Boston, MA – August 4th, 2023 CAMERA on Campus, the campus wing of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting & Analysis, celebrates the massive success of its thirteenth annual gathering of student leaders in Boston, Massachusetts, which took place from July 28th-30th, 2023. Students traveled from across the...
2022-2023: A Year in Review
Dear friends, During the 2022-2023 academic year, our cohort of CAMERA fellows, staff, and contributors to our blog across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Israel published an astounding 73 articles in the English language, including Op-eds, letters to the editor, public statements, and press releases. I am...
Israel’s Battle Against Terrorism
Between April 2022 and April 2023, 27 Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists. These individuals were murdered going about their daily lives; walking about in Israeli cities, waiting at bus stops, working their jobs and even while enjoying a drink at a Tel Aviv bar with friends. Palestinian leaders across...
Club Z Bay Area Students Respond to anti-Israel bias in CAMERA on Campus Workshop
On May 13th, 2023, Benjamin Faershtein, Benjamin Mazo, David Hervy, Leah Krupnik, and Liran Friedman; a group of strong, and resilient middle and high school students participating in Club Z’s incredible academic-year-long program to “raise modern-day Zionists who are articulate and knowledgeable leaders,” took part in an intensive writing workshop...
CAMERA Letter: A Path Forward After A Libelous University Display
[Editor’s Note: In March, CAMERA helped expose an offensive and factually inaccurate display on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was set up on the grounds of the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). Some illustrative examples of just how poorly researched the display was: It claimed that the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the...
Francesca Albanese And The UN’s Anti-Israel Bias
On 26 April, Israel’s Independence Day, the Jewish Network for Palestine (JNP), a fringe organisation, held a Zoom lecture with Italian UN Special Rapporteur to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese. Other speakers in attendance were Israeli Professor of History at Exeter University, Ilan Pappe and SOAS Professor Nur Masalha. The JNP is linked to the anti-zionist Jewish...
UC Berkeley departments sponsor screening of misleading documentary
On Tuesday, April 26, Bears for Palestine, UC Berkeley’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, hosted a movie night featuring a 2021 documentary called “Boycott.” This documentary screening was hosted in partnership with Berkeley’s Department of Ethnic Studies and Department of Race and Gender as well as other outside organizations....
CAMERA recognizes students and alumni at 2023 gala: meet the honorees
On June 4th, 2023, Hali Spiegel, North American campus director for CAMERA, had the wonderful privilege to publicly recognize the achievements of a few, incredibly brave individuals at CAMERA’s annual gala in New York City. CAMERA’s student award, which carries the name of famed Jerusalem Post editor and pianist Bar-Illan...