Pro-Israel CCAP groups are starting the new year by tabling on their campuses across the country. Whether at campus activity fairs, rallies or at student centers, they are settling up informational tables or booths to help educate others on how they can get involved with Israel on campus. Many also...
Gaza Palestinians Support Caterpillar
American college campuses are frequently hotbeds of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and as the new academic year approaches, there may be pushes once more by those set on demonizing Israel. Unsurprisingly, about a year ago, the UN Human Rights Council, one of the most anti-Israel UN bodies, called...
Reflections on Interning with CAMERA
This May, I graduated from the College of Charleston. Two weeks later, my apartment was in boxes, I was saying goodbye to all my friends, and to the South. The next thing I knew, I was on a plane with my mom with a boarding pass that said Boston, Massachusetts....
Looking Forward to Advocate for Israel; 2013-2014 Academic Year
Attending CAMERA’s annual Student Leadership and Advocacy Training in August was one of the most enriching and beneficial experiences of my college career. As a rising junior at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL, I was honored to be to chosen to attend this past conference. As soon as...
Jeff Jacoby Speaks at CAMERA Conference
During CAMERA’s Student Leadership and Advocacy Training Conference last week, students had the opportunity to hear Jeff Jacoby, an op-ed columnist at the Boston Globe since 1994, speak. In addition, in 1999, Mr. Jacoby was the first recipient of the Breindel Prize, awarded for excellence in opinion journalism. Jacoby engaged...
The Little Activist that Could
I’ve always wanted to advocate for Israel. In the spring of 2011, after my experience on The March of the Living, I knew I needed to stand up for Israel, but it wasn’t until this week when I knew I could do it. All throughout my first year at Concordia,...
Setting the Pace to Finish a Marathon
If there was anything that I learned from attending the CAMERA conference a few days back, then it was that sprinting towards an unmarked finish line is impossible. Seven years have passed since I started running toward a goal that is simultaneously rewarding and destructive. Rewarding, because every stretch of...
My Life Has Taken an Interesting Turn
Hello, my name is Tatiana Rose Becker and I am a Zionist. That is not one of the first things people learn about me, but it is definitely the most important. It was not always this way. I grew up in a household that valued the Jewish culture over the...