BDS at UC Santa Cruz was defeated in a majority vote, with 19 against, 17 in favor and 3 abstentions. It is yet another failed BDS campaign to add to the list in the UC system. Emily Hochberg writes in the Israel Actions Network blog “This is the latest in a...
Sign this petition to condemn this anti-semitic mini series
Sign this petition to condemn the anti-semitic mini series that will soon be shown in much of the Arab World. “Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have publicly stated that antisemitism is a human rights issue. yet they have not once condemned the endemic and virulent Arab antisemitism that is seen daily by millions...
David Horowitz at Tulane
On April 24th, the CCAP-supported organization, Tulane University for Israel (TUFI) hosted David Horowitz on campus. Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the publication Front Page Magazine. According to David-Bar Ilan winner and TUFI CCAP Liaison Yoni Kaplan, TUFI’s program was presented in two parts. The...
Recognizing Hezbollah as a terrorist group
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rebecca Pritzker: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” –George Orwell On September 20th, 1984, Hezbollah—the terrorist group based in Lebanon and that is a proxy to Iran—targeted the United States embassy annex in Beirut. The car bomb that the...
The Forgotten Refugees
On April 18, our CAMERA Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Max Heller hosted a screening of The Forgotten Refugees on his campus. The documentary film reveals the story of the approximately 700,000-1,000,000 Jews who were persecuted and expelled from the Arab and Muslim countries in which they...
Israel: The Modern Canary
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rebecca Pritzker (en español) In the early ages of mining, coal miners brought canaries with them into the depths of the cavernous mines. As they mined, the brightly colored birds sang, filling the otherwise gloomy caves with cheerful song. As long as the birds continued to...
Ishmael Khaldi on life as a Bedouin in Israel at the University of Chicago
On April 7th, the University of Chicago’s CCAP- funded organization, Chicago Friends of Israel, hosted Ishmael Khaldi on campus. Khaldi is the first Bedouin vice consul of Israel and the first high ranking Muslim diplomat in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Khaldi delivered a lecture entitled Life as a...
Misguided SodaStream Protestors at American University
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rachel Wolf: On February 24, 2013 a group of American University students, along with various Washington, DC activists, gathered in front of the local Best Buy to protest SodaStream, an Israeli company that produces an at home carbonation system. These protesters, led by Students for Justice in...
