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,...
SJP Speaker Josh Reubner
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...
Assi Azar Speaks to Students at Augsburg College
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 Speaks to Students at UC Santa Barbara
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...
Israel Advocacy and BDS at the University of Arizona
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...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The Right to a Safe Campus and a Secure Israel
This piece was originally published on November 24th in the Cornell Daily Sun. It was written by CAMERA Fellow Reut Baer. To the Editor: Re: “Students for Justice in Palestine Rally Draws Counterprotest,” News, Nov. 20 Over the past month, Jerusalem has not been safe. On Oct. 22, Abdel Rahman Al-Shaludi, a...
VALDARY: This is Our Year
This piece was contributed by the founder and president of CCAP group Allies of Israel at the University of New Orleans, Chloe Simone Valdary. This Is Our Year As soon as I came out of my European History class last Thursday morning, I saw the grass in the distance littered...
Georgetown Professor Joins Israel Boycott, Tweets CounterPunch, and Condemns Israel’s so-called “Massive Slaughter of Civilians.”
Notoriously anti-Israel (and, dare we say, anti-Semitic?) Georgetown University professor John Esposito has struck again. According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Esposito has become one of six Middle Eastern Studies directors at American universities to publicly embrace a total academic boycott of Israel: Georgetown University Professor John Esposito is...