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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...

This piece was contributed by CAMERA Fellow Ben Kravis, and was originally published in The Tulane Hullabaloo on January 30th. You can read the published piece here or the original piece below. Students for Justice in Palestine hosted Eran Efrati and Maya Wind, a former Israeli soldier and a critic of the...

This piece was contributed by CAMERA Fellow Meyal Chernoff, a pre-med Sophomore studying anthropology and biology. This piece was first published in the Washington University Political Review. In a world where we are enamored with quick fixes, we like to see everything as black and white. But when we are...

The New York Times ran an article on a store that was created by Kenneth and Elisheva Blum, American-Born Israelis living in the Samarian town of Eli (what the international community terms the West Bank). The Blums launched Boutique Katom in 2009 in response to calls to boycott Jewish businesses in Judea...

CAMERA’s campus team is all over the country. We just returned from the University of Southern California, where we met and spoke with dozens of students about the media and inaccuracies about Israel. At USC, students who had just returned from Israel, many of them for the first time, learned...

Contributed by Former CAMERA Israel trip participant Romeu Monteiro:  The weekly newspaper Expresso is one of Portugal’s largest and most influential newspapers. Earlier this January, it ran two articles on its website with titles and headers claiming that Israel had announced 1400 new settlements: one of the articles relating this...

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...

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...