This piece was published originally in the Times of Israel and written by CAMERA Israel trip participant, Naor Amir, on May 1st, 2014. Naor is a strong Israel activist at the University of Florida and is the founder of the pro-Israel group Zionist Gators. A growing divide is emerging within the...
SJP v. Mercado, a ‘Fair’ Fight?
This piece was written by Seth Greenwald and published in the Times of Israel. Seth Greenwald is a sophomore at Clark University and a strong pro-Israel advocate. The Students for Justice in Palestine, an anti-Israel, allegedly pro-Palestinian student organization, have picked the wrong fight against Florida Atlantic University student Abraham Mercado. Mercado, a strong pro-Israel...
Jeff Jacoby comes to the University of Pittsburgh
On April 6, CAMERA Fellow Lauren Barney brought Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby to speak at a breakfast event at the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Jacoby spoke about what Zionism really means. He also stressed that people should view the term “Zionism” as a positive term, one to be proud...
The Libel That Targeted the Zionist Community
Contributed by Elliott Hamilton, the President of our CCAP group Claremont Students for Israel. This piece has been republished in The Algemeiner. Early on a Shabbat morning, Daniel Mael was walking back with a friend to his dorm room at Brandeis University. Upon seeing a group of his peers passing by, he kindly...
J Street Exposed at Film Screening in Israel
The screening of “The J Street Challenge: A Seductive Allure of Peace in Our Time”, co-sponsored by Tel Aviv International Salon, CAMERA, and StandWithUs, attracted close to 300 participants at the Tel Aviv screening on March 18, 2014. According to its synopsis, “The film investigates the background of J Street...
We Must Take Ownership of Our Own Humanity
By Elliot Hamilton of Pamona College, who is part of the CCAP group Claremont Colleges for Israel. The piece We Must Take Ownership of Our Own Humanity was originally published on November 15 in The Student Life. Political discourse runs vigorously through the veins of this consortium. Claremont presents itself as a...
Pro-Israel Activists Applaud the Destruction of Israel?
J Street is wrapping up their conference in Washington D.C., which has attracted thousands of professionals and students from across the country to attend and learn about the organization and their values. Particularly troubling aspects of the conference are some of the audience which are attracted to it and the...
My Life Has Taken an Interesting Turn
Hello, my name is Tatiana Rose Becker and I am a Zionist. That is not one of the first things people learn about me, but it is definitely the most important. It was not always this way. I grew up in a household that valued the Jewish culture over the...