CAMERA on Campus

On February 25th, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) promoted “Confronting Zionism,” an in-person event to be held at the Cleveland Park Library, a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL), on Saturday, March 5th. PYM members planned to discuss “What Zionism is, its effects at the transnational and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting & Analysis March 7th, 2022 BOSTON, March 7th, 2022 – Each spring, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) chapters, and Palestinian Societies on university campuses around the world host “Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW), a...

“Appropriation occurs when the appropriator is not aware of the deep meaning of the culture he is appropriating.” – Amanda Stenberg Cultural appropriation and dispossession have been present for many centuries in our history. More recently, discussions of heritage have focused on appropriation in the context of mainstream popular culture....

As a Jew, I am increasingly alarmed by the atmosphere at UCL, especially since both the Students’ Union and the academic board attempted to scrap the IHRA definition of antisemitism in February 2021- dismissing anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism. To read Abigail’s full-length article, follow this link. Please note:...

Commenting on the conflict in Israel and Gaza in May, the officers of the KCL Student Union issued a statement with biased, inaccurate views of what transpired. The statement sided entirely with ‘the people of Palestine’, while inaccurately reporting ‘forced evictions of families in Sheikh Jarrah and attacks on worshippers...

In December, the CUNY (City University of New York) Law Student Government Association adopted a resolution sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Jewish Law Student Association calling upon the administration to cut virtual and actual ties with Israeli academic institutions and businesses. The resolution also demonizes Jewish organizations, Israeli students...

A recent survey by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law revealed that over 70% of Jewish college students in the United States have personally experienced or were familiar with an antisemitic attack in the past 120 days. As well, the AMCHA Initiative, an organization that documents antisemitism on...

I am a Persian Jew. My family fled Iran in the midst of the Islamic revolution, a violent uprising led by Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious extremist who threatened and later ethnically cleansed Iran of its religious minorities. My family’s story is one shared by Jews in Iran and countries across...