Every year, Elon University celebrates the academic achievements of its students by highlighting some of the undergraduate research that has been painstakingly gathered, organized, and presented to its professors and student body. However, this year, the content of one project took me aback. The research offered by one student, a...
IfNotNow Spreads More Lies About Israel
Photo source: IfNotNow on Facebook The trope that Jews (or in this convenient case, the Jewish state) are the cause of another people’s suffering is not a new one. In fact, New York Times author Bari Weiss has traced it back to the time of Jesus’ crucifixion in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, and explains:...
Response to the Recent Anti-Semitic Incidents at Michigan
University of Michigan professor encourages bigotry Recently, John Cheney-Lippold, an associate professor in the American Culture Department at the University of Michigan, declined a student’s request for a recommendation letter for a study abroad program, with vocal support from multiple activists on campus. The reason? The student’s intention to study...
Kurds, Baloch, Israelis
By Elisa Greenberg Just as the Jewish people were left without a Jewish state for thousands of years and occupied by others, from the Romans to the Byzantines to the Ottomans, the Kurdish and Balochi people are nations without a country. The land of Kurds is divided between Turkey, Iran,...
CAMERA Israel Trip Participant is No Stranger to Media Bias
As CAMERA prepares to take students on the annual Student Leadership and Advocacy Mission to Israel, these future trip participants share their knowledge and experiences regarding Israel and bias in the media. Stay tuned for more pieces and scroll below to learn about the author! On Thursday, April 10, the...
BDS Failures Continuously Amassing
While we never hear it honestly from our daily news sources, and we hear about the Academic boycotts and the BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) campaign against Israel, the divestment strategy in particular has been failing in this past decade. Across college campuses, SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) attempts to...
Letter to the Editor: ‘Battle of the Bulls’ event spreads falsehoods about Israel
This piece was written by CAMERA Fellow Danielle Haberer, originally published in The Oracle of the University of South Florida and republished in the Algemeiner under the title College Group Uses ‘Game Show’ to Dehumanize Israel. I attended “Battle of the Bulls” hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In this game-show...