At CAMERA’s Annual Gala in New York, some six hundred CAMERA supporters came out to honor the students on the front lines of Israel activism today. The David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Campus Activism was presented to CAMERA-supported group Kings College London Israel Society. KCL Israel Society was thrust into the headlines due to...
Dartmouth Dean – Apologize for Support of Academic Boycott or Resign!
Following our coverage on Tuesday of Professor Bruce Duthu, Dean of the Faculty at Dartmouth College, and his support for the BDS campaign, new details have emerged. CAMERA’s students on the ground at Dartmouth met with Duthu himself, to confront him about his public support for the BDS campaign and his...
Breaking the Silence: Question What They Tell You
On May 3 and 4, J Street U held an exhibition of photos by an Israeli non-governmental organization called Breaking the Silence, whose goal is to “expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories.” I applaud its desire to better Israeli society, but I...
Mustangs United for Israel Honored at CAMERA Gala
Hundreds of supporters of CAMERA gathered last week to honor the student activists on campus, leading the fight for fair coverage of Israel. The David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Student Leadership was presented to Mustangs United for Israel (MUFI), the CAMERA-supported group at California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo. MUFI is a real...
Celebrating Israeli Independence in Florida
Last week, Israel celebrated its 69th birthday. As Israel celebrated, so did its friends all around the world – including at Florida State University, where CAMERA-supported group Noles for Israel put on a party for students. The celebration included three stations, each focusing a different city in Israel. At “Jerusalem”, students could see...
Dartmouth Dean Must Retract Support for BDS
Statement by Gilad Skolnick, Director of Campus Programming for CAMERA, on the appointment of Professor Bruce Duthu as Dean of Faculty at Dartmouth College: “CAMERA calls on Professor Duthu to publicly retract his support for the BDS campaign, and in the event that he does not do this, calls on...
Opportunities for Change at NUS
The National Union of Students (NUS) has received protracted criticism for its approach towards antisemitism. This issue reared its head once again last month, when tweets from Ali Milani, the NUS’s newly elected vice president, surfaced. From 2012 and 2013, these tweets are overtly antisemitic in nature. In one post,...
On Golda Meir’s Birthday, Her Words Ring Strikingly Relevant Today
May 3rd marked Golda Meir z”l’s birthday, the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. Born as Golda Myerson in 1898, she began her political career at the young age of 20, as a delegate from Missouri to the American Jewish Congress in the USA, and she never looked back. She was...
