Contributed by CAMERA intern Aaron Hunt Three years ago, two college freshmen, Maor Shapira, an Israeli Jew and former lone soldier in the IDF, and Chloé Simone Valdary, a Christian African-American who grew up in New Orleans, met at a pro-Israel lecture at Tulane University. They talked after the lecture...
IDF Soldier Izzy Ezagui Speaks to Binghamton Students
At Binghamton University, BUZO (Binghamton University Zionist Organization), an EMET for Israel group, invited famous IDF soldier Izzy Ezagui to come speak to students at the university’s Chabad. The event was co-sponsored with CAMERA. Ezagui is an American-born IDF soldier who was injured in combat in Gaza, losing his left...
The Israeli Genocide Myth
This piece was contributed by our Emet for Israel Liaison at the University of Windsor, Trevor Sher. It is a follow up to this piece, and was originally published in the Times of Israel. It is reproduced in full below. In the first part of this article I discussed the myth spread...
Achy Breaky Heart at UCLA
This piece was contributed by Arielle Yael Mokhtardazeh, a student in the Emet for Israel group at UCLA, Bruins for Israel. On Thursday, February 19th, 2015, Bruins for Israel and GlobeMed at UCLA hosted our fourth annual fundraiser, Achy Breaky Heart. This Valentine’s Day themed event was organized to raise funds...
Divest from the PA Campaign at UNO
Our Emet for Israel group at the University of New Orleans, Allies of Israel, has launched a petition and poster campaign to tell students about corruption in the Palestinian Authority. Chloe Valdary, the president of the organization and a consultant for CAMERA, posted on her Facebook about the campaign on the...
Roses and Dinner: Israeli Cooking with Love
On February 11, our Emet for Israel group at Laurentian University, LUJSA, hosted an event called Roses and Dinner: Israeli Cooking with Love, as a pre-Valentine’s Day celebration of Israeli food, culture, chocolate and fun. The students organized bread-baking, shakshuka making, and had background information on each piece of the meal. The...
Activism Ideas: Dragons For Israel Shares “Cookies For Peace!”
Dragons For Israel (DFI), the pro-Israel student group at Drexel University, hosted an event titled “Cookies For Peace” in an effort to share facts about Israel to the student body. During the event, members of DFI distributed cookies with facts about Israel to students passing by. DFI member and CCAP representative,...