[Editor’s Note: In March, CAMERA helped expose an offensive and factually inaccurate display on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was set up on the grounds of the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). Some illustrative examples of just how poorly researched the display was: It claimed that the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the...
What Really Motivates Most Anti-Israel Student Groups
Protests are not an unusual sight at McGill University in Montreal. Student activism is something of a vaunted tradition at our school. But March’s Israeli Apartheid Week was not a peaceful civil rights protest. No one was hurt, as far as I know, but rhetoric can be just as damaging....
Anti-Zionist revisionism sometimes starts in the classroom
Every year, McGill University’s Jewish Studies department offers at least one seminar on Jewish life in the Islamic world. These classes are important: most people know little about Mizrahim (Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, a region often abbreviated as MENA). But in highlighting Mizrahi/Sephardi identities, some academics—sometimes...
Dartmouth Student Newspaper Article Slanders Birthright Israel
Earlier this month, Ramsey Alsheikh, the President of the Palestine Solidarity Coalition of Dartmouth Students published an article in the student newspaper The Dartmouth titled Alsheikh: Hillel, End Birthright. Alsheikh’s article is an unscrupulous diatribe riddled with falsehoods about Birthright Israel, a nonprofit organization that offers young Jews a once-in-a-lifetime...
Statement: CAMERA on Campus Weighs in on antisemitism at the University of Michigan
Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), a student group and affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Michigan, has once again chosen to display its true colors. While the group purports to stand for “human rights, liberation, and equality,” it has a tendency to frequently...
An Open Letter to President Pollack: Cornell Must Tackle Rising Antisemitism
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...
Antisemitic Conversations with Friends: Academic Panel Dishonestly Promotes Bigotry as Knowledge
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi’s tenure at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the department for Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) has been rife with antisemitism. She has attempted to connect students to terrorists, supported antisemitic activism, propagated antisemitic conspiracies about Jewish power, and unrepentantly compared the Jewish indigenous...
MESA’s decision to adopt BDS is wrong
On December 2nd, the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) adopted a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign targeting the Israeli universities and academics. According to MESA President Dina Rizek Khuri, “the decision was made to show solidarity with researchers whose lives and livelihoods are being attacked by the...