This November, CAMERA on Campus observed Mizrahi Heritage Month through the latest iteration of our Mizrahi Stories campaign, a collaborative effort with partners JIMENA, The American Sephardic Federation, Sephardic Community Alliance, SAMI (Sephardic American Mizrahi Initiative), and Harif. The campaign included participants from the United States, Canada, Israel, and the...
Delegitimizing Israel and Supporting Terrorism at Tel Aviv University
On the morning of October 27th, the Hadash and Balad chapters at Tel-Aviv University held a protest in support of the Lion’s Den terrorist group, recently apprehended in Nablus. This Palestinian militant group has been responsible for the recent shooting attacks in Israel and, after emerging in August of 2022,...
‘Wellesley News’ Endorses The Mapping Project: The Fragmentation of Journalistic Integrity
Following sharp criticism from concerned community members, Wellesley College’s student newspaper Wellesley News claims to have reversed its endorsement of The Mapping Project, but the paper has little to show for its alleged disavowal. As of November 22nd, 2022, Wellesley News continues to feature an editorial penned by the paper’s...
A flailing assault on Israel by the Case Western Reserve University student government
A recent Case Western Reserve University Observer editorial accuses the university’s President Eric Kaler of promoting “falsity” and being “misinformed” about the BDS resolution recently adopted by the Undergraduate Student Government (USG). We agree that facts must be central to any discussion of the resolution and the conflict in general. This is why...
Why does CUNY’s Leadership Pretend that Jewish Students Don’t Face Discrimination on Campus?
Would you appoint an arsonist as fire chief? Well, That is precisely what City University of New York (CUNY) – the city’s publicly run university system with 243,000 students spread over 25 campuses – did when they hired a former employee of the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to lead...
Mizrahi Heritage Month: An untold story
The satisfying crunch of a piece of tadig at Friday night Shabbat dinner; the sweet aroma of a freshly brewed cup of cardamom tea; the melodic, flowy notes of a traditional Persian song. These are likely not the sights, smells, and sounds that come to mind when asked about Judaism....
“Martyr” vs. Murderer: Ohio State SJP’s Appalling Veneration of Terrorists
The word “martyr” often conjures up images of historical figures such as Martin Luther King Jr, Abraham Lincoln, and others killed in their fight for the greater good. However, according to recent behavior by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the Ohio State University (OSU), such individuals belong in...
At Oberlin, Jewish Studies Professors Are Part of the Problem
Oberlin College has a long-standing antisemitism and anti-Zionism problem that has been previously documented on CAMERA’s In Focus blog, and elsewhere as well. The school’s President, Carmen Twillie Ambar, has long sought to hide the school’s problem behind its Jewish Studies program and kosher dining facilities. In 2018, after an...
