Israelis are known for not cancelling personal celebrations during times of war and terror. During Operation Protective Edge, the army managed to pull out two combat soldiers from the war for a few hours to attend their sister’s wedding. More recently this past November, Sarah Litman did not postpone her wedding after losing her...
LGBTQ Freedom Found in One Middle Eastern Country
In 2016, you would expect the overwhelming majority of the world to grant equal rights to all including the LGBTQ community. However, the Middle East region truly fails in this area. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that recognizes LGBTQ rights and where any person of any...
Assi Azar Comes to Cornell!
Contributed by CAMERA intern Lilia Gaufberg On April 7th, 2015, Cornellians for Israel (CFI), our EMET for Israel group, brought Assi Azar to Cornell University to show students what life is like for LGBTQA individuals in Israel. He talked about how Israel is the only country in the Middle East that...
Clark Students Learn about LGBTQA Rights in Israel
On March 31st, Clark University, in conjunction with the Committee for Accuracy in Middle Eastern Reporting in America, CAMERA, hosted one of the Clarkies Helping and Advocating for Israel’s most successful events of the year: LGBTQA* Rights in Israel featuring Assi Azar, host of Israel’s own “Big Brother”. To an...
Assi Azar Speaks to Students at Augsburg College
On April 13th, the Augsburg College’s SSI (Students Supporting Israel) organization, an EMET for Israel group, hosted a CAMERA sponsored event on campus where Assi Azar spoke to an audience of around fifteen students. Assi Azar is a homosexual Israeli television personality who went public about his sexual orientation in...
Israel Public Affairs Committee at Harvard Hosts Ishmael Khaldi and Assi Azar
This past semester, the newly formed Israel Public Affairs Committee at Harvard (IPACH), a CAMERA-supported EMET for Israel group, hosted its first two events. In February, it invited Ishmael Khaldi, a Muslim Bedouin citizen of Israel and official in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to speak on campus. Khaldi...
Assi Azar Speaks to Students at UC Santa Barbara
Assi Azar, an openly gay Israeli television personality, spent much of April on tour with CAMERA, visiting college campuses around the US to speak to students about LGBTQ rights in Israel. His most recent visit was to the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he gave an insightful presentation...
CAMERA Takes Assi Azar on Tour
Assi Azar, an Israeli television personality and the host of Israel’s number one most watched TV show, is going on a nine campus tour thanks to CAMERA. Our goal is to teach students about the progressive nature of Israel and the LGBTQ community there. His tour started on March 30th...