Formation 2012 Founded 2012 | Type 501(c)(3) non-profit | |
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Founders Ilan Sinelnikov (President of the Organization)
Valeria Chazin (Chairwoman, Board of Directors)
Naor Bitton (Senior Advisor, Board of Directors) Focus Pro Israel Campus Activity Leaders Valeria Chazin, Ilan Sinelnikov & Naor Bitton Headquarters Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Motto Pro Israel. Grassroots. Movement. Similar Hasbara Fellowships, StandWithUs, Israel Project, Shurat HaDin, Christians United for Israel | ||
Students supporting israel ssi
Students Supporting Israel (also known as SSI) is a pro-Israel international campus movement that supports Israel as a Jewish Democratic nation-state. As of April 2015, SSI has more than 45 chapters across campuses in the United States, Canada and Austria. SSI was founded in 2012 in Minnesota and its national offices are in Minneapolis. The founders of the organizations are: Ilan Sinelnikov, Valeria Chazin and Naor R. Bitton.
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Mission
SSI states its mission as:
... to create a clear and confident Pro-Israel voice on college campuses, and to support students in grassroots Pro-Israel advocacy... to provide students on college campuses and universities with the opportunity to support the position of Israel in the Middle East, and to reassure students who opposed the demonization of the state of Israel on campus that they are not alone.
Awards and achievements
In 2015, SSI won the Outstanding Outreach and Pro Israel Activism Award by Israel’s Consulate to the Midwest. In 2014 it won the CAMERA David Bar Illan award, as well as the Zionist Organization of America Annual Award. As a student group, it has demonstrated influence in student government bodies on several occasions including the Israeli Academic Cooperation position statement at the University of Minnesota, which paved the way for a similar Israeli Support Resolution at the University of Georgia followed shortly by Texas A&M University,
Augsburg College charter denial
The student government of Augsburg College, a private Lutheran College in Minnesota, originally denied a charter to SSI as an Augsburg College student group. The college received criticism for the decision, and less than two weeks later Augsburg’s vice president of student affairs released a statement, announcing that the Augsburg Student Government's "decision is being overturned and SSI is being recognized as chartered."