Next year, Massachusetts taxpayers will pay almost $370 million to support the operations of UMASS Amherst, the flagship school of the UMASS system. Massachusetts families who send their children to the school have to shell out nearly $30,000 a year to cover tuition and room and board. That’s $120,000 for...
Statement on Event at University of Toronto Featuring PFLP Associate Issam al-Yamani
Known Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) associate Issam al-Yamani is scheduled to participate in an event at the University of Toronto on September 9th, 2019. In anticipation of the event, CAMERA’s campus advisor and online editor Zac Schildcrout made the following statement: “It is deeply concerning and,...
At Summer Conference, Pro-Israel Students Learn Tools to Respond to Hostile Campus Environment
Universities have long been one of the toughest environments for pro-Israel students. They have battled stilted curriculums when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more recently, grappled with on-campus pressure in the face of growing BDS activity. Combined with a general uptick in anti-Semitism, including the deadly shootings in...
Enshrined Anti-Zionism at San Francisco State University and Many US Campuses
Recently, as reported by The Algemeiner, dozens of organizations petitioned the chancellor of the California State University system in response to San Francisco State University (SFSU) professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s use of the university’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies (AMED) Facebook page to spread antisemitic propaganda. This concern is more than justified. As the...
How we got Here: The Normalization of Antisemitism
It used to be that the stench of antisemitism rotted the credibility of any person, institution or political party. A leprosy that was visible for all to see and avoided like the plague has become a badge of honor that is encompassed in all aspects of British society. As painful...
With Rise in Campus Antisemitism, CAMERA Conference to Train Student Activists
Boston, MA, July 24, 2019 – Students from more than 80 campuses will be in Boston from August 12-15 for a high-level training conference on how to respond to the upsurge in campus antisemitism and anti-Israel activism. The campus department for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and...
IfNotNow Proves Its Anti-Israel Bona Fides
Amid the recent eviction of a Palestinian family from the neighborhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem, the radical left-wing organization IfNotNow pleaded with their community through Twitter to “…stand against the Judaization of East Jerusalem.” Ignoring the particular history and presence of the Jewish people in that region, IfNotNow subconsciously invoked a term...
Middle East Studies at UT-Austin: Biased Professors, Politicized Classrooms
Contributed by Islamist Watch Writing Fellow for the Middle East Forum Benjamin Baird and director of academic affairs and director of Campus Watch at the Middle East Forum Winfield Myers. The University of Texas at Austin (UT) boasts a large and, at first glance, thriving Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
