Omar Barghouti is no stranger to controversy. Born into a Palestinian family but raised in Egypt, he later studied in the US and Israel. In 2005, he became a co-founder of the antisemitic Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement, that seeks to severe economic and academic ties with Israel, as...
How a Former Non-Zionist Became a Supporter of Israel
As a progressive, I’ve been involved in social activism for as long as I can remember. From beach cleanups in middle school to protests in high school to physically threatening public events in college, I’ve spent my life standing in solidarity with those most negatively affected by social injustice. With...
Statement on the “Harvard out of Occupied Palestine Launch” Event
CAMERA on Campus is appalled at the shameless display of ignorant hatred at the “Harvard out of Occupied Palestine Launch Event” on February 20th, 2020. On multiple occasions throughout the night, students and panelists uttered patently absurd slurs, ranting about the “Israeli settler-colonial state,” Harvard’s supposed “nursing” of the “Israeli-Zionist...
When Will Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine Stop Endorsing A Terror Organization?
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel/Wikimedia Commons On Tuesday, Jan. 28, Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine shared a post on Facebook from the Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists page. The post read, “This is how you respond to Trump and Netanyahu’s calls for ‘negotiation’ and ‘peace talks’ based on their plan for permanent apartheid”...
Israelis Live Through Constant Fear
Photo: (Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons) Some may ask how Israel, a Jewish state, properly represents its minority Arab population. When speaking at the University of Florida this November, Yoseph Haddad explained exactly this. As an Arab-Israeli Christian, Haddad demonstrated to students how Arabs, who account for 21% of Israel’s population,...
Whitewashing Hamas at Georgetown
“There are Jews everywhere! We must attack every Jew on planet Earth! We must slaughter and kill them, with Allah’s help. … You can buy knives for five shekels! How much is the neck of a Jew worth to us? Isn’t it worth five shekels, or even less?” This psychotic...
ASUC Should Condemn Bears for Palestine’s Display
Pittsburgh. Poway. Jersey City. Monsey. The list of cities afflicted by deadly antisemitic attacks is growing far too quickly. We can continue to cite facts and statistics (the near daily attacks on Jewish communities in New York, how 60% of all religious hate crimes in 2018 were classified as anti-Jewish, etc.), but the bottom...
When is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic?
Antisemitism has hopped to the forefront of the political conversation in recent years. It seemed like every interviewer of a Labour Party representative brings up antisemitism. However, these claims of antisemitism within the Labour party have been deflected and delegitimised as simply anti-Zionist arguments and criticisms of Israel. What is...