Students on the CAMERA Birthright bus from Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore had the unique opportunity this winter in meeting with Dr. Israel Kimhi. Hailing from the Jerusalem Institute, Dr. Kimhi is an expert on Jerusalem, speaking with our CAMERA group in Israel every June. The security barrier between Palestinian...
American Studies Association Israel Boycott is Unjust
This piece was contributed by Justin Hayet, a CAMERA Fellow, and was originally published in the Pipe Dream. Just as finals began to take full swing this past December, the American Studies Association (ASA) passed a resolution that degraded its existing integrity as well as the values embedded within American...
In Opposition to the Boycott
This piece was originally published in the Cornell Daily Sun. The author, Ben Horowitz, is a CAMERA Fellow at Cornell. It’s an unfortunate phenomenon that a growing number of those who support Palestinian independence are currently leading a hateful anti-Israel boycott, which only makes independence and peace harder to achieve. The...
Speakers Discredit SJP
This piece was contributed by CAMERA Fellow Ben Kravis, and was originally published in The Tulane Hullabaloo on January 30th. You can read the published piece here or the original piece below. Students for Justice in Palestine hosted Eran Efrati and Maya Wind, a former Israeli soldier and a critic of the...
CAMERA Visits Anteaters For Israel!
CAMERA’s Samantha Mandeles and Gilad Skolnick visit with our CCAP group at UC Irvine, Anteaters for Israel, and with CAMERA Fellow Daniel Narvey. UC Irvine recently voted against boycotting Israel: UC Irvine Opposed Proposed Boycott of Israeli Academic Institute. Anteaters for Israel has been organizing many great events about Israel...
A Realistic Approach to the Israeli-Arab Conflict
This piece was contributed by CAMERA Fellow Meyal Chernoff, a pre-med Sophomore studying anthropology and biology. This piece was first published in the Washington University Political Review. In a world where we are enamored with quick fixes, we like to see everything as black and white. But when we are...
A Stand Against Boycotts
The New York Times ran an article on a store that was created by Kenneth and Elisheva Blum, American-Born Israelis living in the Samarian town of Eli (what the international community terms the West Bank). The Blums launched Boutique Katom in 2009 in response to calls to boycott Jewish businesses in Judea...
CAMERA Visits California and Boston University
CAMERA’s campus team is all over the country. We just returned from the University of Southern California, where we met and spoke with dozens of students about the media and inaccuracies about Israel. At USC, students who had just returned from Israel, many of them for the first time, learned...