One of the greatest threats to Israel today doesn’t come in the form of rockets, bombs, or bullets. Though Israel is attacked frequently in horrific terror attacks, so too she is attacked in the worldwide media. In the modern age of easily disseminated news, Israel is vilified in all different...
Letter to the Editor: Using Salatia to foster conversation
More than one year ago, the University’s then-Chancellor Wise notified Steven Salaita that his offer of employment was not being forwarded to the Board of Trustees. Debates regarding this matter include the line between free speech and hate speech, the limits of academic freedom, flaws in the university’s hiring process, Salaita’s...
CAMERA counters mistruth
Sidney Shapiro had finished his Israel Defense Forces service just weeks before he arrived on campus at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont. “I walked into the door of the school and there is a huge poster of a kid, a Palestinian kid, in the shadow of a field box and...
The Discussion of the Nuclear Deal (or Lack Thereof)
When New York University’s campus paper, the Washington Square News, published an article on a “discussion” that was clearly one-sided on the Iran nuclear dear, CAMERA Fellow Raizy Cohen, immediately rushed to publish a counter-argument to ensure her students were receiving both sides to this discussion as originally promised. Not only...
When terror hits close to home
For the past few weeks, I’ve been glued to my phone. I check it first thing when I wake up in the morning, while I’m eating, while I’m walking down the Infinite, in class, while I’m working on problem sets, and before I go to sleep. But I’m not checking...
What can I do?
For the last few days, which have felt like years, I have been sitting and watching as Jerusalem, a city that I have called home for the last two summers, erupts in chaos. Places where I would eat schwarma, meet friends and relax have turned into places full of fear...
The First Annual Great Danes for Israel & CAMERA Leadership Banquet
CAMERA’s Emet for Israel supported group at SUNY Albany, Great Danes for Israel, held their first Annual Leadership Banquet went off with ought a hitch. With over 75 students and faculty in attendance as well as representatives from over 20 key student organizations, the banquet was extremely successful and well...
Terror Begins With Words
For the morally confused, the chasm between good and evil is best crossed by a well- constructed abstraction. Hence, the systematic murder of six million Jews becomes ‘the final solution`. Hence, the murder of innocent civilians is too often written off as “resistance“ and terrorists branded as “freedom fighters” by...