Photo: National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office/Wikimedia Commons November was Mizrahi Heritage Month. In honor of this, the John Jay Hillel, Students Without Borders, International Criminal Justice Club, and the Student Council partnered together with CAMERA on Campus to host a screening of the documentary The Forgotten Refugees. There were...
How Antisemites Hijack Progressive Causes on Campus
Photo: William Stadtwald Demchick/Wikimedia Commons This year the world is changing, and great calls for social and political reform have been heard everywhere. After the murder of George Floyd, the strongest calls were for equality for the Black community, inspiring many other groups to join the fight. Unfortunately, some have...
Ohio State University’s ‘Day of Action’ Leads to Anger, Lies, and Misinformation
Photo: Robert Chriss/Wikimedia Commons During an October 27 Ohio State University (OSU) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) event, facts became irrelevant. And the dozen-or-so students in attendance became a dozen-or-so more casualties of rage politics, a psycholinguistic maneuver seen throughout history to rally crowds of people into a state of anger...
Susan Abulhawa speaks at UCL
Photo: Diliff/Wikimedia Commons On October 20, UCL Friends of Palestine and UCL Arab & North African Society hosted a discussion titled “A Palestinian Tale: The Story Behind the Statistics” with Palestinian political activist and novelist Susan Abulhawa. As a strong supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, she cannot...
Why American Public Universities Should Hesitate To Give Terror a Platform
Photo: Orin Zebest/Wikimedia Commons When it comes to sponsors of terrorism, the last place you might expect to find one would be an American public university. The American Jewish community was shocked this past September, when the San Francisco State University (SFSU) Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies program,...
Students for Justice in Palestine Rewrites and Distorts Jewish and Israeli History
Over the summer, Duke University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter published erroneous claims about the nature of Zionism in one of its Instagram posts. According to the ADL, Zionism is “the Jewish national movement of self-determination in the land of Israel — the historical birthplace and biblical homeland of the...
#MizrahiStories with Itamar Marcus
Photo: Govorkov/Wikimedia Commons This November CAMERA on Campus launched the #MizrahiStories campaign to celebrate, commemorate and educate on the experiences of Jewish communities settled in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia since Biblical times. In Hebrew, these groups are labelled as Mizrahim, literally: Jews of the East, though indeed technically speaking...
How Anti-Zionists Manipulate Mizrahi Narratives
Photo: Govorkov/Wikimedia Commons This past November was Mizrahi heritage month, a time to recognize and uplift the narratives of Mizrahi Jews across the globe. The acknowledgement of Mizrahi history has grown in popularity in the United States, particularly after Israel passed a law in 2014 that designated November 30 as a...