Photo: Diliff/Wikimedia Commons On October 20, UCL Friends of Palestine and UCL Arab & North African Society hosted a discussion titled “A Palestinian Tale: The Story Behind the Statistics” with Palestinian political activist and novelist Susan Abulhawa. As a strong supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, she cannot...
סולידריות בעידן הקורונה לא שווה הרבה אם ממשכים להתקיים הסטנדרטיים הכפולים כלפי ישראל
בהתחשב בעובדה שהקמפוס שלנו ממוקם פחות מ -10 מיילים מווימבלדון, זה אולי לא מפתיע שעונת הטניס המסורתית במהלך הקיץ פופולרית בקרב סטודנטים ב- UCL. לפעמים הסיקור התקשורתי יכול להיות שנוי במחלוקת. לדוגמא, היחס של התקשורת כלפי אלוף ווימבלדון הבריטי, אנדי מוריי הסתכמה לעתים קרובות ב”כשאנדי מנצח הוא בריטי, כשהוא מפסיד...
The IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism: Were We Asking Too Much?
On Monday 21st January, over 300 students gathered in Logan Hall for what promised to be an historic vote which could transform the lives of the Jewish student contingent at UCL for years to come. It was a motion encouraging the Students’ Union to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and...
The BDS cult and the dancing Jewish students – a night at UCL
Last night, 25 Jan, Hen Mazzig returned to University College London (UCL) for a talk. Hen has uploaded his discussion with the UCL Provost on Facebook. Hen had been invited there following the disgraceful scenes that faced him upon his first visit in 2016. For those that do not remember, anti-Israel protestors...
UK CAMERA-Supported Societies Need You — Sign the Petition Today!
Click here to sign the petition. While commendably inviting Israeli lecturer Hen Mazzig back to speak on January 25th after his CAMERA event was violently disrupted in 2016, UCL is not permitting the majority of London area students who attended the original event to attend this one because they are not UCL students. UCL does not have a policy of restricting events only to UCL students. Instead of ensuring that...
Letter: 2016 Anti-Israel Protest at UCL Was Not A “Clash” Between Two Groups
After an article covering pro-Israel student activity appeared in Friday’s The Times of London paper, CAMERA on Campus UK Associates Khulan Davaajav and Tamara Berens submitted the following letter to set the record straight regarding their experience of the events that took place at UCL last October: Dear Editor: We commend...
Hen Mazzig Delivers at Boston College
On March 20th, CAMERA-supported group Eagles for Israel, along with the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), hosted Hen Mazzig at Boston College. As the CAMERA Fellow at BC, and as Co-President of the university’s only official pro-Israel advocacy group, I was ecstatic about the opportunity...
Letter: UCL Administration Should Hang Their Heads In Shame
This letter can also be found on Facebook. Rex Knight, Vice-Provost (Operations) UCL I was present at the event at the UCL campus when anti-Israel demonstrators attempted to no platform an Israeli speaker. I was there because I had been asked to attend. Jewish students became aware of the protest...