CAMERA on Campus

Protests are not an unusual sight at McGill University in Montreal. Student activism is something of a vaunted tradition at our school. But March’s Israeli Apartheid Week was not a peaceful civil rights protest. No one was hurt, as far as I know, but rhetoric can be just as damaging....

Sahar Aziz may not be a household name. Still, one cannot deny that the positions she holds both as Vice President of the Westfield Board of Education and as Professor of Law at the Rutgers University Law School come with significant responsibility — and the potential to influence many young...

Earlier this year, the University of Miami’s J Street U chapter shared an Instagram post about Masafer Yatta, a region in Area C of the West Bank under Israeli civil and military control. The group’s post promotes the narrative that the Israeli government is “carrying out a mass eviction of...

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.”...