Palestine

These past few years, the Middle East has been exploding, figuratively and literally. But there is one country that has made news headlines since its foundation. Israel and her tumultuous relationship with her neighbors, especially Palestine, are at the forefront of the minds of most foreign journalists. Matti Friedman, former...

Midterms. The bane of any Boston University student’s existence, the dreaded moment that appears at the same time every year but always seems like a surprise.  My fellow students and I have been dealing with these necessary evils for the last few weeks, maybe feeling miserable, maybe complaining to our...

For the morally confused, the chasm between good and evil is best crossed by a well- constructed abstraction. Hence, the systematic murder of six million Jews becomes ‘the final solution`. Hence, the murder of innocent civilians is too often written off as “resistance“ and terrorists branded as “freedom fighters” by...

By CAMERA intern Shoshana Kranish  Back in June, Tel Aviv celebrated its 18th Pride Parade, the end to a week-long celebration filled with parties and beautiful people—Israeli and foreign, gay and straight. While the numbers are not exact, it is estimated that upwards of 200,000 people attended this year’s event,...

Contibuted by CAMERA Fellow David Enav. On October 16th, Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Houston brought in a speaker, Josh Ruebner, who spoke about why he thinks Israel and the United States have failed to establish peace and a Palestinian state. Although Ruebner spoke of his...

On April 13th, the Augsburg College’s SSI (Students Supporting Israel) organization, an EMET for Israel group, hosted a CAMERA sponsored event on campus where Assi Azar spoke to an audience of around fifteen students. Assi Azar is a homosexual Israeli television personality who went public about his sexual orientation in...

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 Alexis Sherman I am a Jew. Both of my parents grew up in Mexico City and life in the United States of America held the allure of freedom of religion, incredible opportunities, and the land of promise of what the future could be. Never in their wildest dreams...