Contributed by CAMERA’s Emet for Israel Liaison at the University of Chicago, Blake Fleisher. This article was originally published in the Hill, and is reproduced in full below. Miko Peled’s recent op-ed in the Hill, titled “Time to give Palestinians their country back,” was more rant than reason. Nowhere does he make a single...
Progress and Change in the Iranian Regime?
The Islamic Republic of Iran had its 11th presidential election on January 14, 2013. Cleric Hassan Rouhani, considered to be a moderate and a vocal critic of Ahmadinejad, won the election with a majority vote of 51%. But will Rouhani’s victory mark the beginning of progress and change in the Iranian...
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While interning for CAMERA, high-school senior Rebecca Pritzker wrote the powerful blog piece Israel: The Modern Canary, which was republished recently in the Jewish Ledger. Former CAMERA Israel trip participant Romeu Monteiro recently wrote a piece for his school’s paper, which was also picked up by The Algemeiner: Israeli Inspiration, Portuguese Citizenship. ...
Divestment Resolution Defeated at UC Santa Cruz
BDS at UC Santa Cruz was defeated in a majority vote, with 19 against, 17 in favor and 3 abstentions. It is yet another failed BDS campaign to add to the list in the UC system. Emily Hochberg writes in the Israel Actions Network blog “This is the latest in a...
Ishmael Khaldi on life as a Bedouin in Israel at the University of Chicago
On April 7th, the University of Chicago’s CCAP- funded organization, Chicago Friends of Israel, hosted Ishmael Khaldi on campus. Khaldi is the first Bedouin vice consul of Israel and the first high ranking Muslim diplomat in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Khaldi delivered a lecture entitled Life as a...