Anti-Israel activists often draw unreasonable and overly simplistic comparisons between the Arab-Israeli conflict and social causes from police brutality to climate justice. Such conflations are often misleading and intellectually dishonest. A recent column in The Daily Collegian titled Palestinian Perspectives: The double standards of war by Ruya Hazeyen proved no...
A Response to UMass Chancellor Subbaswamy’s Refusal to Address Campus Antisemitism
On March 2nd, the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at UMass held a vigil lionizing several Palestinians involved in terrorism against Israelis. Some even affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, two groups that the US government classifies as foreign terrorist organizations, appearing on the same...
UMass Protects Propagandist From Scrutiny
Next year, Massachusetts taxpayers will pay almost $370 million to support the operations of UMASS Amherst, the flagship school of the UMASS system. Massachusetts families who send their children to the school have to shell out nearly $30,000 a year to cover tuition and room and board. That’s $120,000 for...
Casual Hatred at UMass Amherst
A young Jewish woman calls out from her seat in the auditorium at UMass Amherst’s Fine Arts Center. She confronts former CNN Commentator Marc Lamont Hill over his apparent indifference to ongoing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians launched by terrorists living in the Gaza Strip. Hill, who lost his job...
Will UMass Support Viewpoint Diversity or Political Propaganda?
On May 4, a panel entitled “Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech, and the Battle for Palestinian Human Rights” will be held at the University of Massachusetts. This panel, which was organized by the Media Education Foundation, seems to be designed to influence students into supporting a one-sided message against Israel....
“I Am Kidnapped”
For eighteen days an entire nation waited with bated breath, eyes and ears transfixed onto televisions and radios hoping to hear of any new developments. Security forces had been working non-stop for weeks in one of the most comprehensive searches the country had ever witnessed, in order to locate Gilad,...
Director of Sderot Media Center visits UMass
This piece was originally published on the front page of the Massachusetts Daily Collegian. This event took place at UMass-Amherst, and was organized by CAMERA Fellow Brett Hausler. Noam Bedein, Director of the Sderot Media Center (SMC), presented a lecture at the Isenberg School of Management on Tuesday about the...
United Nations Human Rights Council: Is it legitimate?
The United Nations Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system made up of 47 States. The Council is responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe. According to UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer on September 10, 2013, “the purpose...