There’s a dearth of views beyond those being represented in lecture halls. Steve Bannon was invited to headline The New Yorker festival, which kicked off last Friday until a chorus of opposition from the left forced the publication to disinvite him. Apparently, Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer at The New...
Free Speech Does Not Include Violence
Physical violence is not protected by the First Amendment As the US Air Force C-17 left Afghan airspace, I allowed myself to relax for a brief moment. My year-long tour in Kabul, Afghanistan was over. Returning home, I thought of those fellow soldiers, including my Command Sergeant Major, who had...
Jewish Family Kicked Out of Palestine Expo in London
The Palestine Expo was advertised as a cultural event and a family affair. So I went to the QEII Conference Centre to engage with the atmosphere with my wife and youngest son. I knew that the content of the speeches would be full of hate, so rather than listen to...
Time to Hold SJP Accountable
Let’s talk about justice – a term that has been hijacked by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) over the course of their existence. Justice is defined as “the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness or moral rightness”. Students for Justice in Palestine, however, might have forgotten to look up that...
‘Free speech’ is Not a Cover for the Incitement of Violence
Paul Bronfman’s principled decision to pull funding from York University must serve as a wake-up call: the university has a real and pervasive problem with anti-Semitism that it is failing to acknowledge. York administrators are far more willing to moralize in hazy abstractions of “free speech” and “inclusivity” than to...
The Quest to Alienate Zionists on Campus
Ever seen or heard Zionist students admit that they no longer feel safe on campus? Wonder how big of a problem anti-Israel intimidation really is? Have censorship and boycott of Jews really appeared in Western academic institutions? Read on to find out… Today, the folks over at Spiked published a piece on their...
Cornell Daily Sun Sets the Record Straight, with CAMERA’s Help
Last month, Cornell University’s CAMERA Fellow, Reut Baer, was falsely accused of vandalizing fliers made by Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine. In an interview with the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, Reut cleared her own name and explained why the fliers were problematic in the first place. Read...
