Editor’s Note: Sign this petition to demand that UCLA adhere to its commitment to “mutual respect, equality and inclusion.” UCLA permitting SJP’s event normalizes the group’s anti-Israel ideology “We know that Zionism is ethnic cleansing, destruction, mass expulsion, apartheid and death, but it is also something very tangible. The reason...
UCLA’s Tango With Hate and Anti-Semitism
SJP’s National Conference demonizes students across the country who are supportive of Israel Students for Justice in Palestine will host its annual national conference in November at the University of California, Los Angeles. Despite the notoriously anti-Semitic rhetoric used by this group, UCLA will be directly facilitating the spreading of...
Learning Activism
“I’ve always been a Zionist, but I was too timid to be an activist,” said Rebecca Fliegelman of Suffern, a 23-year-old senior at Hunter College. She was one of 80 students from 13 countries who gathered in Boston for six days in August for the seventh annual Student Leadership Training...
My Time at the CAMERA Leadership and Advocacy Training Conference
This summer, students from all over the world convened in Boston for CAMERA’s Sixth Annual Leadership and Advocacy Training Conference. They came from all over – from New York, Toronto, and California, to the United Kingdom, and Israel. They came to learn how to defend Israel on campus and how...
Amid rise in campus anti-Semitism, pro-Israel students prepare for challenging year ahead
For most students, the dog days of August are one final chance for summer traditions such as hitting the beach or visiting national parks with their family before heading back to campus. For dozens of pro-Israel college students, however, learning about ways combat increasing campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism was...
Building Bridges, Not Boycotts
The BDS movement is working to break down Israeli society and prevent Israeli individuals from developing the only democracy in the Middle East—a country where Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, or any other people for that matter, can practice their religion freely. CAMERA on Campus was thrilled to sponsor and participate...
The ‘Science’ of Israel on Campus: CAMERA Preps Students for Upcoming Challenges
By Sean Savage/JNS.org While Israel has been engaged in a seemingly endless summer war with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which is indiscriminately firing rockets at Israeli cities, pro-Israel students are about to re-enter an increasingly hostile environment for the Jewish state on their college campuses. Just a couple of...
2014 Future Leaders of Israel Conference a Great Success
CAMERA recently returned from the annual Future Leaders of Israel conference, this year in Boca Raton! Hundreds of students arrived from all over the state, and even some from other states such as Massachusetts and Kentucky, converging for a three day conference all about Israel and how best to educate...