Hillel International
Hillel International is a pro-Israel student organisation based in the US and originally founded by B'nai B'rith International. It maintains branches on hundreds of US campuses and claims to have 850 branches worldwide. In 2017 it merged with the David Project.[1]
Adam Lehman, Hillel International’s president and CEO, has called his organization "radically pluralistic, inclusive, egalitarian home for Jewish students coming from all different backgrounds".[2]
The organization imposes restrictions on activities; Hillel takes a firm stance in opposing certain types of views on Israel, such as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, and those who hold them.[3]
Hillel International and local Hillels play a role to fight anti-Semitism on college campuses.[4] Hillel provides security training to local Hillels[5] and engages in dialogue with university administrations about how to recognize and confront anti-Semitism on campus.[6] Hillel has extensive pro-Israel programming and employs post-graduate fellows from Israel from the Jewish Agency for Israel.[7] Hillel is a major partner of the Birthright Israel program.[8]
Hillel describes themselves as "steadfastedly committed to the support of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state with secure and recognized borders."[9] Their Standards of Partnership forbid campus Hillels to "partner with, house or host organizations, groups or speakers" that adopt an anti-Zionist orientation or express support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.[10] Jewish members and leaders of Hillels have criticized the organization's use use of the motto "Wherever we stand, we stand with Israel" for alienating Jewish students critical of Israeli policies, as well as for attaching a political ideology to an otherwise apolitical religious and cultural organization.[11][12] Hillel had also been criticized for its use of monopolistic tactics to assume control over the Jewish campus scene.[13][14]
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See also
- Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life is a 501(c)(3) organization, EIN# 52-1844823
Resources
- Batya Ungar-Sargon How the Israel Lobby Captured Hillel, Foreign Policy, NOVEMBER 23, 2015.
- Mark I. Rosen and Amy L. Sales The Remaking of Hillel: A CaseStudy on Leadership and Organizational Transformation January 2006 Brandeis University, Fisher-Bernstein Institute for Jewish Philanthropy and Leadership
Contact
- Web: hillel.org
Notes
- ↑ Hillel History of Hillel. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 11 October 2021.
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- ↑ Here's how Hillel's new CEO says they're fighting anti-Semitism on campus. February 6, 2020. The Forward
- ↑ Preparing Students for Anti-Semitism in College. August 21, 2019. Baltimore Jewish Times
- ↑ Hillels of Georgia Seeks Anti-Semitism Probe of Georgia Tech. January 12, 2020. Atlanta Jewish Times
- ↑ Campus Israel Fellows. Jewish Agency for Israel
- ↑ Find Your Tribe. Hillel International Taglit Birthright.
- ↑ Hillel Israel Guidelines.
- ↑ Dain Sharon, Alina. "Hillel at 90: The Jewish campus umbrella's past, present, and future". The American Israelite (Cincinnati, Ohio). November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Was University of Richmond's student Hillel leader fired for her political beliefs?. The Jewish Week.
- ↑ Jewish student sacked for having mind of her own Alberta Arab News, June 10, 2004
- ↑ New Voices: Lights Inactive - The death of a Jewish student organization.
- ↑ Hillel.org: 'Student Presidents Represent Hillel at WUJS Congress'.
