On May 15th, 2022, CAMERA on Campus hosted an event with speaker Maurice Hirsch, Head Legal Strategist for Palestinian Media Watch at Hebrew University. As part of the event, Maurice described the historical aspects of how Arab leaders created the Palestinian narrative after 1948 that holds the Jewish state solely...
A Story of Persian Jewish Resilience
I am a Persian Jew. My family fled Iran in the midst of the Islamic revolution, a violent uprising led by Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious extremist who threatened and later ethnically cleansed Iran of its religious minorities. My family’s story is one shared by Jews in Iran and countries across...
The Forgotten Refugees
Photo: National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office/Wikimedia Commons November was Mizrahi Heritage Month. In honor of this, the John Jay Hillel, Students Without Borders, International Criminal Justice Club, and the Student Council partnered together with CAMERA on Campus to host a screening of the documentary The Forgotten Refugees. There were...
למה כדאי לכם ללמוד על יהדות המזרח התיכון ואפריקה
Photo: Zoltan Kluger/WikimediaCommons העם היהודי שרד מעשי זוועה רבים, מעבדות במצרים, לאינקוויזיציה הספרדית, לפרהוד בעיראק ולשואה. היסטוריה זו של מאבק מראה כי יש צורך לעמוד נגד שנאה ורוע. יהודים ילידי המזרח התיכון וצפון אפריקה (JIMENA) הוא ארגון עם משימה חשובה. ג’ימנה מעלה את המודעות למצוקתם של פליטים יהודים ומיעוטים אחרים...
Hen Mazzig Delivers at Boston College
On March 20th, CAMERA-supported group Eagles for Israel, along with the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), hosted Hen Mazzig at Boston College. As the CAMERA Fellow at BC, and as Co-President of the university’s only official pro-Israel advocacy group, I was ecstatic about the opportunity...