Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rachel Wolf: On February 24, 2013 a group of American University students, along with various Washington, DC activists, gathered in front of the local Best Buy to protest SodaStream, an Israeli company that produces an at home carbonation system. These protesters, led by Students for Justice in...
BDS event at Brooklyn College in detail
In addition to dealing with hostile anti Israel students, Brooklyn College’s Israel group, a CCAP (CAMERA Supported) group, has had a challenging second semester dealing with their college administration. In February the Brooklyn College political science department co-sponsored an event devoted to BDS. Some pro-Israel students at the event were expelled...
Honoring Carter
Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School honored former President Jimmy Carter on April 10th 2013. Carter has spread inaccurate information about Israel and the Middle East. Read Jesse Shore’s latest piece on the issue here. A CAMERA monograph, Bearing False Witness, details the falsehoods and errors about Israel by former US...
Is Mahmoud Abbas really a moderate?
Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), is often painted as a moderate by the media. But is he really a moderate? On May 1st 2013, a top PA official said that “resistance in all of its forms,” against Israel is still on the agenda, on a popular TV channel....
IDF officers visit University of Georgia
On April 18th, University of Georgia CAMERA Fellow, Michael Minnen, hosted an event featuring the organization Our Soldiers Speak. With help from UGA Chabad and UGA Hillel, Michael arranged for Sgt. Benjamin Anthony and Major Jonathan Conricus to visit the campus to speak to students and community about the Israel...
Israelfest at Queens College draws over 300 students
Over 300 students attended Queens College Israelfest, a celebration for Israel and her independence hosted by our CAMERA supported group: Israel Student Association (ISA). The event also featured delicious food, volleyball, a rock wall, a Kotel/Western Wall where people could leave notes with their prayers and wishes, and other great activities....
Over 100 attend Israel Peace Week at Drexel
Dragon’s for Israel (DFI), Drexel’s amazing pro-Israel campus group, recently held their annual Israel Peace Week event. DFI, a CAMERA supported group, was founded by Shoshana Weiss, a former CAMERA Israel trip participant, CAMERA Fellow, and current president of DFI. The group now has almost 300 members on their list serve,...
Israel: A Global Innovator – Technologically and Civilly
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rebecca Pritzker: Acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking is in the news again, and this time, it is not because of a new discovery. The 71-year-old Lou Gehrig’s disease patient recently decided to boycott the Israeli Presidential Conference in order to protest against the “policy of the present...
