At the beginning of October, Clarkies Helping and Advocating for Israel (CHAI), the pro-Israel group at Clark University, hosted Noam Bedein for their Less Hamas More Hummus event. Bedein is the founder and director of the Sderot Media Center, a media advocacy center which portrays the human face of Sderot and Southern Israel under siege, to the...
Shooting Under Fire: Great Danes For Israel Host Gil Cohen-Magen
During the autumn semester, CAMERA’s Emet for Israel group at the University of Albany, Great Danes For Israel (GDFI), recently hosted an event entitled Shooting Under Fire in an effort to engage and inform a diverse audience about current events in Israel from an unbiased perspective. Gil Cohen-Magen, a photojournalist who has...
CAMERA Fellow Allison Moldoff Brings Kay Wilson To Campus
CAMERA Fellow at Simmons College, Allison Moldoff, hosted Kay Wilson, a British-born Israeli tour guide, jazz musician and cartoonist, at Northeastern University. Wilson is the survivor of a brutal terror attack that occurred while she was guiding in December 2010. Since the attack, she has become an amazing motivational speaker. At...
Madison Israel Club Promoting Israel Through Discussion-Based Events
This past semester, Madison Israel Club (MIC), the pro-Israel Emet for Israel student group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, orchestrated an event titled Less Hamas, More Hummus in an effort to educate students about Operation Protective Edge and provide a more comprehensive understanding of the challenges that Israel faces. The...
Bulls for Israel Bring New Students In
Bulls for Israel, our Emet for Israel (formerly CCAP) group at the University of South Florida, hosted a successful event entitled Understanding Israel this past fall semester, with the hopes of educating students about Israel’s culture and the impact it has on the world. The event consisted of three “stations” between which students...
CCAP Dragons For Israel Hosts International Photojournalist: Gil Cohen-Magen
In the beginning of November 2014, our CCAP group at Drexel University, Dragons for Israel, hosted the well-known Israeli Photojournalist Gil Cohen-Magen. The group hoped that Cohen-Magen would stir interest in the State of Israel as well as bring out a crowd of Drexel students. The event was quite a success! Over 20...
CAMERA Fellow At The Claremont Colleges Hosts Screening Of “The J Street Challenge”
To promote open conversation about being pro-Israel and pro-peace, CAMERA Fellow, Elliot Hamilton of The Claremont Colleges hosted a screening of “The J Street Challenge” in the beginning of October. Following the screening, Hamilton led a Q&A session via Skype with Avi Goldwasser. co-producer of the film. Hamilton stated that...
Graduate Student at Missouri University Writes Strong Response to Saree Makdisi’s Anti-Israel Lecture
We are so proud of Daniel Swindell, a graduate student at Missouri University, for his Letter To The Editor in response to Saree Makdisi’s lecture at MU titled “The Everyday Occupation of Palestine.” Read Daniel’s piece below: Editor, the Tribune: I attended the Saree Makdisi lecture at MU titled “The Everyday Occupation of Palestine.”...