Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rachel Wolf: Last week at Congregation Beth El-Atereth, the co-founder of the Amcha Initiative, Dr. Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, spoke about antisemitism on college campuses. At this CAMERA sponsored event in Newton, Massachusetts, Dr. Rossman-Benjamin, a professor at University of California Santa Cruz, spoke about how she has come to...
Recognizing Hezbollah as a terrorist group
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rebecca Pritzker: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” –George Orwell On September 20th, 1984, Hezbollah—the terrorist group based in Lebanon and that is a proxy to Iran—targeted the United States embassy annex in Beirut. The car bomb that the...
Israel Amplified 2013
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rachel Wolf: On August 6, 2013 students from various Greek organizations will come together to discuss the importance of Israel activism on their respective campuses. They will meet at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City for Alpha Epsilon Pi’s annual Israel Amplified conference (co-sponsored by CAMERA)....
Israelfest at Queens College draws over 300 students
Over 300 students attended Queens College Israelfest, a celebration for Israel and her independence hosted by our CAMERA supported group: Israel Student Association (ISA). The event also featured delicious food, volleyball, a rock wall, a Kotel/Western Wall where people could leave notes with their prayers and wishes, and other great activities....
Over 100 attend Israel Peace Week at Drexel
Dragon’s for Israel (DFI), Drexel’s amazing pro-Israel campus group, recently held their annual Israel Peace Week event. DFI, a CAMERA supported group, was founded by Shoshana Weiss, a former CAMERA Israel trip participant, CAMERA Fellow, and current president of DFI. The group now has almost 300 members on their list serve,...
A ‘Jew of color’ speaks out against Berkeley’s racist BDS movement
CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliated blog, recently ran a great story about an op-ed published in Berkeley. Read about it here or below: One of the more insidious elements of the BDS movement is the supremely dishonest racial narrative which suggests, in varying degrees of explicitness, that Zionism is a...
Smith Israel Alliance hosts Israel Peace Week
All over the county, our CCAP groups have been putting on impressive events celebrating Israel in honor of Yom Haatzmaut/Israel Independence Day. The Smith Israel Alliance recently hosted their wonderful annual Israel Peace Week, which includes covering the campus quad with a banner about Israel’s positive achievements. Read in The...
Reflections from the Battlefield at the University of Miami
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...