Contributed by Shoshana Weiss, CAMERA’s Dragons for Israel CCAP liaison: A Hero In Heaven is a highly impactful film for university students of any kind. While focusing on the life of Michael Levin, a young man from Philadelphia who volunteered for the Israeli army, this film inspires Zionism, a deep...
Israel Amplified 2013
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rachel Wolf: On August 6, 2013 students from various Greek organizations will come together to discuss the importance of Israel activism on their respective campuses. They will meet at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City for Alpha Epsilon Pi’s annual Israel Amplified conference (co-sponsored by CAMERA)....
Ishmael Khaldi on life as a Bedouin in Israel at the University of Chicago
On April 7th, the University of Chicago’s CCAP- funded organization, Chicago Friends of Israel, hosted Ishmael Khaldi on campus. Khaldi is the first Bedouin vice consul of Israel and the first high ranking Muslim diplomat in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Khaldi delivered a lecture entitled Life as a...
Misguided SodaStream Protestors at American University
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rachel Wolf: On February 24, 2013 a group of American University students, along with various Washington, DC activists, gathered in front of the local Best Buy to protest SodaStream, an Israeli company that produces an at home carbonation system. These protesters, led by Students for Justice in...
BDS event at Brooklyn College in detail
In addition to dealing with hostile anti Israel students, Brooklyn College’s Israel group, a CCAP (CAMERA Supported) group, has had a challenging second semester dealing with their college administration. In February the Brooklyn College political science department co-sponsored an event devoted to BDS. Some pro-Israel students at the event were expelled...
Honoring Carter
Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School honored former President Jimmy Carter on April 10th 2013. Carter has spread inaccurate information about Israel and the Middle East. Read Jesse Shore’s latest piece on the issue here. A CAMERA monograph, Bearing False Witness, details the falsehoods and errors about Israel by former US...
Is Mahmoud Abbas really a moderate?
Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), is often painted as a moderate by the media. But is he really a moderate? On May 1st 2013, a top PA official said that “resistance in all of its forms,” against Israel is still on the agenda, on a popular TV channel....
IDF officers visit University of Georgia
On April 18th, University of Georgia CAMERA Fellow, Michael Minnen, hosted an event featuring the organization Our Soldiers Speak. With help from UGA Chabad and UGA Hillel, Michael arranged for Sgt. Benjamin Anthony and Major Jonathan Conricus to visit the campus to speak to students and community about the Israel...
