Ilana Herman, a senior at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, knows full well why it's important for StandWithUs, the international Israel education organization, to have a presence on local high school campuses.

Herman is one of six South Florida high school interns for StandWithUs (SWU) who will spread pro-Israel messages on their campuses and in their communities following the recent StandWithUs High School Intern Conference in Los Angeles.

"I had a U.S. history teacher who brought up the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while telling us about the Oslo Accords," Herman said. "This teacher claimed that Palestine was a country and that Israelis were stealing land from the Palestinians — convincing my class that Israelis were horrible, selfish monsters.

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