In mid-September, I received the news. I would finally be going to Israel. A longstanding dream of mine was being realized. I will soon be in the holy land. I am a native of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (having lived here since I was about four years of age). As...
Bedouin Israeli diplomat’s speech at U. Windsor disrupted, but he’s not upset
Recently Ishmael Khaldi spoke at the University of Windsor and despite the fact that he was “shouted down” by anti-Israel protestors, other students at the university listened to his message and understood its importance. Ishmael Khaldi is an Israeli diplomat, currently assigned to the Israeli Embassy in London, and formerly at...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine, Welcome to Reality
Midterms. The bane of any Boston University student’s existence, the dreaded moment that appears at the same time every year but always seems like a surprise. My fellow students and I have been dealing with these necessary evils for the last few weeks, maybe feeling miserable, maybe complaining to our...
Rabin’s Assassination: 20 Years On
On October 31st, 100,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv in Rabin square to memorialize Prime Minister’s Yitzkah Rabin on 20 the year anniversary of his assassination. Yitzhak Rabin was born in 1922 in Jerusalem and grew up in a Zionist home. He had a long military career, including serving...
Being Indian, Being Israeli
On October 22 CAMERA’s Emet for Israel supported organization at Brandeis University, the Students for Accuracy about Israeli and Palestinian Affairs (SAIPA) brought Dr. Maina Singh to campus, along with co-sponsor, South Asian Student Association (SASA), to hear her discuss her discoveries during her three years of research in Israel. At the...
Letter to the Editor: Buckeyes, hear our presidential candidates on foreign policy
As a Jewish woman living in the United States, I hold democratic values to be the utmost of liberties. I am privileged to have the freedom to vote, to have my voice heard and to make a difference in the future of our society — all things that my grandparents...
Israel and the UN: Hypocrisy of the Assembly
On October 7 Brandeis’ Emet for Israel supported group, Students for Accuracy about Israeli and Palestinian Affairs (SAIPA), along with co-sponsors, Israel Campus Coalition and StandWithUs, recently brought Anne Herzberg of NGO-Monitor to campus. SAIPA wanted to bring Herzberg as a follow up to their event “Wheel of Misconceptions,” during which...
Palestinian Human Rights Leader Condemns Hamas, BDS at Cornell Lecture
CAMERA brought Bassem Eid on tour to over a dozen campuses in the U.S. Please read below a review by a student reporter on the impact Eid made on her campus. Founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) and outspoken critic of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement Bassem...