Israeli advocate Sara Merson, who participated in the 2012 annual CAMERA Leadership and Advocacy Training Mission in Israel, is now living in Israel, and a current contestant in Israel’s reality singing competition, The Voice. Sara as a contestant on Israel’s The Voice. The show is now in its third season, with a Canadian born...
Artists Continue to Fall Victim to Propoganda Artists
This piece was written by CAMERA intern Seth Greenwald. The full version is available in The Times of Israel, and the link is below. As human beings, we are hardwired to be empathetic, hardwired to support the underdog and to care for those who seem to be worse off than we...
Berkeley Hosts Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration and BBQ
On May 6, 2014, Alana Corre, CAMERA Fellow at UC Berkeley, hosted an incredible Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration and BBQ. In order to celebrate Israel’s 66th year of independence, Alana made kosher meat, Israeli salad, and Sabra hummus available. Keeping with the spirit of Israel, participants also played soccer and frisbee....
Avi Jorisch at San Francisco State University
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...
