CAMERA on Campus

U.S. Representative Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) is one of the latest politicians to weigh in on the debate surrounding universities’ use of federal funds. This time, University of California-Berkeley’s (UCB) Center for Middle East Studies (CMES) is in the limelight. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Lamborn chiefly urges...

This semester did not go as planned for many college students. No one expected the pandemonium that accompanied COVID-19, forcing us to learn remotely for half of the semester and causing the senior class to miss graduation and commencement. COVID-19 has been disastrous on a global scale. It has killed...

Throughout the Covid-19 ordeal there has been a silver lining: the cooperation and assistance between Israelis and Palestinians during this ordeal. Mutual cooperation has been primarily focused within the territories in Judea and Samaria; however, Israeli humanitarian and medical aid to the Gaza Strip has been consistent on a weekly...

I recently attended The Key to Justice webinar, hosted by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign on the 72nd anniversary of the Nakba, the annual commemoration of the events of Israeli Independence in 1948 which led to the forced and voluntary displacement of many Palestinians. The supposed purpose of the webinar...

Photo: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Wikimedia Commons Here in our snug little corner of the Middle East, we often cry foul about the plethora of anti-Israel injustices occurring at universities worldwide, and for good reason. These wrongdoings have been steadily rising for years, and continue to threaten Jewish and Zionist students. However,...

Last week, two new profiles appeared on Instagram, @BlackatCuse and @BIPOC.Syracuse. These pages, presumably created by Syracuse University students, invited students and faculty to post about incidents of discrimination and bias on campus to unite the student body against hatred. Unfortunately, several posts from these profiles inspired the exact opposite. A June 19...

Photo: Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Flickr In late May, CAMERA on Campus hosted then-Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev for an online event offered exclusively to students on campuses around the world. With almost two dozen student groups co-sponsoring from Canada, the US, the UK, and Israel, and students attending all the...

Parents might want to think twice about letting their kids attend UMASS Amherst in September. Maybe a gap year is a good idea, especially if their child has political beliefs that run counter to those that dominate the campus at UMASS Amherst. Why? Judging from a $27 million lawsuit being...