Campuses across the US recently held Yom Haatzmaut and Israel Peace Week Celebrations to celebrate Israel’s 65th Birthday and Israel’s love for peace. Sun Devils for Israel, a CCAP group at Arizona State University, put on a full week’s worth of events (below), including this incredible giant chalk board. Read...
Middle East Analyst Asaf Romirowsy Speaks at Alabama State University
Dr. Romirowsky was also invited this semester by Abir Gitlin to speak at the University of Miami, and spoke at the CAMERA sponsored Florida Loves Israel conference. He touches on many issues such as Palestinian refugee myths and double standards in the UN.
This year’s David Bar-Illan Award winners
On Sunday, CAMERA held its annual dinner in New York City, in which hundreds of supporters attended from across the country, and honored Khaled Abu Toameh, a distinguished Israeli-Arab journalist, lecturer, and documentary filmmaker. Congratulations to Ellie Rudee on receiving the David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Student Leadership and Yoni Kaplan...
Florida Loves Israel Conference
The annual Florida Loves Israel Conference (FLI) that took place from April 12th to 14th, of which CAMERA was a sponsor, was a great success with a turnout of well over 100 students. Starting with the first annual FLI conference last year at Florida State University, pro-Israel students from all over the...
Berkeley student Senate passes divestment resolution
Last week the U.C. Berkeley student senate passed a resolution calling for Divestment from Israel. Debating lasted for 10 hours, with the resolution narrowly passing at 11-9. Read more about this incident and what you can do to help on unitedwithisrael.org. Why hasn’t there been a single resolution for divesting...
Victories against BDS at Manitoba & UC Riverside
CUNY vice chancellor and general counsel issued a report (full report here) on Brooklyn College and its expulsion of students and journalists from the anti-Israel BDS (more about BDS here) event that had been co-sponsored by the Brooklyn College Political Science Department. The report finds that the “administration did not handle this event...
Scenes from our workshop @ Brooklyn College
On April 4th CAMERA was invited to Brooklyn College to work with students on how to recognize bias in the media, compose strong letters to the editor, and on how to go about responding to inaccurate op-eds and articles about Israel. About 20 enthusiastic students attended this event. Ask us...
ASU Screening of UNMASKED: Judeophobia
On March 6th, 2013, Alabama State University CAMERA Fellow, Rita Usher, organized a screening of the documentary film Unmasked: Judeophobia on her campus. Approximately 40 students attended. According to Rita, many of the student guests made connections between the struggle against antisemitism and the historical struggle against racism in the United States....
