In America and around the world, there are many rumors and questions about what the Palestinian refugee situation really is in the Middle East. On college campuses, many students, Jewish and non Jewish, are fixated on these questions because of their obvious ties to human rights concerns. Students at the...
Kasim Hafeez at Cornell
In April, Cornellians for Israel, an EMET for Israel group at Cornell University, invited Kasim Hafeez to give a presentation about the flaws of anti-Israel radical movements, in addition to his own personal accomplishments and views. Hafeez, a Muslim-Zionist who founded “The Israel Campaign,” spoke to about 25 engaged students...
Behind the Scenes of Declare Your Freedom
Contributed by CAMERA intern Aaron Hunt Three years ago, two college freshmen, Maor Shapira, an Israeli Jew and former lone soldier in the IDF, and Chloé Simone Valdary, a Christian African-American who grew up in New Orleans, met at a pro-Israel lecture at Tulane University. They talked after the lecture...
Princeton Votes on Divestment from Israel
Contributed by CAMERA intern Sarah Salinger Many students at universities around the country have begun to take initiatives to divest from Israel. Most of these institutions are located on the west coast, including eight universities in California alone, but the trend is making its way across the country. The latest...
Israel Public Affairs Committee at Harvard Hosts Ishmael Khaldi and Assi Azar
This past semester, the newly formed Israel Public Affairs Committee at Harvard (IPACH), a CAMERA-supported EMET for Israel group, hosted its first two events. In February, it invited Ishmael Khaldi, a Muslim Bedouin citizen of Israel and official in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to speak on campus. Khaldi...
Let My People Go
Contributed by CAMERA intern Chaiel Schaffel. This piece has been republished by JNS.org. “This year we are slaves, next year may we be free men.” The ending line of the Passover Haggadah is a powerful director. Like a sea creature to water, we tend not to think about our freedom,...
CAMERA Brings Kasim Hafeez to Clark University
Contributed by CAMERA intern Emma Fruchtman. This semester, 23 Clark University students gathered to hear Kasim Hafeez describe how he became a proud Zionist. Having grown up surrounded by anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments in his small Pakistani Muslim community, having been raised by his staunchly pro-Hitler father, and having participated...
Anti-Semitism is Everywhere but Belongs Nowhere
Contributed by CAMERA Fellow Ali Jabick. Ali is the Fellow at the University of Connecticut. This piece was originally published in The Daily Campus on April 6th, 2015. I recently spoke to my friend who is currently studying abroad in London about her experiences. Due to anti-Semitic sentiment and violent attacks in Europe, she...
