Israel on Campus Coalition
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The Israel on Campus Coalition is a pro-Israel umbrella organization founded in 2002 under the auspices of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. The organization was created in order "to evaluate the worrisome rise in anti-Israel activities on college campuses across North America" and "serves as the central coordinating and strategic body to address campus issues and intelligently impact a pro-active, pro-Israel agenda on campus."[1]
Programming
Speakers Bureau
The coalition coordinates a speakers' bureaus that incorporates numerous speakers from its member organization.[2]
Grants
The ICC offers Israel Advocacy Grants "to provide seed-money for student-initiated Israel advocacy initiatives that produce a more positive view of Israel on campus."[3]
Member organizations
The ICC comprises 33 organizations "committed to a pro-active, pro-Israel agenda on college campuses":[4]
- Aish HaTorah / Hasbara Fellowships
- Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) Fraternity and Foundation
- Alpha Epsilon Phi (ΑΕΦ) Sorority and Foundation
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
- American Jewish Committee (AJC)
- The American Jewish Congress
- American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE)
- Americans for Peace Now (APN)
- Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
- Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)
- Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
- The David Project Center for Jewish Leadership
- Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
- Israel Program Center
- Israel University Consortium (IUC)
- Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA)
- Jewish National Fund (JNF)
- Jewish Virtual Library
- KESHER - Union for Reform Judaism (URJ)
- KOACH - United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ)
- Media Watch International (MWI)
- StandWithUs
- Union of Progressive Zionists
- Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (OU)
- United Jewish Communities (UJC)
- USD - Hagshama of the World Zionist Organization
- Yavneh Olami
- YJ Impact!, sponsored by Hadassah
- Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)
(Affiliate Members)
- Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation
- BlueStar PR
- The Israel Project (TIP)
- MASA Israel Journey
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Campus Outreach
References
External links
- Israel on Campus Coalition
- Israel on Campus Coalition: About Us: Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
- Israel on Campus Coalition: Members
- Israel on Campus Coalition: Speakers
- Voices of Oklahoma interview with Lynn Schusterman. First person interview conducted on September 14, 2010 with Lynn Schusterman. Original audio and transcript archived with Voices of Oklahoma oral history project.