On campuses around the world, the word ‘Zionism’ has sadly become a trigger word. At a time when campus communities are putting a great emphasis on listening to minorities, letting them define terms related to their community, and making sure they are the only ones allowed to define hate against...
Divestment Loses at Northeastern University
On Monday, March 16, students piled into Northeastern University’s Hillel to meet and discuss the upcoming BDS vote in NU’s student government. The meeting opened with the director of Hillel, Arinne Braverman, offering words of encouragement for the outcome of the vote. Students, as well as community professionals from CAMERA, Combined Jewish...
CAMERA Fellow Allison Moldoff Brings Kay Wilson To Campus
CAMERA Fellow at Simmons College, Allison Moldoff, hosted Kay Wilson, a British-born Israeli tour guide, jazz musician and cartoonist, at Northeastern University. Wilson is the survivor of a brutal terror attack that occurred while she was guiding in December 2010. Since the attack, she has become an amazing motivational speaker. At...
Northeastern Univ. Professor Abuses Platform To Preach Anti-Semitism
This piece was contributed by CAMERA’s Simmons College Fellow, Allison Moldoff and Northeaster University Huskies for Israel student Allie Glushanok. It was originally published at TruthRevolt. An alarming video posted by Americans for Peace and Tolerance on YouTube shows Muhammad Shahid Alam, a Northeastern University professor, boasting about violating free speech of pro-Israel...
Anti-Israel Group Found Targeting Jewish Students
Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP for short, are famous for using false information to empathetically pull students in to fight for the Palestinian cause. With a narrative such as theirs, who wouldn’t want justice for all? Who wouldn’t want everyone to be treated equally and humanely? Unfortunately, the...
SJP Suspended at Northeastern University
On March 7, Northeastern University’s Center for Student Involvement (CSI) announced that the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter is suspended at least until 2015. According to Max Blumenthal in Mondoweiss, Jason Campbell-Foster (the director of the CSI) wrote in a letter to SJP that they “have not shown...
CAMERA’s Regional Campus Coordinator Tours the Northeast
CAMERA’s Regional Campus Coordinator Gilad Skolnick has been traveling across the northeast, speaking about recognizing media bias and CAMERA’s work. At the Chabad Rohr Center for Jewish Life, catering to Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford Colleges, students who had recently returned from a CAMERA supported Birthright Trip had the opportunity to learn more...
Northeastern’s Justified Actions
The freedom of expression is laid out in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. While this freedom seems to be self explanatory, it is often more convoluted and complex than anyone could ever imagine. However, the biggest problem with the freedom of expression is that many people take...