Inherent to understanding fashion is understanding people: politics, economics, power and the historical cycles we unknowingly repeat. Style has always responded to crisis, conflict and cultural anxiety. When Jewish students began wearing visible symbols of identity after Oct. 7, I didn’t see a trend, I saw communication. Rutgers has one...
‘Fundamentally, Truth Matters’: An Interview with David Litman
As part of CAMERA on Campus’s ongoing effort to help students understand truth-based advocacy and how misinformation spreads, I spoke with David Litman, one of our veteran senior researchers who is now CAMERA’s new U.S. Media Manager. He shared his insights on how media bias takes shape, how to confront...
Deconstructing and Debunking the Argument Against Israel’s Security Needs
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the word “complicated” are closely linked. This descriptor is appropriate for a geopolitical conflict that has evolved over the course of more than a century and elicits a host of competing narratives. Unfortunately, the complexity of the conflict does not always prompt rigorous study of the...
December 2024: Reflecting, Growing, and Looking Ahead
“2024 highlights: campus victories, standout articles, alumni spotlights, and ways to join us. Celebrate progress and gear up for Support Students Now! Happy New Year from the CAMERA on Campus Team! CAMERA on Campus wishes you all a happy and prosperous New Year! As we usher in 2025,...
August 2022: Looking for Summer Plans?
Newsletter – May 2022 Become Part of CAMERA on Campus Click Here to Learn about the CAMERA Fellowship from University of Miami Student, Alex Berman Congratulations to our 2022 David Bar-Illan Awardees Maya Reuven received the David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Student Activism. A recent graduate from the University of California, Berkeley, Maya served as a...
Nuance on Angela Davis Speaking at Northeastern
Photo: Monika M. Wahi/Wikimedia Commons An article published on Feb. 26 by Noah Colbert condemned a statement published by the Hillel advisory board. The statement condemned a planned event that featured Angela Davis as a speaker on the grounds that, among other things, Davis “is a staunch advocate of the BDS campaign” and “has…a...
Witnesses Dispute Claims Made by Breaking the Silence’s Joel Carmel
Photo: Oren Rozen/Wikimedia Commons “Everyone was against us. Everything in the MSM [mainstream media] was anti-Israel, and we had a responsibility to show the other side,’” Joel Carmel, a former Israel Defense Forces soldier and now English content coordinator for the Breaking the Silence NGO, said of the zeitgeist characterizing...
Unpacking the Hebrew U Hadash Student Group’s Falsehood-Ridden Video
Quite the commotion has been stirring at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem after the student group representing the Hadash political party released a propagandistic, anti-Israel video. The four-minute long clip portrays a series of noteworthy events since Israel’s inception from a Palestinian perspective. Condemning the administration for allowing IDF soldiers...
