Hundreds of supporters of CAMERA gathered last week to honor the student activists on campus, leading the fight for fair coverage of Israel. The David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Student Leadership was presented to Mustangs United for Israel (MUFI), the CAMERA-supported group at California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo. MUFI is a real...
Celebrating Israeli Independence in Florida
Last week, Israel celebrated its 69th birthday. As Israel celebrated, so did its friends all around the world – including at Florida State University, where CAMERA-supported group Noles for Israel put on a party for students. The celebration included three stations, each focusing a different city in Israel. At “Jerusalem”, students could see...
Dartmouth Dean Must Retract Support for BDS
Statement by Gilad Skolnick, Director of Campus Programming for CAMERA, on the appointment of Professor Bruce Duthu as Dean of Faculty at Dartmouth College: “CAMERA calls on Professor Duthu to publicly retract his support for the BDS campaign, and in the event that he does not do this, calls on...
Opportunities for Change at NUS
The National Union of Students (NUS) has received protracted criticism for its approach towards antisemitism. This issue reared its head once again last month, when tweets from Ali Milani, the NUS’s newly elected vice president, surfaced. From 2012 and 2013, these tweets are overtly antisemitic in nature. In one post,...
On Golda Meir’s Birthday, Her Words Ring Strikingly Relevant Today
May 3rd marked Golda Meir z”l’s birthday, the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. Born as Golda Myerson in 1898, she began her political career at the young age of 20, as a delegate from Missouri to the American Jewish Congress in the USA, and she never looked back. She was...
CSULB Jewish Students Targeted with Hateful BDS Resolution
Sometimes we have to report about the worst of anti-Israel activity. Here is a statement from Kelsey Kimmes, President of CAMERA-supported group 49ers for Israel, at California State University, Long Beach. “Today my campus disappointed me, it shamed me. Our student ASI voted to advance the most hateful, divisive, discriminatory, anti-Semitic...
1,500 Students Celebrate Israel at Emory
Often, activism for Israel consists of lectures and campaigns. But at Emory University, CAMERA-supported group Emory Students for Israel wanted to bring Israel to life, so they held an Israel fest right in the middle of campus. The festival was divided between different sections, representing different cities in Israel. One station...
Israel is 69 Years Young
Today is Israel’s 69th Yom HaAtzmaut. Israelis and friends of Israel around the world, celebrate the Independence Day of this amazing country. There is so much to celebrate about Israel’s past year. Israeli start-up Mobileye was sold to Intel for $15.3 billion, as investment in Israeli start-ups continues to pour in. Israel’s economic...