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For Immediate Release CAMERA—Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Contact: Andrea Levin               National President and Executive Director               1 (617) 789-3672               aviva@camera.org ASSAULT AGAINST TEMPLE UNIVERSITY CAMERA FELLOW EXPOSES BIGOTRY OF STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE Boston, MA (Aug. 21, 2014) – CAMERA—the Committee for...

Budrus is a documentary that was released in 2009. The film focuses on the anti-Security Fence movement growing in the village of Budrus, located in the West Bank. The anti-Security Fence movement is a series of protests which often start as nonviolent demonstrations but often end with throwing rocks. These...

Eli Cohn, a recent graduate of Maimonides School and an intern at CAMERA, has been honored with the Ahavat Yisrael award by the Maimonides faculty. The award is given for Israel advocacy and activism on behalf of Israel. Eli not only interned at CAMERA for the past summer and for...

In response to Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s defensive operation against Hamas in Gaza which has fired hundreds of rockets in the past week into Israeli civilian areas, several new social media campaigns and pages have been created. Among them are #KidsAreNotTargets, Israel Under Fire, and Israel Facing Terror. All three...

Israeli advocate Sara Merson, who participated in the 2012 annual CAMERA Leadership and Advocacy Training Mission in Israel, is now living in Israel, and a current contestant in Israel’s reality singing competition, The Voice.  Sara as a contestant on Israel’s The Voice. The show is now in its third season, with a Canadian born...

The following piece is by CAMERA Fellow Lauren Barney. Lauren Barney is a Chinese and Political Science double major and junior at the University of Pittsburgh. Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article “Boycott Sparks Debate on Role of Academic Group” published Jan. 13, 2014. As a student at Pitt who has visited the Middle East...

This article was written by CAMERA Fellow Elliott Hamilton, from Pitzer College. This piece was originally published in the Times of Israel. Let me refer to a moment when the press displayed journalistic integrity: November 22, 1963. Three shots ring out in Dallas, Texas. The target: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of...

This piece was written by Andy Wallin and originally published in “The Eagle Online,” American University’s campus news paper, on March 27th 2014. Andy is a junior in the School of International Service at American and writes a bi-weekly column which is published every other Tuesday. Andy is a proud CAMERA Fellow and is...