This piece was written by CAMERA Fellow Danielle Haberer of the University of South Florida, and was originally published in The Oracle on February 18th. You may have been approached in the Marshall Student Center, enticed by the offer of a free slice of pizza. Or maybe it was in the Library, as you...
In Opposition to the Boycott
This piece was originally published in the Cornell Daily Sun. The author, Ben Horowitz, is a CAMERA Fellow at Cornell. It’s an unfortunate phenomenon that a growing number of those who support Palestinian independence are currently leading a hateful anti-Israel boycott, which only makes independence and peace harder to achieve. The...
Jon Haber Relaunches His Blog
Jon of Divest This has relaunched his blog. Read his first entry below: so did I miss anything? Sorry for the hiatus. It was mostly work related, although as I mentioned as Divest This! was winding down last year, it’s not clear that a blog (with its reverse chronological nature) is the...
UMass Amherst Chancellor Condemns Academic Boycotts of Israel
AMHERST, Mass. – The following is a statement from University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy regarding the call for an academic boycott of Israel: “The University of Massachusetts Amherst is opposed to academic boycotts of any kind. The current boycott of academic institutions in Israel by several academic associations...
Brandeis and Penn State Harrisburg Pull Out of ASA Program in Response to Boycott
American Studies Association resolution to boycott Israeli Academic Institutions an affront to Academic Integrity. By Ariella Charny This past Monday, a third of the American Studies Association’s (ASA) members, of which there are some 5,000 members, voted in favor of boycotting Israel’s research and academic institutions. The resolution states the ASA’s...
Swarthmore Hillel Defies Hillel International Guidelines for Israel Campus Speakers
Swarthmore Hillel votes to defy Hillel’s Policy pertaining to Israel programming; Hillel President rejects the Swarthmore resolution and insists that any group carrying the Hillel name abide by Hillel’s Standards for Partnership. Matters heated up recently within Hillel when, on December 8th, Swathmore Hillel Student Board announced it had voted unanimously to defy Hillel...
Brooklyn College Hosts Ben White’s Lecture on ‘Israeli Apartheid’
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Ariella Charny. Anti-Israel activist Ben White was invited to speak at Brooklyn College by the college’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. Ben White, who describes himself as a writer, journalist and researcher on Twitter, gave a lecture at Brooklyn College on November 14th called...
CSUN Stands Back as Professor Klein Uses University Resources to Promote Israel Boycott
California State University Northridge fails to remove Professor Klein’s webpage, posted on the university server, that promotes the boycott of Israel. California State University Northridge (CSUN) Professor David Klein has found a convenient outlet for expressing his sentiments with regard to Israel: the University’s web server. Professor of Mathematics, Klein...