“Happy like a Jew in France.” This slogan was once the refrain of many persecuted Jewish communities in Europe, who saw the French nation as a haven for the “people of the book.” France was the first European country to emancipate the Jews, granting them citizenship and equal rights. Napoleon...
BDS Supporters Protesting Netanyahu Visit to Holocaust Memorial Event Shows Everything That is Wrong With Them
On Sunday, a ceremony will take place in Paris to mark the 75th anniversary of the Vel’ d’Hiv, the mass roundup of 13,000 Parisian Jewry during the Holocaust who were arrested and sent to their deaths. Naturally, new French President Emmanuel Macron invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the...
French President Wants His Country To Be More Like Israel
France’s new President Emmanuel Macron tweeted last week that he wanted France to be a ‘start-up nation’. Israel is known as the start-up nation, holding the record for the highest concentration of start-ups in the world and more companies listed on NASDAQ than the entire European continent combined! Israel has...
Tisha B’Av: Remembering Tragedy
According to Jewish tradition, the Jewish people’s Holy Temple in Jerusalem was twice destroyed on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av. Yesterday (July 24th), observant Jews fasted to mark the beginning of a three week mourning period which concludes on August 14th with the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av. This concept...
Appeasing Iran
Problematic Western Attitudes Toward a Dangerous Regime In a recent visit to Italy, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told a group of Italian business leaders that Iran is the “safest and most stable country of the entire region.” Why, then, are leading global players tiptoeing around the regime? In the past...
French Jews Are No Longer Safe
Contributed by CAMERA fellow David Enav Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe, and the French Republic has felt it the most. France is a country well known for its royalty, art, and pursuit of democracy. This winter, France has been synonymous with terrorism as a result of the rise...
Terror Attack in Tel Aviv
This post was contributed by CAMERA Boston Intern, Chaiel Schaffel. The CAMERA on Campus team was deeply saddened to learn of yet another terror attack perpetrated against innocent civilians in Israel today. The attack occurred in Tel-Aviv this morning, when a 23-year-old Palestinian Arab named Hamza Matrouk began stabbing commuters on bus #40...
Je Suis Charlie Hedbo
Contributed by CAMERA Boston intern, Chaiel Schaffel of Maimonides School We at the CAMERA on Campus offices were deeply saddened to learn of the recent terror attack in Paris yesterday. News of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine building shattered the stateside early morning calm , bringing with it...