We hope that you all had a great George Washington’s and/or Presidents Day! American Presidents have a long history of supporting the Jewish State, including long before Israel declared her independence. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, “not long after the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln met a Canadian Christian Zionist,...
Corruption in the Palestinian Authority
WALTHAM, MA- What does state building entail? Is it permission from a higher authority to declare yourself? Is it a line in the sand drawn by other powers? Or is it leaders ready to build a nation and a nation ready to follow suit? Students for Accuracy about Israeli and...
Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Students in Israel
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...
