More than 70 Columbia faculty members have signed a letter thanking university president Lee Bollinger for expressing opposition ahead of an undergraduate student referendum next month calling on the university to divest from companies doing business in Israel. The 74 faculty members, as of Monday, signed the open letter—organized by the Academic Engagement Network (AEN)—to...
More Hatred From Students for Justice in Palestine
There is a deeply disturbing pattern within the anti-Zionist movement of devaluing Jewish and Israeli lives. Wholly convinced of the irredeemably evil nature of the Jewish state, many anti-Israel activists display a callous indifference toward antisemitic violence perpetrated between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The ensuing devastation to...
Blood Libels in the Name of “Radical Love” at Harvard
Antisemitism is a unique form of hatred. While most forms of bigotry involve hating those who are supposedly inferior, antisemitism “punches up,” deriding alleged Jewish plots to ruthlessly control and subjugate all other groups. To illustrate this, here is a quote from former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) grand wizard David...
A Message to Pro-Israel Students: Fight Back and Make the Case for Israel
On many college campuses today, anti-Zionist organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) incorrectly portray Israel as a racist, white supremacist country. The success of these groups can be attributed to their use of intersectional ideas (the “interconnected” nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, and...
Questioning Only Israel’s Right to Self-Determination
In a Jan. 27 op-ed published in New York University’s student newspaper, Washington Square News, deputy opinion editor Asha Ramachandran makes the argument that U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Executive Order on Combating Antisemitism” does nothing to inhibit antisemitism on campus. Rather, she suggests that it only continues to silence Palestinian activists on campus....
Statement on the “Harvard out of Occupied Palestine Launch” Event
CAMERA on Campus is appalled at the shameless display of ignorant hatred at the “Harvard out of Occupied Palestine Launch Event” on February 20th, 2020. On multiple occasions throughout the night, students and panelists uttered patently absurd slurs, ranting about the “Israeli settler-colonial state,” Harvard’s supposed “nursing” of the “Israeli-Zionist...
The Defense of Zionism in an Age of Antisemitism
“No day is promised to us. You don’t know what’s going to happen,” said DeLuca. “There’s no reason to hide who you are.” Last semester, Shai DeLuca, an expert on CityLine and Canada’s number one interior design expert, came to speak at Clark University at an event sponsored and hosted...
When is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic?
Antisemitism has hopped to the forefront of the political conversation in recent years. It seemed like every interviewer of a Labour Party representative brings up antisemitism. However, these claims of antisemitism within the Labour party have been deflected and delegitimised as simply anti-Zionist arguments and criticisms of Israel. What is...