BDS

Contributed by CAMERA intern Aaron Hunt Three years ago, two college freshmen, Maor Shapira, an Israeli Jew and former lone soldier in the IDF, and Chloé Simone Valdary, a Christian African-American who grew up in New Orleans, met at a pro-Israel lecture at Tulane University. They talked after the lecture...

Contributed by CAMERA intern Sarah Salinger Many students at universities around the country have begun to take initiatives to divest from Israel. Most of these institutions are located on the west coast, including eight universities in California alone, but the trend is making its way across the country. The latest...

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...

Contributed by CAMERA intern Aaron Hunt. On November 18 last year, the Undergraduate Students Association Council at UCLA passed a resolution that calls for the university to divest from American companies doing business in Israel.  The resolution, promoted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), is part of the BDS...

Contributed by Alexis Sherman I am a Jew. Both of my parents grew up in Mexico City and life in the United States of America held the allure of freedom of religion, incredible opportunities, and the land of promise of what the future could be. Never in their wildest dreams...

Contributed by CAMERA Fellow Jeremy Ginsberg For the third year in a row, BDS came during spring quarter at UC Santa Barbara, and I am glad to say that it was defeated in only one meeting instead of in the multiple senate meetings my fellow students have seen for the...

On Monday, March 16, students piled into Northeastern University’s Hillel to meet and discuss the upcoming BDS vote in NU’s student government. The meeting opened with the director of Hillel, Arinne Braverman, offering words of encouragement for the outcome of the vote. Students, as well as community professionals from CAMERA, Combined Jewish...

Written by Kailee Jordan, a CAMERA Fellow at San Francisco State University. The Sociology department at San Francisco State University sent out a mass email Wednesday night addressed to “all sociology students”. This email invited all sociology students to come to an event where author Sarah Schulman, would talk on March 10th...