Each year, the pro-Israel organization at the University of California, Los Angeles, Bruins for Israel, hosts an event called Achy Breaky Heart. Bruins for Israel are the pro-Israel and pro-peace group at UCLA, and a CCAP group. The event is cosponsored by GlobeMed, an organization that empowers students and communities to...
American Born One-Armed Israeli Soldier Inspires USF Hillel Students
On April 8th, CAMERA Fellow Danielle Haberer organized an event at the USF Hillel hosting Izzy Ezagui, an American Jew who joined the IDF at age 18. The focus of the event was on Ezagui’s experience in the Israeli army, and his inspirational and unusual story. Originally from New York,...
The Israel Journey at FAU and The Forgotten Refugees
At Florida Atlantic University on April 3, students, many of whom knew little or nothing about Israel, were about to learn more about it from a map of Israel and the screening of The Forgotten Refugees. The Forgotten Refugees is a film which features the plight of the Jewish refugees...
Palestine is the Missing Partner for Peace
This piece was written by Alisa Rudy and first published in “The Ticker” on April 7th. Alisa is a junior majoring in Middle East Studies at Baruch College, is the current President of the CCAP group Youth Organization For Israel, Baruch’s student pro-Israel club. Peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leadership are yet again at a...
The Libel That Targeted the Zionist Community
Contributed by Elliott Hamilton, the President of our CCAP group Claremont Students for Israel. This piece has been republished in The Algemeiner. Early on a Shabbat morning, Daniel Mael was walking back with a friend to his dorm room at Brandeis University. Upon seeing a group of his peers passing by, he kindly...
A Win Against The BDS Movement at Cornell
Last Thursday, April 10th, the Student Assembly of Cornell University, with a 15-8-1 majority, voted to table Resolution 72 indefinitely thanks in part to members of the pro-Israel and CAMERA supported CCAP group on campus, CIPAC, who made a strong case. R. 72 is a resolution that was drawn up...
Israel, a Hub for Diversity
The following piece was written by our Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Brett Hausler. It was originally published on April 22nd in The Daily Collegian, and was republished in The Algemeiner on April 30th, 2014. One of the most misunderstood facts about Israel is that it fosters diversity and works diligently...
Bastardized Justice in the Middle East
This piece was contributed by Elliott Hamilton, a Liaison for our CCAP group Claremont Students for Israel. It was originally published on April 11th in The Student Life. Last semester, following the publication of my Nov. 15, 2013 article, “We Must Take Ownership of Our Own Humanity,” addressing dialogue on the Israel-Palestinian...