CAMERA on Campus

Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a self-described group of “Jews organizing toward Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism.” The organization has chapters in major cities across the country as well as on a host of college campuses, including NYU, George Washington University, and Columbia University. On April 10, JVP...

There is a troubling trend among young American Jews: more and more are turning their backs to the State of Israel and actively participating in anti-Zionist campaigns. A 2020 study by Pew Research Center, revealed that U.S. Jews under the age of 30 are less emotionally attached to Israel than...

At the City University of New York (CUNY), Antisemitism has become synonymous with the university system itself. A report published in March of 2023 by Students and Faculty for Equality at CUNY (SAFE CUNY), a group of concerned students and faculty members, exposes a disturbing pattern of insidious and normalized...

Every year, McGill University’s Jewish Studies department offers at least one seminar on Jewish life in the Islamic world. These classes are important: most people know little about Mizrahim (Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, a region often abbreviated as MENA). But in highlighting Mizrahi/Sephardi identities, some academics—sometimes...

There is a disturbing trend on college and university campuses: anytime an event on campus celebrating Jewish or Israeli identity is organized, anti-Zionist students groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) verbally abuse and publicly accosting Zionist students and guest speakers, accusing them of “ethnic cleansing,” “colonialism” and “apartheid.”...

Students for Justice in Palestine chapters around the country have recently been hosting lectures entitled “Palestine 101”. These “Palestine 101” events have occurred at Columbia University, UVA, Berkeley Law, and CUNY John Jay, to name a few institutions. With antisemitism rising around the country, it is incredibly concerning for Students...

From April 3rd to April 7th, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted their annual “Palestine Liberation Week.” also known as “Israeli Apartheid Week”. SJP is a campus group supported by the radical organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), an anti-Israel organization whose members regularly express support for Hamas, a...

From February 28th to March 5th, I flew to the United Kingdom as a delegate of “Isreality,” a student group supported by CAMERA on Campus and Nefesh Yehudi. The purpose of the delegation was to bring Israeli and UK students together and present them with tools to combat anti-Zionist propaganda,...