On April 11, the Student Assembly will vote on a Resolution submitted by Students for Justice in Palestine (Resolution 36). Much of Resolution 36 is deeply misleading and inaccurate. Resolution 36 must be rejected by the Student Assembly, which should not adopt a document which falls below basic academic standards....
Dear Cornell University: ‘Reject BDS and Work for a Better World’
Four Jewish students at Cornell University, in a recent op-ed, called for a boycott against Israel. The authors make many false or misleading accusations, among the most despicable of them points they make regarding the Holocaust. The authors are correct that hundreds of thousands of heroic Jews died fighting Nazi Germany....
A Call Against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
To the Editor: Earlier this month, Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine announced a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. The campaign aims to divest Cornell’s endowment from companies they allege are responsible for human rights violations against Palestinians. A wave of these campaigns has spread to campuses across the country,...
Rejecting Boycott, Extending an Olive Branch
Cornell, an intellectual Garden of Eden, has been my “home away from home” for three miraculous semesters. There is only one other paradisiacal location on earth that is as close to my heart as the Big Red: The State of Israel. I deferred my enrollment to Cornell, resisting the allure...
PFLP Propaganda Makes Appearance Ahead of Cornell BDS Vote
A coalition of student groups at Cornell University has renewed the call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) at the university. Led by Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the effort is expected to culminate in a vote in the Student Assembly in late April. In a recent op-ed...
Seth Siegel and the Global Water Crisis
The world may be close to experiencing a global water crisis. More than seven billion gallons of water are wasted a day in the United States alone. This month, Cornell hosted a lecture featuring Seth Siegel, entitled “A Global Water Crisis Is Coming: What Can We Do To Avoid It?” Seth...
CAMERA Fellows in Focus: Josh Elkouby
The CAMERA Fellowship supports student leaders in developing and strengthening their pro-Israel activism on campus. With the school year underway, InFocus is giving you an inside look into the lives of the 2016-17 CAMERA Fellows who are working hard to promote the facts about Israel on campus. Meet Josh Elkouby. Now a sophomore at Cornell University, Josh...
Palestinian Human Rights Leader Condemns Hamas, BDS at Cornell Lecture
CAMERA brought Bassem Eid on tour to over a dozen campuses in the U.S. Please read below a review by a student reporter on the impact Eid made on her campus. Founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) and outspoken critic of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement Bassem...
