A number of weeks ago, Cambridge University’s Middle East and North Africa Forum, of which I am a founder and co-president, had the pleasure of hosting Mark Regev, Israel’s ambassador to the UK. The event was a fantastic success. Unfortunately, the fact an Israel-related event on a UK campus took...
CAMERA Fellows in Focus: Leora Eisenberg
The CAMERA Fellowship program supports student leaders in developing and strengthening their pro-Israel activism on campus. With the school year underway, InFocus is giving you an inside look into the lives of the 2016-17 CAMERA Fellows who are working hard to promote the facts about Israel on campus. Meet Leora...
Virginia Tech Remembers the Munich Massacre
Family members of the Munich Massacre victims have been asking and campaigning for a better effort in terms of public recognition for those who were killed. It became a larger deal when the IOC faced backlash for refusing to hold a moment of silence, marking the 10-year anniversary of the...
Arab Israeli Speaker Encourages Integration
“If we are courageous enough, we can work together,” said Jonathan Elkhoury, a member of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) brought to campus on Tuesday by Judges for Israel, an Israeli education and culture group, and co-sponsored by StandWithUs and the Zionist Organization of...
The Dream of Shimon Peres
“For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic” “Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.” On September 28, the international community came together in suffering the tremendous loss of Shimon Peres, the former President and two-time Prime Minister...
Neo Nazi Publication “Your Ward News” appears at York University; Administration Promises Action
Students from the Israeli Students Association (ISA), a CAMERA-supported group, recently discovered copies of the virulently anti-Semitic Your Ward News being distributed on official newsstands throughout York University. The publication was found in highly-frequented areas on campus such as Central Square. Your Ward News is a neo-Nazi publication that has been...
Why Did Oberlin Professors Go to Bat for an Anti-Semitic Colleague?
After a long investigation held largely behind locked doors, Oberlin College has finally fired Joy Karega, an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition who moonlighted on social media as a hardcore anti-Semite. The Board of Trustees accused Karega inter aliaof “failing to meet the academic standards that Oberlin requires of its...
LGBT Rights in Israel and Jonathan Elkhoury
On November 2, 2016, Jonathan Elkhoury, a Gay, Christian, Lebanese man with a powerful story, came to Clark University. Jonathan’s visit was sponsored by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) and it was co-sponsored by Clark University Hillel’s Israel and Zionism Committee and Clark University’s...