A slightly edited version appeared in the Algemeiner While foreign activist groups drive much of the global push to isolate Israeli universities, some of the movement’s legitimacy is supplied from within. A segment of Israeli academics actively supports or collaborates with boycott campaigns either out of genuine conviction that Israel...
CAMERA Statement on the Murder of Charlie Kirk
We deplore the murder of Charlie Kirk, a Christian Zionist whose life was cut short at the age of 31. We offer our sympathy to his family and to all those grieving this terrible loss. This crime comes at a time of rising violence directed at Jews and those who...
Tehran’s unofficial embassy at Yale
The excitement I once felt arriving at Yale University from Tehran in 2023 for my studies quickly turned into concerns about my safety as an anti-regime Iranian. At school, I witnessed the unchallenged authority of Islamic Republic sympathizers in American universities. Faculty tied to the regime have long presented themselves...
Origins of the Arab–Israeli Conflict: A Debater’s Manual for the College Campus
I was performing a cardiac catheterization in Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center when a deafening siren abruptly halted my procedure. The noise was so loud that it was painful. I removed my sterile gloves placing my bare hands over my ears, but to no avail. When the excruciating noise finally...
CAMERA on Campus conference trains student fellows in advocacy and combating media bias
More than 70 student leaders and fellows—joined by over a dozen advisers from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, France and Israel—gathered in Boston on Aug. 4–6 for the 2025 International Student Leadership Conference hosted by CAMERA on Campus, a program of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and...
Beware: AI may be fueling Antisemitism
How frequently do you message your favorite AI chatbot to answer a quick question? Do you still trust its responses? In its early stages, this technology made glaring errors which stimulated a healthy amount of skepticism. But since evolving past simple arithmetic errors, this tool has become an almost, ubiquitously...
From Chalkboard to Ballot Box: The Political Stakes of Ethnic Studies
Following the deep dive into classroom instruction in Part III, this final section explores the broader societal and political implications of ethnic studies, particularly when ideology informs instruction and scales up to influence public opinion and foreign policy. By Charles A. Stone In 2025, approximately 418,000 California high school students...
Curriculum Is Policy, But Teachers Are Power
Building on the curricular divide explored in Part II, this essay looks beyond policy into the classroom itself, where teachers—not lawmakers—hold the real power over what students learn. By Charles A. Stone Curriculum provides structure, but in every classroom, the teacher holds the true power. While policy dictates the framework,...
