The following piece is by CAMERA Fellow Lauren Barney. Lauren Barney is a Chinese and Political Science double major and junior at the University of Pittsburgh. Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article “Boycott Sparks Debate on Role of Academic Group” published Jan. 13, 2014. As a student at Pitt who has visited the Middle East...
Judea Pearl Meets with CAMERA
In January, CAMERA’s Campus Coordinators Samantha Mandeles and Gilad Skolnick met with our CCAP group at UCLA, Bruins for Israel, and with Judea Pearl, as seen in the picture below. Professor Pearl expressed his concerns regarding the prevalence of inaccurate information regarding Israel on the university campus and the effort by...
“I Am Kidnapped”
For eighteen days an entire nation waited with bated breath, eyes and ears transfixed onto televisions and radios hoping to hear of any new developments. Security forces had been working non-stop for weeks in one of the most comprehensive searches the country had ever witnessed, in order to locate Gilad,...
CAMERA Leadership and Advocacy Mission to Israel: Day One
This past week, CAMERA students from around the United States, Canada and Uruguay gathered for CAMERA’s annual Student Leadership and Advocacy Training Mission in Israel. The trip’s goal is to teach students to accurately and affectively spread their messages about Israel. The students on the trip include CCAP activists, CAMERA Fellows, and Israel campus...
University of Delaware’s ROTC Develops Connection to Inspiring Israeli Soldier
On April 29th, 2014, CAMERA Fellow Philip Chinitz held an event sponsored by the University of Delaware’s CCAP group, Israel U, Hillel and Chabad, specifically dedicated to ROTC members. Izzy Ezagui, an American born soldier, developed a passion for Israel after celebrating his Bar Mitzvah at age 13. He became...
Benjamin Anthony Visits UC Berkeley
On May 8, 2014, Sgt. Benjamin Anthony was brought to speak at the UC Berkeley by Tikvah and our CAMERA Fellow. Many of the participants were part of Tikvah, but other students from Christians United for Israel also attended. There were many who, at first, thought they did not have enough...
Drexel Brings Jared Ben-Caro
CAMERA Fellow Josh Dienstman and Dragons for Israel (A CCAP/CAMERA supported group) recently organized an event at Drexel University, where Sgt. (Res.) Jared M. Ben-Caro, a former IDF paratrooper, discussed his experience as a combat soldier during Operation Cast Lead. In this operation, the IDF entered the Gaza Strip to dismantle...
Breaking the Silence Silences IDF Soldier
Breaking the Silence (BtS) is “an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories.” Well, it is ‘reality,’ as long...
