Due to global coronavirus pandemic, this year’s CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis) student conference was held via Zoom, teaching students how to effectively combat anti-Israel and biased propaganda on college campuses and online. Unable to attend the typical five-day, in-person training session in Boston, more...
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine – Noura Erakat Misrepresents History
Photo: Israel Government Press Office/Wikimedia Commons Noura Erakat, assistant professor at George Mason University, claims in her new book “Justice for Some: The Question of Palestine,” that international law operates under the settler-colonial framework, and as a result has historically favored the State of Israel. According to Erakat: International law...
Contagion of Scapegoating Spreads From Higher Education Into the Streets
Photo: Dexter Van Zile/Times of Israel Any hope that the ongoing campaign to isolate Jews from mainstream society in the United States was going to slow down as a result of campus shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was shattered in Boston on the first day of July. That’s when...
Anti-Israel Animus Has Run Amok Among Young Americans
Anti-Israel activists came out in droves across the United States and Canada in early July. Why? Ostensibly, to protest the prospect of Israeli “annexation” — or, more accurately, the potential application of Israeli sovereignty to certain areas over the Green Line (which has yet to occur). Of course, chants of “Death to Israel”...
Elon Student Project Offered Skewed Narrative of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Every year, Elon University celebrates the academic achievements of its students by highlighting some of the undergraduate research that has been painstakingly gathered, organized, and presented to its professors and student body. However, this year, the content of one project took me aback. The research offered by one student, a...
An Academic Attempt to Frame Israel as a Devious Colonial Enterprise
Photo: Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons “Educator” Nimrod Evron and groups including King’s College London Action Palestine hosted a virtual discussion on Ethiopian Jews in Israel on July 5 to frame their experience as part of a “global struggle against racial injustice” recently publicized by the Black Lives Matter movement. The key speaker...
Bias and Bigotry on the Syracuse University Campus
What appeared to be a noble effort to discuss bias at Syracuse University ironically turned into a vicious exercise in bias and bigotry as the conversations turned into an antisemitic witch hunt. A few students recently created multiple Instagram pages, inviting fellow students and faculty to post stories about incidents...
‘Bless His Memory, Don’t Taint It’
In the wake of the tragic murder of George Floyd, ample debate has dominated the public square in the United States, as well as around the world. The horrific crime has brought an age-old question to the forefront: Have we achieved racial equality as a society? If not, how can we?...
