CAMERA on Campus

In a giant concert hall with roughly 600 students and community members in attendance, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst hosted an event this fall titled “Criminalizing Dissent.” Its panelists included activist and founder of the BDS movement Omar Barghouti (who addressed the crowd via Skype, as he was denied entrance to...

True to its chameleonic nature, antisemitism on campus is constantly changing colors. Some of the earliest documented campus antisemitism occurred during the early to mid-20th century, when American universities were faced with a large influx of Jewish students who emigrated from Europe. Back then, campus antisemitism manifested itself in the...

You’d be mistaken if you were under the impression that “Pinkwashing” describes the sort of accident that might happen when mixing the wrong items in the laundry. This term, in fact, describes Israel’s alleged, contrived strategy to conceal ongoing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind a false image of progress...

If someone were to ask me what I believe is one of the most common misconceptions about Israel, it would unequivocally be homogeneity. Anti-Israel advocates on college campuses push this narrative because they argue Israel is an ethnic state of white Jewish Europeans who suppress the rights of any other...

One year after UCLA hosted the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) conference, Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at UCLA has focused on remedying the damage caused by the former’s denouncing of Jewish self-determination in the name of Palestinian liberation through hosting Israeli-Arab peace activist Yoseph Haddad on campus. Haddad’s...

It’s no secret that widespread anti-Israel bigotry has infected college campuses around the world. And it seems that this toxicity will once again rear its head in Ann Arbor, Mich. From Jan. 25-26, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) is slated to co-host the “2020 Youth for Palestine Conference” on the University of Michigan’s campus....

The Middle East is one of the most complex and dynamic sectors on the planet. Almost daily, violent conflicts, regime changes, uprisings, terrorist attacks and foreign military campaigns pervade this region that boasts rich cultures and history. For those professionally engaged in global affairs, a well-rounded education about the Middle...

Photo: Sonia Ionescu/Flickr “The university campus scene has become a horror movie for Jewish students in North America, who are being harassed verbally and physically on a daily basis,” explained Dan Diker, former Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress, who currently works as Director of the Political Warfare Project...