Contributed by CAMERA intern Aaron Hunt. Today is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, which occurs on the anniversary of 5 Iyar (May 14), 1948, when David Ben-Gurion announced Israel’s independence. This year, the fifth of Iyar falls on a Friday, so Yom Ha’atzmaut is celebrated today to avoid conflicting with...
Bringing the Sderot Media Center Director to SUNY Buffalo
Contributed by CAMERA intern Chaiel Schaffel. Though sometimes we can barely stand it, time is our most precious commodity. We are so rich in it that it has mostly lost its meaning. We waste time, chew time, burn time, even kill time. But there are those less fortunate. It takes...
Settlements and Law
ARE SETTLEMENTS REALLY ILLEGAL? WRITTEN BY ELISA GREENBERG THE FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION Reuters, BBC, and The Guardian are among a number of mainstream media outlets that often claim Israel illegally occupies Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank of Jordan) and illegally occupied Gaza before Israel’s 2005 unilateral withdrawal from 21 settlements (8,500...
Palestinian Incitement 101
This following excerpt is from a piece by Aviva Slomich, CAMERA’s International Campus Director, was originally published in The Times of Israel. How do you explain to American college students that some of Israel’s neighbors pass out candy on the streets in celebration of murder of innocent people?This is unheard of...
A CAMERA Alum Shares: My Life As An Oleh
This piece was contributed by Ari Hoffman, a CAMERA CAP alumnus from the University of Central Florida. Ari made Aliyah after graduating in May, 2014. Ari’s account of living in Israel during Operation Protective Edge is part of our campaign, Witnesses of History. It has been an interesting few months...
Max Blumenthal Caught Spreading Lies (Again)
This entry is cross-posted from our Snapshots blog. This week, CAMERA analysts once again caught notorious anti-Israel blogger, Max Blumenthal, casually spreading lies on Twitter. As we posted in our CAMERA Snapshots blog, Blumenthal’s tweet in question was made in support of, and in elaboration of, another Twitter user’s claim that Ariel...
Prez of CCAP Group at UC Irvine Publishes Article on Israel
After witnessing a summer full of media bias against Israel, Sharon Shoulian, the president of our CCAP– supported organization at UC Irvine, Anteaters for Israel, decided to set the record straight with her own piece on Israel’s summer operation in Gaza. Sharon’s piece was recently published in the New University....
The Invisible Casualty of War
Horror, fear, panic, anxiety. All of these go hand in hand with war, as Israelis and Palestinians have come to know time and time again. With each new conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, the television screens become inundated with stories detailing the horrific violence highlighted by footage of sirens blaring...