On April 16, Abir Gitlin, the University of Miami CAMERA Fellow, hosted an event commemorating Yom HaZikaron- Israeli Memorial Day titled “Reflections from the Battlefield.” Abir noted, “For the first time in thousands of years, the people of Israel have an army that fights for the security of free Jews in their...
Sun Devils for Israel Peace Week
Campuses across the US recently held Yom Haatzmaut and Israel Peace Week Celebrations to celebrate Israel’s 65th Birthday and Israel’s love for peace. Sun Devils for Israel, a CCAP group at Arizona State University, put on a full week’s worth of events (below), including this incredible giant chalk board. Read...
This year’s David Bar-Illan Award winners
On Sunday, CAMERA held its annual dinner in New York City, in which hundreds of supporters attended from across the country, and honored Khaled Abu Toameh, a distinguished Israeli-Arab journalist, lecturer, and documentary filmmaker. Congratulations to Ellie Rudee on receiving the David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Student Leadership and Yoni Kaplan...
Florida Loves Israel Conference
The annual Florida Loves Israel Conference (FLI) that took place from April 12th to 14th, of which CAMERA was a sponsor, was a great success with a turnout of well over 100 students. Starting with the first annual FLI conference last year at Florida State University, pro-Israel students from all over the...
Scenes from our workshop @ Brooklyn College
On April 4th CAMERA was invited to Brooklyn College to work with students on how to recognize bias in the media, compose strong letters to the editor, and on how to go about responding to inaccurate op-eds and articles about Israel. About 20 enthusiastic students attended this event. Ask us...
ASU Screening of UNMASKED: Judeophobia
On March 6th, 2013, Alabama State University CAMERA Fellow, Rita Usher, organized a screening of the documentary film Unmasked: Judeophobia on her campus. Approximately 40 students attended. According to Rita, many of the student guests made connections between the struggle against antisemitism and the historical struggle against racism in the United States....
Peace Ball & Peace Offers
Our CCAP group at Brooklyn College ran their annual “Peace Ball” event on the campus quad. Dozens of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish students stopped by to share their messages of support for Israel and for peace. Israel’s quest for peace is quite impressive. Israel transferred the Sinai to Egypt in...
Opinion: BDS — a new name for an old tactic
Our 2011-2012 CAMERA Fellow Rachel Bandler just published an op-ed in the MIT Tech. Click here to check it out! She does an amazing job highlighting the hatred and hypocrisy behind the BDS movement as well as briefly outlining its origins.