University campuses are about engagement in open dialogue, discourse, and debate. They’re about the importance of conversation and education in challenging and inspiring students. This holds particularly true and necessary when discussing Israel. Students have wide-ranging political convictions when it comes to Israel, and several Jewish and Israeli students’ groups were created...
Israeli-American Professor Judea Pearl Given Award for Courage
Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science at UCLA, Turing Award recipient and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, is being given CAMERA’s inaugural Ometz Award for courage in recognition of his public renunciation of his Distinguished Alumnus status at New York University. Pearl, who received his Ph.D. from NYU...
Call Out Antisemitism, Even When it’s Veiled Under Anti-Zionism
Antisemitism is on the rise on both the far-right and far-left in the United States. In fact, according to the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitism in the US has increased by 57% since 2017. Increasingly around the world, antisemitism is veiled under anti-Zionism. Though this type of antisemitism is less obvious and harder...
Statement on NYU’s Decision to end its Relationship with NYU – Tel Aviv
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America deplores the recent decision by NYU’s Social and Cultural Analysis Department to officially end its partnership with NYU – Tel Aviv. While the resolution does not bar students and faculty from conducting research or attending classes in TAU, it did...
Response to ASI Passing the Freedom of Speech and Anti-Discrimination Bylaw Amendment
Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) successfully passed the Freedom of Speech and Anti-Discrimination bylaw amendment on Wednesday, May 1. This bill seeks to prevent all students — especially women, racial minorities, and LGBTQ individuals — from any type of discrimination. Section 4.7.1.3 of the bill states that “neither the board nor...
Equal Tears for Jews in America and Israel
In the past two decades, some of the most prominent universities in the US have hosted their despicable apartheid weeks, an attempt to delegitimize the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their historic homeland, on the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian initiated this horrendous tradition in 2002; it...
Israeli Apartheid Week Drives Divisiveness on Campus
Just like BDS, Israeli Apartheid Week has become a large part of the conversation about Israel on campuses across the country for many years. Similar to BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions), Israeli Apartheid Week is full of factually incorrect and misleading information. Israeli Apartheid Week was brought to our campus...
“The Running of the Zionist”
We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody’s examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Instead of Excessive Apology (1911) March 3, 2019, would appear to be...
