Contributed by CAMERA Intern Josh Arons: The anti-Israel, boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement has infiltrated numerous state universities in California and has spread untruthful propaganda about the State of Israel. Unfortunately, the anti-Israel movement’s scare tactics worked by persuading student government associations at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and UC Irvine...
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While interning for CAMERA, high-school senior Rebecca Pritzker wrote the powerful blog piece Israel: The Modern Canary, which was republished recently in the Jewish Ledger. Former CAMERA Israel trip participant Romeu Monteiro recently wrote a piece for his school’s paper, which was also picked up by The Algemeiner: Israeli Inspiration, Portuguese Citizenship. ...
Cougars Go to Israel
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Leeron Ofer: This past week, the College of Charleston, Kent State University, Cleveland State, Case Western and Skidmore joined together for a Taglit-Birthright trip in Israel. A few weeks before the trip I spoke to a few of the students going from the College of Charleston...
Gaza Kids Play “Kidnap Israeli Soldier”
This year Gaza kids play ‘kidnap Israeli soldier‘ in summer camps. This is an example of indoctrinating children to hate, as well as training child soldiers, a war crime. Run by Islamic Jihad, thousands of children between the ages of six and 16 are expected to take part in their summer camp....
Falsely Reported Boycotts
Today, Agence France-Presse falsely reported that rock star Lenny Kravitz had canceled a planned visit to Israel in support of the anti-Israel boycott movement. As CAMERA’s Tamar Sternthal writes: “In a second questionable claim, AFP also reports ‘Other [boycott] ‘successes’ include Adidas dropping its sponsorship of the Jerusalem marathon in March after pressure from the...
When it is inconvenient to boycott
Is BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions campaign) going to boycott Google now that they bought Waze for one billion dollars? BDS activists often spend their time trying to boycott Israeli grown oranges, hummus, Soda Stream and Ahava skin care products. If they want to be consistent, they should be boycotting a company...
Divestment Resolution Defeated at UC Santa Cruz
BDS at UC Santa Cruz was defeated in a majority vote, with 19 against, 17 in favor and 3 abstentions. It is yet another failed BDS campaign to add to the list in the UC system. Emily Hochberg writes in the Israel Actions Network blog “This is the latest in a...
Dealing with a Pro-Palestinian activist? Are you sure?
How do you know if you are dealing with a true Pro-Palestinian activist on your campus? Have they spoken up loudly against the dictatorship in the Gaza Strip under Hamas or in the West Bank under Fatah? Abu Mazen canceled elections four years ago and has since served as an...