot on the Likud’s list for the March 17 elections. Glick, a senior staffer and columnist of The Jerusalem Post, a writer for Makor Rishon and a senior fellow of the US-based Center for Security Policy, would be given the 11th slot on the Likud Knesset slate, Hebrew media reports said Saturday night.
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