With antisemitism on the rise, the need to adopt a universal definition of antisemitism is more crucial than ever. The IHRA definition of antisemitism has been adopted by 34 countries, various influential organisations such as the European Union’s Parliament, and numerous universities such as Cambridge University. In the United Kingdom...
Israeli Students Are Experiencing Increased Anti-Israel Sentiment
On May 15th, 2022, CAMERA on Campus hosted an event with speaker Maurice Hirsch, Head Legal Strategist for Palestinian Media Watch at Hebrew University. As part of the event, Maurice described the historical aspects of how Arab leaders created the Palestinian narrative after 1948 that holds the Jewish state solely...
Anti-Israel Academics Attack the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism in Hate-Filled Webinar
On May 8, 2022, the Institute for Holocaust Studies, Genocide and Remembrance at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, posted a discussion on their official YouTube channel that contained unfounded allegations about the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Hosted and moderated by Alon Confino, chair of the Institute for Holocaust Studies...
BDS and the refusal to see antisemitism in UK Palestinian Societies
Earlier this term, KCL Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) co-hosted an event with 17 other Palestinian student societies across the UK featuring the co-founder of the anti-Israeli Boycott Sanction and Divest (BDS) campaign, Omar Barghouti. Barghouti co-founded the campaign in 2005. While BDS officially claims to oppose “anti-Jewish racism”, the...
If Your Activism Doesn’t Include Jews, It’s Not Activism
Oglethorpe University will always have a special place in my heart. My parents met here, and my grandfather taught here as a young psychologist. I truly consider this school as part of my heritage. However, the other vital part of my heritage is being a proud Jewish woman. At Oglethorpe,...
Ben-Gurion University: A Campus Divided
As tensions rise all over Israel regarding the recent Nakba day protests and the death of Al- Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, Ben Gurion University is not immune to this turmoil. Students at Ben Gurion University were divided, on one side a sea of blue and white, and on the...
The human cost of enabling the incitement of violence
Over the past couple of months, close to a dozen innocent Israeli citizens- Jewish and non-Jewish alike- had their lives taken from them too soon, at the hands of terrorists. Most recently, on May 5th, Yom Haatzmaut, three people were killed and four were injured in a terror attack in...
Students for Justice in Palestine’s Land Day Lies
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) constitute the most influential university branch of the anti-Israel movement. Despite their banal sloganeering and ludicrous propaganda, SJP keeps anti-Zionism in vogue with every cycle of impressionable college students eager to fight social injustice. Every so often, however, the fixture of campus activism breaks...
