On Tuesday, April 26, Bears for Palestine, UC Berkeley’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, hosted a movie night featuring a 2021 documentary called “Boycott.” This documentary screening was hosted in partnership with Berkeley’s Department of Ethnic Studies and Department of Race and Gender as well as other outside organizations....
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....
Statement: CAMERA’s North American Campus Director weighs in on antisemitic display at Borough of Manhattan Community College
Editor’s Note on July 6th, 2023: Read Senior Research Analyst David Litman’s response to a recent faculty petition regarding the BMCC display. Editor’s Note on March 17th, 2023: For context on this issue, please read an editorial published by CAMERA’s Senior Research Analyst, David Litman titled University Administrators Demonize Jews...
The Mapping Project — A major threat to BU Students
At the beginning of the Holocaust, the Nazi regime kept detailed lists of Jewish businesses and institutions throughout their territory. This knowledge led to Judenboykott, or “Jewish boycott,” which was the first coordinated action taken by the Nazi party against German Jews on April 1, 1933. Germans were not to...
A flailing assault on Israel by the Case Western Reserve University student government
A recent Case Western Reserve University Observer editorial accuses the university’s President Eric Kaler of promoting “falsity” and being “misinformed” about the BDS resolution recently adopted by the Undergraduate Student Government (USG). We agree that facts must be central to any discussion of the resolution and the conflict in general. This is why...
Abraham Accords: Time to Change the Conversation on Campus
In 2020, the world witnessed the signing of the Abraham Accords. This agreement normalized relations between Israel and four Arab states: Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and later that year, Morocco and Sudan. In May 2022, I hosted Yoni Michanie, a researcher and lecturer at Northeastern University’s Department of Political Science,...
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...
If Your Activism Doesn’t Include Jews, It’s Not Activism
Oglethorpe University will always have a special place in my heart. My parents met here, and my grandfather taught here as a young psychologist. I truly consider this school as part of my heritage. However, the other vital part of my heritage is being a proud Jewish woman. At Oglethorpe,...