Contributed by CAMERA intern Shoshana Kranish As a kickoff to Israel Peace Week, the EMET for Israel group at Indiana University hosted academic Michael Leitner to give a lecture on Israel, peace, and coexistence. With several partnerships, including the Center for the Study of the Middle East and the Jewish...
CAMERA Fellows Screen Beneath the Helmet
CAMERA Fellows all over the country are screening the new film about life in the IDF, Beneath the Helmet. Elana Zelden, CAMERA Fellow at the University of Illinois, recently screened the film to 30 interested students on her campus. Then, a student who had served in the IDF spoke at...
Students Supporting Israel at IU Hosts Anat Berko
In late October, our Emet for Israel organization, Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at Indiana University, held an event titled Inside the Mind of a Terrorist. The student group invited Anat Berko, author of The Smarter Bomb: Women and Children as Suicide Bombers, to speak about her personal conversations with women and...
CCAP Group at U Georgia Hosts Reflections of a Jerusalem Correspondent with Etgar Lefkovits
Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at The University of Georgia hosted Reflections of a Jerusalem Correspondent featuring Etgar Lefkovits early in November. The pro-Israel group hoped to the disintegration of the Middle East with topics including new and old alliances, the rise of Islamic extremism and Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza this summer....
Students Supporting Israel at New Mexico Military Institute Hosts Anat Berko
This fall, Students Supporting Israel, the pro-Israel CCAP group at New Mexico Military Institute, organized an event titled A Night With Dr. Berko, which attracted over 100 people, including 87 cadets. Anat Berko, a world-renowned terrorism expert whose research focuses on suicide bombers and their handlers, spoke about the insights she...
Witnesses of History: The Meaning of Being Israeli
This piece was contributed as part of our Witnesses of History campaign by Amit Boukai, our CCAP Liaison from our CCAP group at University of Indiana, Students Supporting Israel A few loud booms woke me up from a dream early one morning eight years ago. I was 12 years old,...
Witnesses of History: Marta
This piece was submitted by CAMERA 2014 Israel Trip participant, Marta Slobodyanyuk, as part of our Witnesses of History campaign. Marta is a student activist with CAMERA’s CCAP group at the University of Minnesota, Students Supporting Israel. The plane readied itself for arrival. I remember that feeling in my stomach....
A Futile Letter From a Student to Academia
By Ron Feingold As the number of students walking through the halls of Universities increases, so does the role of academia in policy making. Essentially, what is easily the most energetic and effortlessly mobilized demographic in the world; young, educated, passionate, compassionate, ambitious, and idealistic- is constantly under the watchful eye...