The group was recognized for its outstanding campus activism This year, UCF’s Knights for Israel was honored with the David Bar-Ilan Award for Outstanding Campus Activism. This award signified a tremendous amount of accomplishments for the organization. When CAMERA called with the great news, we understood why we were being...
Fellows in Focus: Jake Suster
Jake Suster is the President of CAMERA-supported group Knights for Israel at the University of Central Florida. As a Fellow, Jake will continue to bring a pro-Israel narrative to campus. KFI is currently the only pro-Israel advocacy organization at UCF, the largest university by student population in Florida.
Meet Ben Suster: Current Campus Coordinator, Former CAMERA Fellow
Prior to the summer of 2014, CAMERA campus coordinator Ben Suster was politically indifferent towards Israel. Although he had been there multiple times before to visit family and participate in programs, this trip was different. He landed a few days before the bodies of the three murdered yeshiva boys were...
Gay IDF Commander Talks about Life in the IDF, Anti-Zionism on Campus
During the spring of 2017, CAMERA sponsored ex-IDF soldier Hen Mazzig to speak on 17 college campuses. On one of his last stops was the University of Central Florida where Knights for Israel hosted Hen to speak about his life, his family, and his service. He began the night speaking...
University of Central Florida Israel Diversity Week
This past November, CAMERA-supported group Knights for Israel (KFI) and Central Florida Hillel collaborated to host the very first Israel Diversity Week at the University of Central Florida; the second largest school in the nation with over 62,000 students. With the help of CAMERA on Campus, the two organizations came...
CAMERA Fellows in Focus: Jason Frances
The CAMERA Fellowship supports student leaders in developing and strengthening their pro-Israel activism on campus. With the school year underway, InFocus is giving you an inside look into the lives of the 2016-17 CAMERA Fellows who are working hard to promote the facts about Israel on campus. Meet Jason Frances. Currently a senior at University of Central Florida...
Arab-Israeli Diplomat Tours Campuses to Spread Message of Coexistence
Diplomat George Deek spent almost a week in the State of Florida visiting college campuses with CAMERA. Even with his busy schedule he was able to make appearances at the University of Miami, Florida International University and, finally, the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Deek grew up in...
Muslim Zionist Kasim Hafeez Goes to UCF
Over the course of this semester we, members of the the University of Central Florida’s Emet for Israel supported group, Knights for Israel, realized we were growing much quicker than anticipated and we wanted to continue building on this momentum. We decided that bringing in another speaker and not generating too...
