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...
BDS event at Brooklyn College in detail
In addition to dealing with hostile anti Israel students, Brooklyn College’s Israel group, a CCAP (CAMERA Supported) group, has had a challenging second semester dealing with their college administration. In February the Brooklyn College political science department co-sponsored an event devoted to BDS. Some pro-Israel students at the event were expelled...
Honoring Carter
Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School honored former President Jimmy Carter on April 10th 2013. Carter has spread inaccurate information about Israel and the Middle East. Read Jesse Shore’s latest piece on the issue here. A CAMERA monograph, Bearing False Witness, details the falsehoods and errors about Israel by former US...
Israelfest at Queens College draws over 300 students
Over 300 students attended Queens College Israelfest, a celebration for Israel and her independence hosted by our CAMERA supported group: Israel Student Association (ISA). The event also featured delicious food, volleyball, a rock wall, a Kotel/Western Wall where people could leave notes with their prayers and wishes, and other great activities....
Israel: A Global Innovator – Technologically and Civilly
Contributed by CAMERA Intern Rebecca Pritzker: Acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking is in the news again, and this time, it is not because of a new discovery. The 71-year-old Lou Gehrig’s disease patient recently decided to boycott the Israeli Presidential Conference in order to protest against the “policy of the present...
A ‘Jew of color’ speaks out against Berkeley’s racist BDS movement
CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliated blog, recently ran a great story about an op-ed published in Berkeley. Read about it here or below: One of the more insidious elements of the BDS movement is the supremely dishonest racial narrative which suggests, in varying degrees of explicitness, that Zionism is a...