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...
CAMERA’s Published Letter to Ohio University Paper On Anti-Israel “Blood Bucket Challenge”
Last week, CAMERA’s scathing Letter-to-the-Editor regarding Ohio University student senator Megan Marzec’s “Blood Bucket Challenge” publicity stunt was published in the student paper, The Post! Marzec’s Declarations to Support Palestine Full of Contradictions By Eric Rozenman, a 1969 graduate of Ohio University and a former staffer at The Post. He is the...
Concern Regarding SJP at Simmons College
Dear President Drinan, My name is Allison Moldoff and I am a junior here at Simmons College. Last semester I went on a study abroad in Tel Aviv, Israel. Upon my return, I was chosen as a Campus Fellow for CAMERA: The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in...
The ‘Science’ of Israel on Campus: CAMERA Preps Students for Upcoming Challenges
By Sean Savage/JNS.org While Israel has been engaged in a seemingly endless summer war with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which is indiscriminately firing rockets at Israeli cities, pro-Israel students are about to re-enter an increasingly hostile environment for the Jewish state on their college campuses. Just a couple of...
A Veteran’s Take
Entering into my fourth year of college, I have seen the ups and downs of the Arab-Israeli debate. Sometimes you manage to come up on top. Sometimes you are caught off guard and find yourself between a rock and a hard place. Regardless of the outcome, every Zionist activist emerges...
Letter to the Editor: Why the ASA Boycott is Wrong
The following piece is by CAMERA Fellow Lauren Barney. Lauren Barney is a Chinese and Political Science double major and junior at the University of Pittsburgh. Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article “Boycott Sparks Debate on Role of Academic Group” published Jan. 13, 2014. As a student at Pitt who has visited the Middle East...