The CAMERA Fellowship supports student leaders to develop and strengthen 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 Lily Greenberg Call. Born and raised in California,...
A Firsthand Account of Anti-Israel Violence at a UK University
Campus security officers barricaded the doors. The mob swarmed in on us. We were caged in a room at University College London (UCL). Crowds of scowling faces were pressed against the window, pointing, jeering, roaring hateful words — their cameras flashing all around us. It was like we were in a zoo....
A Nation of Hope
Imagine you’re 12 years-old, it’s a hot, summer afternoon and all you want is your favorite ice cream. You ask your mother to let you go get one from the store just a couple blocks from your house and eventually she says yes. As you’re walking the two blocks to...
Criticize David Myers’ Evaluation of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
On Sept. 20, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University brought a Board Director of the New Israel Fund, Prof. David Myers, to speak about the Arab-Israel conflict and who is responsible. Myers’ goal was to take a step back and analyze the events leading up to creation...
Letter: UCL Administration Should Hang Their Heads In Shame
This letter can also be found on Facebook. Rex Knight, Vice-Provost (Operations) UCL I was present at the event at the UCL campus when anti-Israel demonstrators attempted to no platform an Israeli speaker. I was there because I had been asked to attend. Jewish students became aware of the protest...
No ‘safe spaces’ for Jews? First hand account of hatred at Hen Mazzig event in London
A guest post by Harvey Garfield Last Thursday in London, I attended a (CAMERA sponsored) UCL Jewish Society talk given by Hen Mazzig, an Israeli activist. I was well aware that with the Palestinian Facebook reminders of his status as an ex-officer of the IDF he stood no chance of speaking...
The Truth Is On Our Side – And The UCL Protesters Know It
Somehow this will become our fault. On the evening of October 27th, London students were trapped in a room on University College London’s campus until the police deemed it safe enough to let them out. Protesters banged on the doors, jumped through the windows to get inside, tackling students on their way in,...
CAMERA Fellows in Focus: Orly Margulis
The CAMERA Fellowship 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 Orly Margulis. Orly Margulis was born and raised in...