Anti-Semitism is on the rise at college campuses. From January to June 2016, 287 anti-Semitic incidents occurred on 64 campuses, an increase of 45% since the year before. Unfortunately, Stanford is no exception to this ugly trend. In Spring 2016, during an ASSU meeting, Senator Gabriel Knight spoke of “Jews controlling...
I am a Zionist.
I’m afraid to say it out loud sometimes because it’s become a bad word of late. I believe in Israel’s right to exist and its necessity. I put great faith in the Jewish right to self-determination and have a deep love for the State of Israel. This makes me a...
Israel, You Have a Baseball Team!
While Israel has had some notable sporting achievements in the past year, the words “Israel” and “baseball” do not naturally seem to go together. But all that is changing, as Israel, the lowest ranked team at the 2017 World Baseball Classic, have turned heads with two incredible wins in their opening...
The Guardian Whitewashes Charges of Antisemitism Against Malia Bouattia
An article in the Guardian, written by their education correspondent Sally Weale, focused on recent reports of hate crimes targeting Jews at Exeter, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sussex and University College London. Among the people interviewed in the article (UK universities urged to a tackle rising tide of antisemitism, Feb. 18th) was NUS President Malia Bouattia....
The Dangers of Divestment
Less than one year after USG voted down OSU Divest’s attempt to divest from Israel, the group has yet again pushed the issue onto the ballot. They claim the sole purpose of this bill is to fight for social justice, and to create financial neutrality by preventing OSU from using...
Palestinians are Hurt by BDS
“All the people who wanted to close SodaStream’s West Bank factory are mistaken… They didn’t take into consideration the families,” Ali Jafar, a Palestinian SodaStream employee stated back in 2015. He had been working at the Israeli company’s West Bank factory which produced home carbonation drink machines for two years before it...
Overcoming Disability to Serve in the IDF
Many Americans have served in the IDF, making an important contribution to Israel’s security. Even though every soldier has a story, the story of Izzy Ezagui is especially inspiring, and CAMERA-supported group Realize Israel hosted Izzy at New York University last month and heard his story first hand. Izzy was...
Will the Anti-Israel Bias at the UN End?
The United Nations is often guilty of a clear anti-Israel bias. There are countless examples of this: This past December, at one General Assembly Session, 20 resolutions condemning Israel were passed, with six resolutions condemning all the countries in the rest of the world combined. Some of those 20 resolutions had...