This week, Kings College London Israel Society, a CAMERA-supported group, is hosting an event entitled “Forbidden Lines, New Friendships – The Case for Humanitarian Diplomacy in Syria”. The event may also make a small piece of history, as it is believed to be the first time that an Israeli and a Syrian have...
Lebanese, Christian, Gay — and Fully Israeli
Jonathan Elkhoury represents multiple minority groups in Israel. He told his life story to a rapt group of students at the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation on Dec. 1. His father fought for the South Lebanese Army against the Palestine Liberation Organization and fled to Israel when the Israel Defense...
A Lebanese Refugee in Israel
On November 3rd, Eagles for Israel hosted Jonathan Elkhoury at Boston College, as part of his CAMERA on Campus Fall 2016 tour. The event was co-sponsored by ZOA. As a gay, Christian-Arab who fled Lebanon with his family to Israel when he was a teen, Jonathan defies the narrative that...
LGBT Rights in Israel and Jonathan Elkhoury
On November 2, 2016, Jonathan Elkhoury, a Gay, Christian, Lebanese man with a powerful story, came to Clark University. Jonathan’s visit was sponsored by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) and it was co-sponsored by Clark University Hillel’s Israel and Zionism Committee and Clark University’s...
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...