Proposed legislation in Ireland is strikingly similar to Early 20th Century Anti-Semitic European legislation. In the latest diplomatic spat between Ireland and Israel, Ireland advanced a bill that would criminalize imports of Israeli goods produced in the territories (sometimes referred to as the West Bank) and quite possibly beyond. The...
When BDS Fails, Palestinians Celebrate
One of the great ironies of the hateful BDS campaign is that it greatly harms the Palestinian people. This was demonstrated once again this week, but with a piece of good news. BDS was defeated, and Palestinians were able to return to their jobs. SodaStream had always prided itself on...
Palestinians are Hurt by BDS
“All the people who wanted to close SodaStream’s West Bank factory are mistaken… They didn’t take into consideration the families,” Ali Jafar, a Palestinian SodaStream employee stated back in 2015. He had been working at the Israeli company’s West Bank factory which produced home carbonation drink machines for two years before it...
Misinformation Leads to Harmful Boycotting
Walk around the NAC Rotunda between club hours, or even 12pm to 2pm on a Monday or Wednesday. There is no shortage of student clubs trying to sell you baked goods or fresh waffles. The pro-Israel student advocates at City College have introduced a Soda Stream. Soda streaming may be...
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...
SodaStream and CAMERA in Tacoma!
Last year, CAMERA hosted a national SodaStream raffle! The winner was Miss Hosanna Thalhofer, a student at Tacoma Community College in Tacoma, Washington! Since winning the SodaStream raffle, Hosanna has introduced her campus group, Students Allied for Israel (SAFI) to CAMERA, and helped to develop them into a CCAP group! Hosanna...
SodaStream Raffle Winner Announced
The winner of CAMERA on Campus’s SodaStream raffle is Hosanna Thalhofer, the President of the Students Allied for Israel club at Tacoma Community College in Tacoma, Washington. CAMERA Campus Regional Coordinator and CAMERAonCampus Editor-in-Chief Gilad Skolnick recently caught up with her and asked her a few questions about herself and...