{"id":7238,"date":"2026-03-06T20:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/7238\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:51:11","slug":"nate-neustadt-leads-george-washington-universitys-pro-israel-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/7238\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Neustadt Leads George Washington University’s Pro-Israel Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nate Neustadt. (Photo credit: Alexandra Tauber)<\/p>\n

Nate Neustadt is a Jewish student leader through and through.<\/p>\n

The sophomore at George Washington University got involved in GW for Israel as soon as he stepped foot on campus \u2014 he is now the president of the student organization. Because of Neustadt\u2019s history of Jewish leadership roles, he figured serving as the president of a student group was inevitable in college.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got to campus, I kind of just assumed it would eventually happen, just knowing who I was,\u201d the Washington, D.C., resident said.<\/p>\n

During his early childhood in Bozeman, Montana, Neustadt wasn\u2019t surrounded by many Jewish people. Then, he and his family moved to San Diego when he was 6 years old, where he was raised in a \u201cReform, borderline-Conservative\u201d Jewish household.<\/p>\n

Neustadt attended a Jewish day school from fifth to eighth grade. \u201cWe would have Torah study classes \u2026 We would learn and dissect and debate, and then learn some more,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n

He was heavily involved in his local chapter of BBYO, and served as president of the Southern California region of the Jewish youth organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing Jewish was always something that was very central to who I was as a person,\u201d Neustadt said.<\/p>\n

His high school experience also lent itself to his Israel advocacy, entrenched in what he described as a \u201cvery, very antisemitic\u201d environment. \u201cI always just grew up fighting for that, being the advocate that the bunch of Jewish students needed at my school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Neustadt interned with StandWithUs, an international Israel education organization, during his senior year of high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s really what gave me the training to then do what I\u2019m now able to do,\u201d he said. \u201cThe minute I got to GW, I was put in touch with the board members of GW for Israel, and I started from there and got involved. So it was always something that I knew I would be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n

As president of GW for Israel, Neustadt leads a board of 10 students who cover a cultural and educational team and a political arm. \u201cWhat\u2019s very unique about us \u2014 and we can get to do this since we\u2019re an organization in D.C. \u2014 we have a political arm called RevPAC,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Launched in January 2024, RevPAC members lobby on Capitol Hill and sometimes influence legislative policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur reach as an organization isn\u2019t just on campus \u2014 it\u2019s also to the halls of Congress, which I think is pretty amazing,\u201d Neustadt said.<\/p>\n

He also takes the safety of fellow members seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince [GW for Israel] is a bit of a controversial organization on campus, I work very closely with the school\u2019s administration to make sure anything we do is safe and that we have security and that the administration itself is also supporting us Jewish students,\u201d Neustadt said. \u201cI\u2019m in constant contact with our dean of students \u2026 I\u2019ve had multiple conversations with the president of our university, Ellen Granberg, about everything going on on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he\u2019s been satisfied so far with the support he\u2019s received from the university administration, so much so that he is drafting an op-ed for the school newspaper, The Hatchet, countering an article that claimed that GW\u2019s administration doesn\u2019t do enough for its Jewish students.<\/p>\n

Neustadt stays busy, between double majoring in international affairs and international business and interning for Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick \u2014 where he\u2019s the only Jewish staffer in the office.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen things pop up about Israel or about what\u2019s going on currently in the Middle East, or if we\u2019re meeting with some lobbyists from a Jewish organization, I\u2019m usually the one that they also bring into the meeting, just to be there as well [as to] answer questions coming from a different perspective,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Neustadt also serves as the rush chair of GW\u2019s chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity, and an Emerson fellow with StandWithUs.<\/p>\n

In addition to his leadership roles, Neustadt makes time to stay involved in the Jewish community as a member of Chabad GW.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing part of the Jewish community is something that\u2019s very, very important to me,\u201d Neustadt said.<\/p>\n

When searching for colleges, he specifically looked for campuses with robust chapters of Hillel and Chabad and a large Jewish student population.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, just being involved is just of utmost importance,\u201d Neustadt said. \u201cI think having a Jewish community wherever you are is so incredibly important because you know that you have your people that you can fall back on if something happens, or you\u2019re around people with shared histories and shared stories and something else you can bond over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neustadt often takes involvement a step further.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to take leadership roles,\u201d he said. \u201cI like to do more than just being involved. So it\u2019s about being involved, but also helping foster the Jewish community as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

He looks forward to continuing his work leading GW for Israel, combating the anti-Israel rhetoric he sees on campus, and maintaining a close relationship with the GW administration to ensure Jewish safety on campus. Neustadt is also leaving in May to study abroad at Tel Aviv University for a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to continuing my work here on campus, and then getting out of here in May, then coming back a year later and restarting where I left off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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