Last week, our International Campus Director, Aviva Slomich, was quoted in a Jerusalem Post article about Hillel President Eric Fingerhut’s announcement that he would not speak at the annual J Street Conference. Check out Aviva’s excerpt below, and read the full article here.
Divestment Loses at Northeastern University
On Monday, March 16, students piled into Northeastern University’s Hillel to meet and discuss the upcoming BDS vote in NU’s student government. The meeting opened with the director of Hillel, Arinne Braverman, offering words of encouragement for the outcome of the vote. Students, as well as community professionals from CAMERA, Combined Jewish...
Divest from the PA Campaign at UNO
Our Emet for Israel group at the University of New Orleans, Allies of Israel, has launched a petition and poster campaign to tell students about corruption in the Palestinian Authority. Chloe Valdary, the president of the organization and a consultant for CAMERA, posted on her Facebook about the campaign on the...
Our New Emet Group Publishes: The Apartheid Myth
This piece was contributed by our Emet for Israel Liaison at the University of Windsor, Trevor Sher. It was originally published in the Times of Israel, and is reproduced in full below. As Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) sweeps university campuses across Canada, well-intentioned students who want to make a positive...
CAMERA Fellow Published in the Concordian
This piece was contributed by Concordia University CAMERA Fellow Bradley Martin. It was published in the Concordian and the Link. It is reproduced in full below. A number of students at Concordia University seek to accuse Israel of being an “apartheid state.” The aims of Israeli Apartheid Week are to bolster opposition towards...
Hunter Zionist Alliance Taking A Strong Pro-Israel Stance on Campus Through Informative Events
This semester, CAMERA Fellow Jacob Kessler and CCAP Representative Rina Schiller teamed up with The Hunter Zionist Alliance to host multiple successful pro-Israel events at Hunter College. On October 20th, the student group invited Anat Berko, author of The Smarter Bomb: Women and Children as Suicide Bombers, to speak and show a thought...
CAMERA Fellow Brings Muslim Zionist to Northeastern
On February 22, 30 students gathered at Northeastern University to listen to Kasim Hafeez, a former Islamist radical from Pakistan, discuss how he became a die-hard Zionist. Allison Moldoff, a CAMERA Fellow at Simmons College in Boston, “wanted students to learn about Kasim’s story and develop a better understanding of Anti-Semitism in the...
Roses and Dinner: Israeli Cooking with Love
On February 11, our Emet for Israel group at Laurentian University, LUJSA, hosted an event called Roses and Dinner: Israeli Cooking with Love, as a pre-Valentine’s Day celebration of Israeli food, culture, chocolate and fun. The students organized bread-baking, shakshuka making, and had background information on each piece of the meal. The...