On September 14th, 2022, a banner was hung across from Cornell’s Center for Jewish Life with the message “Burn Prisons. Free Them All. From Attica to Palestine.” This attempt to conflate prison reform in the US with the detainment and imprisonment of terrorists by Israel is the latest ploy by...
Online Webinar Teaches Students How to Tackle Threat of Rising Antisemitism in Campus Media
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) and CAMERA on Campus host student panel discussion and interactive workshop, announce launch of new campus media contest to counter proliferation of antisemitic and anti-Zionist narratives in student newspapers. BOSTON/NEW YORK September 20th, 2022 –The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) and CAMERA on Campus...
‘It’s Become Difficult on Some Campuses to Get a Pro-Israel Opinion Published’
Campus media outlets have become a new front in the fight against Jew-hatred in recent years, amid a global surge of antisemitism that has hit colleges and universities particularly hard. To raise awareness of this pressing issue, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) and Combat...
Some universities are diverse and inclusive unless you’re Jewish
At the University of East Anglia in Norwich, Jewish students on campus have faced discrimination. In May 2021 alone, Norwich was marred by antisemitic graffiti and slurs during anti-Zionist demonstrations. Jewish students were targeted for somehow being responsible for the actions of the Israeli government, and the UEA Student’s Union...
BDS and the refusal to see antisemitism in UK Palestinian Societies
Earlier this term, KCL Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) co-hosted an event with 17 other Palestinian student societies across the UK featuring the co-founder of the anti-Israeli Boycott Sanction and Divest (BDS) campaign, Omar Barghouti. Barghouti co-founded the campaign in 2005. While BDS officially claims to oppose “anti-Jewish racism”, the...
The UNHRC’s great power & forgotten responsibility
“With great power comes great responsibility.” These were the words spoken by Sir Winston Churchill in 1906 and still ring true today. One would expect the United Nations, a deliberative body dedicated to upholding peace, security, and human rights, established in the shadow of the Second World War, where 60 million people lost their lives...
Combating Antisemitism Through Self-Defense
In the latter part of the 1930s, Bratislava was home to a large, affluent Jewish community. Overcoming many challenges as an ethnic minority, the Jewish community in Slovakia thrived. In 1938, a new wave of antisemitism gripped Bratislava. Jewish businesses were boycotted, burned, and looted, synagogues and yeshivas were burned,...
Why can’t we talk about Antisemitism?
Does Britain care about antisemitism? We profess to, and the value of protecting ethnic minorities is part of a desire for social justice that characterises western, liberal democracies. However, the entire thesis of Times’ Book of the Year “Jews Don’t Count“, by author David Baddiel, argues that Jews are often excluded from...