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This past semester, the newly formed Israel Public Affairs Committee at Harvard (IPACH), a CAMERA-supported EMET for Israel group, hosted its first two events. In February, it invited Ishmael Khaldi, a Muslim Bedouin citizen of Israel and official in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to speak on campus. Khaldi...

Assi Azar, an openly gay Israeli television personality, spent much of April on tour with CAMERA, visiting college campuses around the US to speak to students about LGBTQ rights in Israel. His most recent visit was to the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he gave an insightful presentation...

Contributed by Concordia University CAMERA Fellow Bradley Martin. This piece was published in the Link‘s special LGBTQ Issue. It is reproduced in full below.  Israel and LGTBQ Rights Why Israel Provides a Model for LGTBQ Rights Other Nations Should Follow Published March 25, 2015 While there is certainly much debate and controversy on...

With a little Zionist chutzpah, our Emet for Israel group at Laurentian University, LUJSA, just pulled off a unique event with the LGBTQ alliance, PRIDE. Entitled Half Off: Circumcision and Sex Toys, the Ultimate Games Night, the event was planned during PRIDE week—an entire week dedicated to celebrating and educating the...

Written by Kailee Jordan, a CAMERA Fellow at San Francisco State University. The Sociology department at San Francisco State University sent out a mass email Wednesday night addressed to “all sociology students”. This email invited all sociology students to come to an event where author Sarah Schulman, would talk on March 10th...

This piece was originally published in The Concordian on April 8th 2014. Our CAMERA Fellow at Concordia, Michelle Soicher, organized the event described below. It was meant to be a non-political snapshot of Israel’s sexual minorities for the purpose of fostering dialogue and widening viewpoints. Yet the documentary ‘Out in Israel’,...