On Wednesday, February 15, the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) Berkeley Senate met to deliberate on adopting SR-027, a bill proposed by Senator Shay Cohen. The bill calls for the ASUC to formally adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition...
CAMERA on Campus Publishes List of Top 12 Student Activists of 2022
A Note from the CAMERA on Campus Team At CAMERA on Campus, we believe in honoring those who have shown great courage and dedication in their efforts in the fight against antisemitism, including anti-Zionist attacks and anti-Zionist rhetoric. In recognition of this, we are honoring twelve student activists leading this...
[Press Release] This is Zionism: CAMERA on Campus launches its latest campaign to combat antisemitism
BOSTON, April 17th, 2023 – On May 15th, 1948, Zionism — the political, social, religious, and cultural movement found across diaspora Jewish communities worldwide —manifested through the establishment of the State of Israel. Since its birth, Israel has fervently stood by commitments from its founders to ensure “complete equality of...
UC Berkeley Should Stand Up for Jewish Students Like Me
Last November, two lawyers filed a civil rights inquiry against Berkeley School of Law with the federal government. This controversy began on August 23rd, 2022, when student group Law Students for Justice in Palestine urged other clubs within the Law School to adopt an amendment to bylaws stating that they...
The human cost of enabling the incitement of violence
Over the past couple of months, close to a dozen innocent Israeli citizens- Jewish and non-Jewish alike- had their lives taken from them too soon, at the hands of terrorists. Most recently, on May 5th, Yom Haatzmaut, three people were killed and four were injured in a terror attack in...
Don’t Believe the Lies: Zionism is a Movement of Peace
One of the biggest lies ever told about Zionism is that the subjugation or oppression of the Palestinians is somehow a central tenet of the movement. Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist organization with chapters at several universities, posits that “the Zionism that took hold and stands today is a...
Press Release: CAMERA on Campus Leads Campaign in Support of Zionism
BOSTON, April 13th, 2022 – On May 15th, 1948, the world witnessed the establishment of a Jewish state in the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. Seventy-four years later, the State of Israel stands as the embodiment of Zionism, the global movement supporting Jewish self-determination. This year, CAMERA on Campus...
A Story of Persian Jewish Resilience
I am a Persian Jew. My family fled Iran in the midst of the Islamic revolution, a violent uprising led by Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious extremist who threatened and later ethnically cleansed Iran of its religious minorities. My family’s story is one shared by Jews in Iran and countries across...