Contributed by Islamist Watch Writing Fellow for the Middle East Forum Benjamin Baird and director of academic affairs and director of Campus Watch at the Middle East Forum Winfield Myers. The University of Texas at Austin (UT) boasts a large and, at first glance, thriving Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
The Complexity of Jewish Opinions
It is no secret that young Jewish Americans are opinionated and passionate about the State of Israel. With Israel groups on college campuses and majors dedicated to studying Israel and the Middle East, it is easy to actively engage with the conversation. Jewish Americans are taking this interest further and...
Is Antisemitism Becoming Mainstream? Experts See Alarming Trend in Media, Campus and Public Life
Moderating a panel in Jerusalem this week titled “The Mainstreaming of Antisemitism: The Media, BDS and Celebrated Bigotry,” David Hazony, executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund, analyzed the issue right off the bat: “What you are seeing on [North American college] campuses is only a thin slice of the...
Israel Gets Red-Carpet Treatment in New York City
“…CAMERA empowers readers, students, academics, politicians, business leaders and the general public to address these distortions in reporting about the Middle East, and to defend Israel against egregious accusations and harmful inaccuracies in the media.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Some 500 supporters of Israel gathered in New York City...
Outstanding Students Awarded at CAMERA Gala 2019
Two outstanding CAMERA on Campus fellows were honored at our annual gala on June 2nd, 2019. Maynooth University Fellow Daniel O’Dowd received the David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Student Leadership, and Swarthmore College Fellow Matthew Stein received the David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Campus Activism. Both students faced especially grueling...
Postmodernism and Israel: Fluidity of Words Has Real-World Implications
The debate as to whether anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism has been used to pummel Israel supporters into submission by claiming that criticism towards Israel is merely the former, even when the criticism transgresses all parameters of acceptable critique and veers into the territory of bigotry. Likewise, the phenomenon...
Game of Words: The “Colonization” of the West Bank
On January 23rd, French President Emmanuel Macron, a firm supporter of the State of Israel, declared in a press conference that colonization of the Palestinian territories by the Israelis constituted an obstacle to peace between the two parties. Whether the French President is right or wrong, there is much to...
One Day In Gaza: A Worthwhile Watch? Or Typical BBC Bias?
On 13th May 2019, the BBC aired One Day In Gaza for the first time, marking a year since the most fateful day of the “Great March of Return” protests: the 14th May 2018, when around 60 Palestinians were killed. At least 50 of the dead were members of Hamas; of course, this is something...