I was performing a cardiac catheterization in Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center when a deafening siren abruptly halted my procedure. The noise was so loud that it was painful. I removed my sterile gloves placing my bare hands over my ears, but to no avail. When the excruciating noise finally...
CAMERA on Campus conference trains student fellows in advocacy and combating media bias
More than 70 student leaders and fellows—joined by over a dozen advisers from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, France and Israel—gathered in Boston on Aug. 4–6 for the 2025 International Student Leadership Conference hosted by CAMERA on Campus, a program of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and...
Beware: AI may be fueling Antisemitism
How frequently do you message your favorite AI chatbot to answer a quick question? Do you still trust its responses? In its early stages, this technology made glaring errors which stimulated a healthy amount of skepticism. But since evolving past simple arithmetic errors, this tool has become an almost, ubiquitously...
From Chalkboard to Ballot Box: The Political Stakes of Ethnic Studies
Following the deep dive into classroom instruction in Part III, this final section explores the broader societal and political implications of ethnic studies, particularly when ideology informs instruction and scales up to influence public opinion and foreign policy. By Charles A. Stone In 2025, approximately 418,000 California high school students...
Curriculum Is Policy, But Teachers Are Power
Building on the curricular divide explored in Part II, this essay looks beyond policy into the classroom itself, where teachers—not lawmakers—hold the real power over what students learn. By Charles A. Stone Curriculum provides structure, but in every classroom, the teacher holds the true power. While policy dictates the framework,...
כיצד כלי תקשורת במיינסטרים הישראלי מלבינים את התעמולה של ארגון ‘עומדים ביחד’
ב-30 ביוני פרסם עמוד הפייסבוק של ‘כאן חדשות’, תמונה מרגשת של עזתים, בניהם גם כאלה שאיבדו את בני משפחתם, אוחזים בתמונות ילדים ישראלים שנרצחו בטבח ה-7 באוקטובר. הפוסט בפייסבוק זכה ליותר מ-16,000 לייקים ולחשיפה רבה. בסופו נכתב ש”המחאות החלו ביוזמתה של תנועת ‘עומדים ביחד’, שקיימה בחודשים האחרונים מחאות דומות בישראל להפסקת המלחמה...
Two Visions, One Classroom: The Struggle Over Ethnic Studies Curricula
As Part I explored the legislative and ideological groundwork of ethnic studies in California, part II dives into the curricular fault lines where conflicting visions of inclusion and resistance define what students encounter in the classroom. California’s journey to institutionalize ethnic studies is not merely a legislative one. At its...
UK Home Office rejection of bid to de-Proscribe Hamas
On July 10th, 2025, the UK Home Office has officially rejected an application to de-proscribe Hamas, reaffirming its classification as a banned terrorist organisation under British law. The decision follows a formal request by Riverway to the Sea, representing senior Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marzouk, to de-proscribe the terrorist organization and, consequently, decriminalise...
