CAMERA on Campus

Photo: Claudia Gabriela Marques Vieira/Wikimedia Commons In my time as the Israel and campaigns officer on the board of the University of Nottingham Jewish Society, I set out with a simple goal: to foster positive and constructive conversation about Israel. My aim was to present as much information to my...

The anti-Jewish bigotry that characterizes the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has become even more apparent as BDS leaders and members seize upon the Covid-19 pandemic to fuel anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism with libels against Jews and the Jewish state. Statements by BDS leaders have ranged from accusing Israel of...

Photo: US Embassy Jerusalem/Flickr Africans for Peace is an organization made up of student activists, many South African, who have experienced apartheid and adversity in their own countries and strive to make a difference in others. Their goal is to provide “an African lens to the global debate on peace...

Photo: Jeffrey Beall/Flickr Last November, a few members of the Occidental (Oxy) College football team posed for a picture with an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) flag, sharing it on their personal Instagram feeds. The pictures were captioned “@oxyfootball stands in solidarity with our Israeli brothers in their fights against terror @IDF” and...

Photo: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 A global pandemic can teach us a lot about the priorities of a government. Take the Palestinian Authority. Even with the outbreak of COVID-19, the P.A. continues to prioritize payments to convicted terrorists and their families over the distribution of salaries to teachers and social-welfare recipients. Last...

During a seminar in my graduate program in Israel, a professor concluded a lecture on terrorism and political violence claiming: “The tears of a grieving Palestinian mother, whose son was responsible for carrying out a suicide attack are equal to the tears of an Israeli mother whose son fell in...

Photo: israaid.org On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake rocked the foundations of Haiti. Within 24 hours of the disaster, a team of 220 medical personnel and rescuers from Israel had traveled thousands of miles to provide assistance. Over the next five years, as other countries came and left, the tiny...

Photo source: IfNotNow on Facebook The trope that Jews (or in this convenient case, the Jewish state) are the cause of another people’s suffering is not a new one. In fact, New York Times author Bari Weiss has traced it back to the time of Jesus’ crucifixion in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, and explains:...