San Francisco State University’s Kayla Wold helped to organize an event on May 15, 2014 with the goal of highlighting the Israel narrative to a particularly anti-Israel community. The event “Less Hamas, More Hummus” brought in around 30 students from a vast variety of backgrounds together to hear from Avi...
Letter to the Editor: Why the ASA Boycott is Wrong
The following piece is by CAMERA Fellow Lauren Barney. Lauren Barney is a Chinese and Political Science double major and junior at the University of Pittsburgh. Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article “Boycott Sparks Debate on Role of Academic Group” published Jan. 13, 2014. As a student at Pitt who has visited the Middle East...
Judea Pearl Meets with CAMERA
In January, CAMERA’s Campus Coordinators Samantha Mandeles and Gilad Skolnick met with our CCAP group at UCLA, Bruins for Israel, and with Judea Pearl, as seen in the picture below. Professor Pearl expressed his concerns regarding the prevalence of inaccurate information regarding Israel on the university campus and the effort by...
The Mainstream Assault on Journalistic Integrity
This article was written by CAMERA Fellow Elliott Hamilton, from Pitzer College. This piece was originally published in the Times of Israel. Let me refer to a moment when the press displayed journalistic integrity: November 22, 1963. Three shots ring out in Dallas, Texas. The target: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of...
Thank You, CAMERA
The following is a testimonial letter by our 2013-2014 Fellow César Domingo: First of all, thank you for the edits on my papers. I know it’s a tedious work and you both took the time to go over every single letter to make sure everything was written right. But the...
We Unequivocally Condemn the Heinous Murder of Mohammad Abu Khdeir
Although it goes without saying that we condemn the horrific murder of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, we all need to stand up and say it nonetheless. Mohammad’s crime was being an Arab, an Arab too accessible to extremists. We join the voices of others seeking peace, the voices of Israelis, of Jews, and of...
“I Am Kidnapped”
For eighteen days an entire nation waited with bated breath, eyes and ears transfixed onto televisions and radios hoping to hear of any new developments. Security forces had been working non-stop for weeks in one of the most comprehensive searches the country had ever witnessed, in order to locate Gilad,...
CAMERA Leadership and Advocacy Mission to Israel: Day One
This past week, CAMERA students from around the United States, Canada and Uruguay gathered for CAMERA’s annual Student Leadership and Advocacy Training Mission in Israel. The trip’s goal is to teach students to accurately and affectively spread their messages about Israel. The students on the trip include CCAP activists, CAMERA Fellows, and Israel campus...