On September 7, a group of professors, graduate students and staff published an open letter to President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff, listing the measures they deem necessary for an “anti-racist Cornell.” Buried within this set of proposals was the curious request that the University address “Cornell Tech’s involvement in...
Contagion of Scapegoating Spreads From Higher Education Into the Streets
Photo: Dexter Van Zile/Times of Israel Any hope that the ongoing campaign to isolate Jews from mainstream society in the United States was going to slow down as a result of campus shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was shattered in Boston on the first day of July. That’s when...
Anti-Israel Animus Has Run Amok Among Young Americans
Anti-Israel activists came out in droves across the United States and Canada in early July. Why? Ostensibly, to protest the prospect of Israeli “annexation” — or, more accurately, the potential application of Israeli sovereignty to certain areas over the Green Line (which has yet to occur). Of course, chants of “Death to Israel”...
הטיה וגזענות באוניברסיטת סירקוזה
מה שנראה כמאמץ אצילי לדון בהטיה באוניברסיטת סירקוזה הפך, באופן אירוני, לתרגיל מרושע, כשהשיחות הפכו לצייד מכשפות אנטישמי. כמה סטודנטים יצרו לאחרונה חשבונות אינסטגרם רבים, והזמינו סטודנטים וחברי סגל לפרסם סיפורים על אירועי הטיה בקמפוס. מי שמשתף את סיפוריו רשאי להישאר בעילום שם, אך זהות הסטודנטים והפרופסורים המואשמים בביצוע הטיה...
Bias and Bigotry on the Syracuse University Campus
What appeared to be a noble effort to discuss bias at Syracuse University ironically turned into a vicious exercise in bias and bigotry as the conversations turned into an antisemitic witch hunt. A few students recently created multiple Instagram pages, inviting fellow students and faculty to post stories about incidents...
Student Instagram Pages Broadcast Antisemitic Beliefs at Syracuse University
Last week, two new profiles appeared on Instagram, @BlackatCuse and @BIPOC.Syracuse. These pages, presumably created by Syracuse University students, invited students and faculty to post about incidents of discrimination and bias on campus to unite the student body against hatred. Unfortunately, several posts from these profiles inspired the exact opposite. A June 19...
An Ambassador Inspires Students to Defend the Truth About Israel
Photo: Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Flickr In late May, CAMERA on Campus hosted then-Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev for an online event offered exclusively to students on campuses around the world. With almost two dozen student groups co-sponsoring from Canada, the US, the UK, and Israel, and students attending all the...
Virulent Antisemitism at Florida State, Defended by Students
A Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter has offered us yet another astounding defense of antisemitic vitriol—this time at Florida State University (FSU). After the school’s Student Senate president, Ahmad Daraldik, found himself in the hot seat due to his own past antisemitic social-media posts and shockingly antisemitic website, he took to Facebook to explain himself on...