At the beginning of the Holocaust, the Nazi regime kept detailed lists of Jewish businesses and institutions throughout their territory. This knowledge led to Judenboykott, or “Jewish boycott,” which was the first coordinated action taken by the Nazi party against German Jews on April 1, 1933. Germans were not to...
Updated: Anti-Israel Polemicist to Give Wiesel Memorial Lecture at Boston University
Rev. Dr. William Barber II, the former president of the North Carolina Chapter of the NAACP who regularly refers to Jesus as “a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew” and who in 2018 falsely accused Israel of “targeting” Palestinian children “simply because they want freedom,” is scheduled to give the Elie Wiesel Memorial...
Free Speech Does Not Include Violence
Physical violence is not protected by the First Amendment As the US Air Force C-17 left Afghan airspace, I allowed myself to relax for a brief moment. My year-long tour in Kabul, Afghanistan was over. Returning home, I thought of those fellow soldiers, including my Command Sergeant Major, who had...
Anti-Semitic Groups Should Not Be Given a Platform on College Campuses
Editor’s Note: Sign this petition to demand that UCLA adhere to its commitment to “mutual respect, equality and inclusion.” UCLA permitting SJP’s event normalizes the group’s anti-Israel ideology “We know that Zionism is ethnic cleansing, destruction, mass expulsion, apartheid and death, but it is also something very tangible. The reason...
UCLA’s Tango With Hate and Anti-Semitism
SJP’s National Conference demonizes students across the country who are supportive of Israel Students for Justice in Palestine will host its annual national conference in November at the University of California, Los Angeles. Despite the notoriously anti-Semitic rhetoric used by this group, UCLA will be directly facilitating the spreading of...
Student Group Claims Tufts’s Anti-Israel Class Violates Administrative Policy
CAMERA-supported Tufts Friends of Israel opposes anti-Israel course. A fall course at Tufts University violates guidelines by the school’s president, according to a statement issued by Tufts Friends of Israel, a pro-Israel student group on the college campus. Titled “Colonizing Palestine,” the course proposes to “explore the history and culture of modern Palestine...
As New Anti-Israel Threats Emerge, Students Get Crash Course on Changing Campus Environment
CAMERA’s conference teaches tools of activism, using words, facts, patience and plain-old courage to combat the scourge of anti-Israel sentiment on campus. For most college students, summer is an opportunity to travel, hang out with friends or land that exciting internship. But for more than 80 students from nearly 70...
Who Will Withdraw Next?
The US withdrawal from the UNHRC is not about advancing a pro-Israel agenda. Reflecting on members participating in the UNHRC, it seems as if the international community has permitted some of the most notorious human rights violators to pass judgment unto nations around the globe. Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, El Salvador,...