Linda Sarsour is a New York-based, Palestinian-American activist who is highly adept at promoting herself. She seems to always be at center stage, availing herself of photo-ops, and procuring prestigious platforms from which to preach, including an invitation to be commencement speaker at CUNY’s School of Public Health. How does...
The Time is Now
Picture this: advocating on a college campus for a democracy that has legal protections of LGBT individuals, equal rights for men and women, protections of religious minorities, and has a vibrant economy that’s home to incredible technological, medical, and agricultural innovation. Then imagine being attacked, threatened, or shoved aside for...
An Eye-Opening 10 Months
As someone who was once blind to anti-Israel bias both on and off campus, CAMERA has truly opened my eyes to its prevalence in academia and in the media. During the fall semester, I took a class taught by a very anti-Israel professor – one who spoke of ‘occupation’ and...
A Day with AIPAC Protesters: A Memoir
From presidential candidates to a spectacular rotating stage that left me with more questions than answers, AIPAC put their entire heart into throwing the Super Bowl of Israel conferences. Organizers go above and beyond to ensure we leave the conference with a better understanding of Israel’s past, present, and future....
Liberal Universities: The Heart of Intolerance
I go to a liberal university. A university where in the post modern world, no statement is left unquestioned. Where nothing is fact, but merely a social construction. Reality is disputed to the extent that there is no actualization of concepts, they are simply all conceptions, built up by...
BDS Fails at UCLA Thanks to Help from CAMERA Supported Bruins for Israel
On Tuesday February 25th, in the UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom, CAMERA supported CCAP group Bruins for Israel fought against a Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) resolution against Israel brought by Students for Justice in Palestine. From 7 PM until 6 AM the next day, students for and against the bill gave...
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...