Hasbara Fellowships

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Hasbara Fellowships is the premiere Israel advocacy organization solely dedicated to training, inspiring, and educating Jewish college students to become ambassadors for Israel, both on campus and lifelong.  

Students participate in an intensive two-week activism training program in Israel that includes hearing from leading Israeli government officials, journalists, academics, and visits to strategic areas and borders.  Upon returning to university, Hasbara Fellows are motivated and cultivated to assume leadership positions in their pro-Israel campus movements.  

Our expansive, dedicated campus staff is active on over 200 campuses across North America and always available to our students for strategic guidance, campus visits, and materials.  

What is the need?  

Today, Israel is increasingly deligitimized on campuses via boycotts, divesment movements, anti-Israel speakers and articles, guerilla theater such as mock checkpoints and "apartheid walls", and academics who use the classroom as an avenue to denounce Israel.  

The PR battle for Israel is being waged on college campuses.  It is imperative to empower Jewish students to stand up for Israel in order to combat misinformation and convince students of the justice of Israel's cause. Moreover, it's crucial to deliver Israel's positive messages of seeking peace, humanitarian aid, environmental sustainability, democracy, and innovation.  

Why is Hasbara Fellowships so special? 

Our students and staff have one focus only: deliver Israel's message.

Often, Jewish organizations rally to respond to anti-Israel activities.  We cannot win the PR war when allowing others to set the agenda.  Instead, we train our students to focus on being proactive at getting out Israel's winning messages.

Hasbara Fellowships provides a vast number of highly professional, effective campaigns and materials to students at no cost.  

Many pro-Israel activism training programs fear offering the full spectrum of Israeli political opinion or Palestinian perspectives.  Hasbara Fellowships believes in intellectual honesty, and is committed to offering a well-balanced activism training program with unique, often unheard viewpoints.