On March 31st, Clark University, in conjunction with the Committee for Accuracy in Middle Eastern Reporting in America, CAMERA, hosted one of the Clarkies Helping and Advocating for Israel’s most successful events of the year: LGBTQA* Rights in Israel featuring Assi Azar, host of Israel’s own “Big Brother”. To an...
State of Failure at the University of Chicago
On May 14th, University of Chicago Friends of Israel (UCFI), a CAMERA-supported EMET for Israel group, hosted Dr. Jonathan Schanzer on campus. Dr. Schanzer is the vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury....
Assi Azar Speaks to Students at Augsburg College
On April 13th, the Augsburg College’s SSI (Students Supporting Israel) organization, an EMET for Israel group, hosted a CAMERA sponsored event on campus where Assi Azar spoke to an audience of around fifteen students. Assi Azar is a homosexual Israeli television personality who went public about his sexual orientation in...
Sergeant Benjamin Anthony Comes to UConn
Contributed CAMERA Fellow Ali Jabick Last month, on April 1st, Sergeant Benjamin Anthony, founder of non-for-profit non-governmental organization Our Soldier Speaks, came to speak at the University of Connecticut. He began his presentation by sharing a traumatic experience from his childhood. One day, while walking to his Jewish school, Sergeant...
Words I Never Said: Thoughts from a Recent Graduate
Contributed by Chloé Valdary, a consultant at CAMERA. This piece has been republished in the Algemeiner. To the keffiyeh-wearing, American-born university student who insists on lamenting a piece of property lost over sixty years ago: While you are excellent at competing in the apparently never-ending Oppression Olympics, (and while yours truly...
Great Success: Dumisani Washington Event at University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Contributed by CAMERA intern Emma Fruchtman More than just being the Jewish State, Israel is a vibrant country that is a center for scientific advancement, history, culture, and diversity. As such, she holds great significance for Jews and non-Jews alike. Especially now, Israel relies on a widespread support network, in...
Israel’s Quest for Peace: a presentation by Asaf Romirowsky to UW-Madison students
In America and around the world, there are many rumors and questions about what the Palestinian refugee situation really is in the Middle East. On college campuses, many students, Jewish and non Jewish, are fixated on these questions because of their obvious ties to human rights concerns. Students at the...
Kasim Hafeez at Cornell
In April, Cornellians for Israel, an EMET for Israel group at Cornell University, invited Kasim Hafeez to give a presentation about the flaws of anti-Israel radical movements, in addition to his own personal accomplishments and views. Hafeez, a Muslim-Zionist who founded “The Israel Campaign,” spoke to about 25 engaged students...
