At the University of East Anglia in Norwich, Jewish students on campus have faced discrimination. In May 2021 alone, Norwich was marred by antisemitic graffiti and slurs during anti-Zionist demonstrations. Jewish students were targeted for somehow being responsible for the actions of the Israeli government, and the UEA Student’s Union...
CAMERA מכינה את הסטודנטים לקרב נגד מידע מוטעה
לפרסום מיידי ועדה לדיוק בדיווח וניתוח במזרח התיכון CAMERA מכינה את הסטודנטים לקרב נגד מידע מוטעה בוסטון, 4 באוגוסט, 2022 – לראשונה מזה שנתיים, סטודנטים מאוניברסיטאות ברחבי ארצות הברית, קנדה, בריטניה וישראל התכנסו בבוסטון, מסצ’וסטס, לכנס המנהיגות הבינלאומי ה-12 של CAMERA (ISLC). כנס אינטנסיבי בן ארבעה ימים עמוס בהדרכות, תדרוכים...
Press Release: CAMERA Prepares Students For The Fierce Battle Against Misinformation
BOSTON, August 4th, 2022 – For the first time in two years, students from universities across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Israel gathered in Boston, Massachusetts, for CAMERA’s 12th Annual International Student Leadership Conference (ISLC). An intensive four-day conference packed with trainings, exclusive briefings, and team-building exercises,...
Abraham Accords: Time to Change the Conversation on Campus
In 2020, the world witnessed the signing of the Abraham Accords. This agreement normalized relations between Israel and four Arab states: Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and later that year, Morocco and Sudan. In May 2022, I hosted Yoni Michanie, a researcher and lecturer at Northeastern University’s Department of Political Science,...
Why a Definition of Antisemitism Matters on College Campuses
With antisemitism on the rise, the need to adopt a universal definition of antisemitism is more crucial than ever. The IHRA definition of antisemitism has been adopted by 34 countries, various influential organisations such as the European Union’s Parliament, and numerous universities such as Cambridge University. In the United Kingdom...
BDS and the refusal to see antisemitism in UK Palestinian Societies
Earlier this term, KCL Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) co-hosted an event with 17 other Palestinian student societies across the UK featuring the co-founder of the anti-Israeli Boycott Sanction and Divest (BDS) campaign, Omar Barghouti. Barghouti co-founded the campaign in 2005. While BDS officially claims to oppose “anti-Jewish racism”, the...
Ben-Gurion University: A Campus Divided
As tensions rise all over Israel regarding the recent Nakba day protests and the death of Al- Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, Ben Gurion University is not immune to this turmoil. Students at Ben Gurion University were divided, on one side a sea of blue and white, and on the...
The human cost of enabling the incitement of violence
Over the past couple of months, close to a dozen innocent Israeli citizens- Jewish and non-Jewish alike- had their lives taken from them too soon, at the hands of terrorists. Most recently, on May 5th, Yom Haatzmaut, three people were killed and four were injured in a terror attack in...
