Photo: Brent Smith/Wikimedia Commons In a world full of instability, where everything feels uncertain, we should work together to build up one another. In difficult times like these, we should rally behind principles we know to be universal truths: equality, peace and love for our fellow man. Instead, we see...
UJS presidential candidate harassed online by anti-Zionist activists
Photo: Mingkai Zhang/Wikimedia Commons In early November, CAMERA on Campus Fellow and University of Birmingham student Anthony Bolchover launched his campaign for the UK Union of Jewish Students Presidency. Among other things, Anthony’s manifesto pledged to defend Zionism and unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism on British campuses. Unfortunately, Anthony’s campaign became the...
UCU motion submitted to revoke IHRA antisemitism definition at King’s
Photo: Rob Farrow/Geograph.org.uk On the 27th November, a motion was submitted to the King’s College London branch of the University and College Union (UCU) to call for the university to revoke its adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Following the IHRA’s publication of the working definition of antisemitism in 2016,...
The Forgotten Refugees
Photo: National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office/Wikimedia Commons November was Mizrahi Heritage Month. In honor of this, the John Jay Hillel, Students Without Borders, International Criminal Justice Club, and the Student Council partnered together with CAMERA on Campus to host a screening of the documentary The Forgotten Refugees. There were...
How Antisemites Hijack Progressive Causes on Campus
Photo: William Stadtwald Demchick/Wikimedia Commons This year the world is changing, and great calls for social and political reform have been heard everywhere. After the murder of George Floyd, the strongest calls were for equality for the Black community, inspiring many other groups to join the fight. Unfortunately, some have...
Ohio State University’s ‘Day of Action’ Leads to Anger, Lies, and Misinformation
Photo: Robert Chriss/Wikimedia Commons During an October 27 Ohio State University (OSU) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) event, facts became irrelevant. And the dozen-or-so students in attendance became a dozen-or-so more casualties of rage politics, a psycholinguistic maneuver seen throughout history to rally crowds of people into a state of anger...
Susan Abulhawa speaks at UCL
Photo: Diliff/Wikimedia Commons On October 20, UCL Friends of Palestine and UCL Arab & North African Society hosted a discussion titled “A Palestinian Tale: The Story Behind the Statistics” with Palestinian political activist and novelist Susan Abulhawa. As a strong supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, she cannot...
כיצד אנטי-ציונים מנצלים את הנרטיב המזרחי
Photo: Govorkov/Wikimedia Commons נובמבר האחרון היה זמן להכיר ולהעלות למודעות את הנרטיבים של יהודים מזרחים ברחבי העולם. ההכרה בתולדות יהודי ארצות ערב גדלה בפופולריות בארצות הברית, במיוחד לאחר שישראל העבירה חוק בשנת 2014 שקבע את 30 בנובמבר ליום הכרה לאומי ב -850,000 הפליטים היהודים ממדינות ערב – שרובם מצאו מקלט...
