On campuses around the world, the word ‘Zionism’ has sadly become a trigger word. At a time when campus communities are putting a great emphasis on listening to minorities, letting them define terms related to their community, and making sure they are the only ones allowed to define hate against...
The False Comparison of Zionism and Colonialism
Anti-Zionists, especially BDS activists, have been quite successful in creating and spreading many false claims, exaggerations and misperceptions about Israel. I have been working with the campus CAMERA team on the launch of a social-media campaign called #ApartheidWeekExposed. Its goal is to shed light on how the actions of those involved...
ההשוואה השקרית של ציונות וקולוניאליזם
Photo: Government Press Office/Wikimedia Commons אנטי-ציונים, במיוחד פעילי BDS, הצליחו באופן מסחרר ליצור ולהפיץ טענות כוזבות רבות, הגזמות ותפיסות מוטעות לגבי ישראל. עבדתי עם צוות CAMERA בקמפוס בהשקת קמפיין במדיה החברתית בשם #ApartheidWeekExposed. מטרתו הוא לשפוך אור על האופן שבו פעולות המעורבים בתנועת ה- BDS מוגדרות כאנטישמיות בקמפוסים. בבית הספר...
Academic Antisemitism: In the Name of Palestine, Let’s Fail Some Jews
Photo: John D’Alembert/Wikimedia Commons Surprise, surprise: another case of academic discrimination against Jewish students. This time, the culprit is a chemistry teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University named Rasha Anayah. It seems her hatred for Israel has morphed into the potential abuse of her academic power. In late November, she posted a...
Northwestern University’s ‘Not Cops’ Trigger Controversy on Campus
Photo: Amerique/Wikimedia Commons Was Northwestern University’s campus group “NU Community Not Cops” being antisemitic when it called Northwestern’s Jewish president a pig? Some say no, but there is a lot more to the story. NU Community Not Cops protesters rebuffed claims that it was antisemitic to call President Morton Schapiro,...
An olive branch or an empty promise?
Photo: Brent Smith/Wikimedia Commons In a world full of instability, where everything feels uncertain, we should work together to build up one another. In difficult times like these, we should rally behind principles we know to be universal truths: equality, peace and love for our fellow man. Instead, we see...
UJS presidential candidate harassed online by anti-Zionist activists
Photo: Mingkai Zhang/Wikimedia Commons In early November, CAMERA on Campus Fellow and University of Birmingham student Anthony Bolchover launched his campaign for the UK Union of Jewish Students Presidency. Among other things, Anthony’s manifesto pledged to defend Zionism and unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism on British campuses. Unfortunately, Anthony’s campaign became the...
UCU motion submitted to revoke IHRA antisemitism definition at King’s
Photo: Rob Farrow/Geograph.org.uk On the 27th November, a motion was submitted to the King’s College London branch of the University and College Union (UCU) to call for the university to revoke its adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Following the IHRA’s publication of the working definition of antisemitism in 2016,...