On Friday, March 25th, Cornell’s Students for Justice in Palestine and the Department of Near Eastern Studies plan to co-sponsor an event titled A Conversation With Mohammed El Kurd. It is inappropriate and deeply upsetting to see a Cornell department attaching their name to a speaker like this one. As...
Anti-Israel Propaganda Sponsored By Cornell University’s Institute For Comparative Modernities
The 2020-2021 academic school year saw an all-time high of 244 reported antisemitic incidents on universities across the country, including Cornell University. As rockets rained down on Israel from the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza, students at our university faced classic antisemitic harassment, including at least one student being called...
STATEMENT Regarding Recent Antisemitic Lecture Sponsored by Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
In response to Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning’s (AAP) October 5 event with Brown University professor Ariella Azoulay that featured brazen dehumanization of Jewish immigrants to pre-state Israel, our international campus director Aviva Rosenschein made the following statement: “Unfortunately, many US universities, including some of the most...
Vilification of Israel on Campus Persists Amid Gaza Rocket Attacks
While the latest barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip rained down on southern Israel, tragically killing an innocent civilian and injuring 70 others, hateful anti-Israel rhetoric at my university — Cornell — burgeoned. The threat of rocket fire into Israel is personal for me as my late grandfather Moises Rozanski lived...
Tolerance and Dialogue, Not Anti-Israel Hate Is Needed on Campus
Reject the outrageous platform of the 2018 National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference “Ethnic cleansing, destruction, mass expulsion, apartheid, and death.” What unspeakable horror could this be describing? The answer: Zionism. This is according to National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), a self-described “social justice movement” that opposes...
Five Facts the BDS Movement Should Learn from Bassem Eid
Bassem Eid, a Palestinian human rights activist, has lectured at many CAMERA-supported events on college campuses including at Cornell University, University of Miami, Florida Atlantic University, Vassar College, and Binghamton University. At each school, Baseem Eid shows students his Palestinian perspective, including his vision of how to improve life for Palestinians. He...
In the end, love will win
Israelis are known for not cancelling personal celebrations during times of war and terror. During Operation Protective Edge, the army managed to pull out two combat soldiers from the war for a few hours to attend their sister’s wedding. More recently this past November, Sarah Litman did not postpone her wedding after losing her...
Letter: BDS – A Reality Check
In the guest column “On Divestment and Hypocrisy,” the authors described an idealistic moral calling to divest from companies supporting Israel’s so-called apartheid actions. The truth is not so simple. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extraordinarily complex, and portraying it as they did is inaccurate. Furthermore, their claim that boycotting companies is...