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...
Anti-Zionist revisionism sometimes starts in the classroom
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...
Isreality Tours the UK: Israeli Students Take Their Activism Abroad
From February 28th to March 5th, I flew to the United Kingdom as a delegate of “Isreality,” a student group supported by CAMERA on Campus and Nefesh Yehudi. The purpose of the delegation was to bring Israeli and UK students together and present them with tools to combat anti-Zionist propaganda,...
Who gets to talk about Israel?
Israel is an apartheid, genocidal regime and anyone who disagrees with that reading of history is a white-supremacist bigot promoting violence who should not be allowed onto campus. Sound familiar? This radical reading of history, wholly unsupported by any evidence, is the standard vitriol that many university students are exposed...
[Press Release] This is Zionism: CAMERA on Campus launches its latest campaign to combat antisemitism
BOSTON, April 17th, 2023 – On May 15th, 1948, Zionism — the political, social, religious, and cultural movement found across diaspora Jewish communities worldwide —manifested through the establishment of the State of Israel. Since its birth, Israel has fervently stood by commitments from its founders to ensure “complete equality of...
CAMERA on Campus UK Sponsors NJA Festivities: Why We Should Be Celebrating 75 Years of the State of Israel
On 26th April 2023, join the National Jewish Assembly and World Zionist Organization for a Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration in London sponsored by CAMERA on Campus UK, StandWithUs UK and El Al Airlines. Follow this link to register to attend the in-person celebration. The following op-ed was co-written by NJA Managing...
Press Release: CAMERA on Campus Hosts Conference for Students Activists in the UK & Israel
LONDON, March 8th, 2023 – On Sunday, March 6th, CAMERA on Campus held an exclusive summit with top student leaders from the University College London, King’s College London, Durham University, University of Hertfordshire, University of East Anglia, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The one-day conference covered a plethora of...
Statement: CAMERA on Campus UK Condemns Liberate KCL’s Pestilent Antisemitism
On Friday, March 3rd, 2023, “Liberate KCL”, a far-left group at the King’s College, London called for a disturbance of a discussion hosted by the KCL Israel Society featuring two members of parliament. The event titled Israel and the House of Commons: Bipartisan Q&A was to take place on campus...