CAMERA on Campus

The UC Davis Cross Cultural Center (CCC) is committed to the idealistic goal of building a just and liberated world. The building provides a space for many unique communities to pursue advocacy, identity exploration, and — most importantly — cultural competency. Despite its genuinely good goal, the Cross Cultural Center has...

In recent years, Zionism has unjustly been given a reputation that contradicts the reality of the movement. Those who oppose Zionism have tried to paint the movement as a band of right-wing colonialists. In reality, Zionists are simply those who believe that the Jewish people have a right to self-determination...

“Zionist Occupation is the Virus.” No, that hashtag wasn’t shared by the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip or by an Iranian state mouthpiece. White supremacist and antisemite David Duke didn’t share it. Nor was it shared by Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, who has...

This year’s Palestinian Prisoners Day (PPD) took place on April 17. Every year, activists use this occasion in an attempt to draw international attention to the hundreds of Palestinians arrested and detained annually by Israel in the West Bank. Yet much of this campaign is dominated by blatant inaccuracies and...

In February, the Endowment Justice Collective (EJC) at Rutgers University, made up of student groups and community partners, petitioned the university’s Joint Committee on Investments (JCOI) to engage in broad ethical divestment from the military-industrial complex, prison industrial complex, fossil fuel industry, sweatshops, and “Israeli apartheid.” The petition portrays Israel as an oppressive regime,...

Photo: Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons For many around the world, the coronavirus pandemic is understandably cause for grave concern. But while some worry about what COVID-19 could do to their community, others appear more interested in what it might do for their cause. These dogmatic activists look to seize on the scare by, essentially,...

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...