University campuses are about engagement in open dialogue, discourse, and debate. They’re about the importance of conversation and education in challenging and inspiring students. This holds particularly true and necessary when discussing Israel. Students have wide-ranging political convictions when it comes to Israel, and several Jewish and Israeli students’ groups were created...
ClarkU Hillel President: Response to Grynheim
Last week, Leah Grynheim, a senior at Indiana University Bloomington, published her first blog post for The Times of Israel: “Hillel excludes pro-Israel narratives.” Grynheim condemned the acts of Hillels across the nation, claiming that the organization has “failed to uphold their mission statement,” and she specifically mentioned my college, Clark...
J Street’s New Trip to Israel Pushes a Political Agenda
After a year of protesting Jewish and pro-Israel institutions for their refusal to demand that Birthright Israel incorporate Palestinian voices during trips to Israel, J Street is now launching its inaugural “Let Our People Know Trip.” The trip’s itinerary is formulated according to the notion that: “omission and erasure of Palestinian perspectives...
An Unnecessary Divide: Confronting the J Street Challenge
While the Jewish community around the world, as displayed by the comments of the Anti-Defamation League, finds common ground over Airbnb’s recent decision to boycott Jewish homes in the West Bank, J Street is busy trying to undermine that consensus. J Street, self-described as “pro-Israel, pro-peace,” condoned Airbnb’s action by...
Letter: Mainstream pro-Israel groups do welcome liberal Zionists
Brooke Davies’ Voices op-ed on May 12, “Yes, there is a Jewish left on campus, and it needs to be heard,” and Edward Kopf’s June 16 letter, “Young leaders want, need their voices heard,” call for the inclusion of the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” group J Street U in the pro-Israel...
I Stand with J Street and the UN: Give the Golan to ISIS
The following excerpt is from a satire by Gilad Skolnick, CAMERA’s Director of Campus Programming, and was originally published in the Times of Israel. It is time that we heed the United Nations and J Street’s (a lobbying group based in Washington D.C.) call against Israel’s control of the Golan Heights and...
Our First Camera on Campus Magazine ever!
Read Our First Camera on Campus Magazine ever! Twenty three years ago we published the first CAMERA on Campus Magazine, marking the launch of our campus work, with over 50,000 copies sent to 400 different Hillels across the country. We were one of the first organizations to put a focus...
My Issue with J-Street
This piece was published originally in the Times of Israel and written by CAMERA Israel trip participant, Naor Amir, on May 1st, 2014. Naor is a strong Israel activist at the University of Florida and is the founder of the pro-Israel group Zionist Gators. A growing divide is emerging within the...
