Contributed by CAMERA interns Sarah Salinger and Aaron Hunt. Today, the world commemorates Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. In no country is this day more poignant than in Israel, where at 10:00 AM each year, sirens wail throughout the country. Across the country, all activity stops for two minutes as Israelis...
Sign SAIPA’s Petition to Continue Suspension of Brandeis Partnership with Al-Quds
Our EMET for Israel group at Brandeis, SAIPA (Students for Accuracy about Israeli and Palestinian Affairs) is supporting university president Fred Lawrence’s decision to suspend the partnership between Brandeis University and Al Quds University. They are circulating an online petition supporting the decision, in the form of an open letter...
Laurentian Israel Group Works With PRIDE
With a little Zionist chutzpah, our Emet for Israel group at Laurentian University, LUJSA, just pulled off a unique event with the LGBTQ alliance, PRIDE. Entitled Half Off: Circumcision and Sex Toys, the Ultimate Games Night, the event was planned during PRIDE week—an entire week dedicated to celebrating and educating the...
U Chicago Student: Time to support Israel
Contributed by CAMERA’s Emet for Israel Liaison at the University of Chicago, Blake Fleisher. This article was originally published in the Hill, and is reproduced in full below. Miko Peled’s recent op-ed in the Hill, titled “Time to give Palestinians their country back,” was more rant than reason. Nowhere does he make a single...
A Double Standard for “Justice”
This piece has been republished in The Algemeiner. Jihadist fighters from ISIS are terrorizing Palestinians in the Yarmouk refugee camp outside of Damascus. Snipers are shooting people as they attempt to flee the fighting between ISIS and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Assad’s air force has indiscriminately dropped...
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CAMERA Fellows Screen Beneath the Helmet
CAMERA Fellows all over the country are screening the new film about life in the IDF, Beneath the Helmet. Elana Zelden, CAMERA Fellow at the University of Illinois, recently screened the film to 30 interested students on her campus. Then, a student who had served in the IDF spoke at...
BUZO Student Strongly Condemns Bigotry on Campus
On March 20th, the Binghamton University newspaper, the Pipe Dream, published a tremendous letter-to-the-editor by Kara Dinowitz, a student from BUZO (the CAMERA-supported Emet for Israel group at Binghamton). The letter is reproduced in full below. We’re so proud of Kara and BUZO for taking a strong stance against bigotry on campus! With the...
