Palestine

This piece was written by Alisa Rudy and first published in “The Ticker” on April 7th. Alisa is a junior majoring in Middle East Studies at Baruch College, is the current President of the CCAP group Youth Organization For Israel, Baruch’s student pro-Israel club. Peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leadership are yet again at a...

Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-Lebanese-American who is unabashed in his hatred towards Israel. If only he invested his skill and energy into bringing peace and economic cooperation to the region. By Ariella Charny “Israel [is] a settler, colonial, apartheid movement clinging to a racialist, exclusivist ideology.  [The Palestinians] were correct...

San Francisco State University has suffered from a rash of anti-Israel extremism, including the glorification of the murder of Israelis. The president of GUPS (Gen­eral Union of Pales­tine Stu­dents), Mohammad Hammad, recently publicly stated “I seriously cannot get over how much I love this blade. It is the sharpest thing I own...

Syracuse joins Brandeis in cutting ties with Palestinian Al-Quds University. Brandeis cut ties with its sister institution on November 18th, while Syracuse suspended its relationship with Al Quds on November 21st. The two universities responded as such to a Nazi-style military rally held on the Al Quds campus earlier in November.  In response to Nazi-style,...

SFSU General Union of Palestinian Students displays posters reading, “My Heroes Have Always Killed Colonizers”; University President condemns the event.  This week, San Francisco State University President Les Wong publicly condemned an event held on campus in which students created posters that read, “My heroes have always killed colonizers.” The posters were displayed in...

Contributed by CAMERA Intern Ariella Charny. Anti-Israel activist Ben White was invited to speak at Brooklyn College by the college’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. Ben White, who describes himself as a writer, journalist and researcher on Twitter, gave a lecture at Brooklyn College on November 14th called...

Brandeis University is in the spotlight this week as it has severed ties with its sister institution, Al Quds University, after Al Quds held a Nazi-style rally on campus, and failed to condemn it. On November 5th, Palestinian Al Quds University, which has campuses in Jerusalem, Al-Bireh, and Abu-Dis, held a...

Those riding the T in Boston will have likely noticed the newest line of anti-Israel posters gleaming from the walls. 80 posters depicting four maps that purport to illustrate “the Palestinian loss of land” to Israel between 1946 and 2010 are displayed in the metro. Next to the maps it says,...