On Tuesday, April 26, Bears for Palestine, UC Berkeley’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, hosted a movie night featuring a 2021 documentary called “Boycott.” This documentary screening was hosted in partnership with Berkeley’s Department of Ethnic Studies and Department of Race and Gender as well as other outside organizations....
Healing the Wound: Should Anti-Discrimination Legislation be Passed by the Student Senate?
Last year, GW’s Student Association Senate passed an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic BDS resolution. On the same night, they failed to remove a publicly known anti-Semitic senator, Brady Forrest, from voting. The SA failed the Jewish and pro-Israel community at GW, allowing anti-Semitism on campus to go unchecked. While President LeBlanc denounced...
USS Silences its CUNY Constituents with BDS
The University Student Senate (USS) is a representative body of over 20 campuses under the umbrella of the City University of New York (CUNY). The CUNY website states, “the organization is charged with protecting the rights of the student body, furthering the cause of public higher education, and promoting the...
The Dangers of Divestment
Less than one year after USG voted down OSU Divest’s attempt to divest from Israel, the group has yet again pushed the issue onto the ballot. They claim the sole purpose of this bill is to fight for social justice, and to create financial neutrality by preventing OSU from using...
Princeton Votes on Divestment from Israel
Contributed by CAMERA intern Sarah Salinger Many students at universities around the country have begun to take initiatives to divest from Israel. Most of these institutions are located on the west coast, including eight universities in California alone, but the trend is making its way across the country. The latest...
Divestment at UCSB: Round Three
Contributed by CAMERA Fellow Jeremy Ginsberg For the third year in a row, BDS came during spring quarter at UC Santa Barbara, and I am glad to say that it was defeated in only one meeting instead of in the multiple senate meetings my fellow students have seen for the...
The Unbecoming Appropriation of “Apartheid”
This piece was written by the president of the CCAP (CAMERA Supported) group Claremont Students for Israel, Elliott Hamilton. The full version of this piece is available on The Times of Israel, and the link is below. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), an organization that consistently preaches anti-Semitism on...
BDS Failures Continuously Amassing
While we never hear it honestly from our daily news sources, and we hear about the Academic boycotts and the BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) campaign against Israel, the divestment strategy in particular has been failing in this past decade. Across college campuses, SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) attempts to...