Photo: Ted Eytan/Wikimedia Commons On January 27, the King’s College London student community invited Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, to speak on an anti-racism panel. BDS is currently the world’s largest pro-Palestinian activist movement, inspiring countless international marches and protests on university campuses....
From SJP to Pro-Israel: Rezwan’s Story
Rezwan Ovo Haq, a student at the University of Central Florida, advocates strongly for that in which he believes. As a Muslim, Rezwan is devoted to helping fellow Muslims and Palestinians. He “used to believe Israel was an ‘Apartheid’ state, a terrorist state, a regime that routinely oppresses the Palestinians” and was very...
Five Facts the BDS Movement Should Learn from Bassem Eid
Bassem Eid, a Palestinian human rights activist, has lectured at many CAMERA-supported events on college campuses including at Cornell University, University of Miami, Florida Atlantic University, Vassar College, and Binghamton University. At each school, Baseem Eid shows students his Palestinian perspective, including his vision of how to improve life for Palestinians. He...
Angela Davis and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
On Thursday February 11, Angela Davis, considered a preeminent force in the world of political activism, spoke to the Denison student body. I am writing to comment on her lecture because I feel obligated to point out the misleading and false statements she made regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During her...
Knotted Narratives
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is not pro-Palestine, they are anti-Israel. This may seem like the same thing (pro-Palestine and anti-Israel), but they are not. SJP seems to only rally around Palestinians who are being killed by Israelis. They don’t talk about the abuse of Palestinians in other countries,...
CAMERA Fellow Published in Tulane Paper
CAMERA 2013-14 Fellow Ben Kravis recently published a letter to the editor in his campus paper, the Tulane Hullabaloo. Read Ben’s letter here or scroll below. Ben Kravis writes that one can be both Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian. This is a strong argument, as there is no reason one cannot support both people. Unfortunately, many campus...