On Friday, Oct. 18, UC San Diego’s Sixth College writing department hosted a public conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen as part of its yearly Culture, Art, and Technology Conversations series. Rather than speaking about how national identity and the media shaped his thoughts about war as a Vietnamese refugee —...
Distorting the truth: How UCL students whitewash antisemitism in their memorialisation of Palestinian poet Alareer
The Palestinian poet and writer Refaat Alareer was either famous or infamous, depending on who you ask. The University College London (UCL) alumnus, well known for his 2023 poem “If I Must Die,” and 2014 book “Gaza Writes Back,” an anthology of short stories from young Gazan writers, his untimely...
CAMERA on Campus Condemns Hostile Environment for Jewish Students at Concordia University
CAMERA on Campus is deeply concerned about the events that transpired at Concordia University’s Student Government Meeting on January 29, where a BDS referendum was passed under troubling and undemocratic circumstances. Reports from Jewish students indicate that the meeting was overrun with nearly 1,000 attendees, significantly exceeding its expected capacity...
The struggle of Mizrahi Jews across the Middle East
When Zebulon Simantov stepped foot outside Afghanistan in 2021, fleeing Taliban pressures with the help of American-Israeli businessman and philanthropist, Moti Kahana, the known Jewish population of Afghanistan reached zero. Simantov has spent the last 3 years in Istanbul but has recently arrived in Israel, his new home. Simantov’s title as the...
Betrayal of students at Yale University’s Jewish home on campus
As former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke on the second floor of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University on Jan. 21, students affiliated with Yalies4Palestine and Jews for a Ceasefire commandeered the main lobby. There, in the center of Yale’s Jewish communal building, protesters chanted...
Oberlin College Course Uses Antisemitism as Sword and Shield
A description of a course beginning this week at Oberlin College, my alma mater, reads: “Popular conceptions of the relationship between Jews and power tend either to adopt (in the case of sympathetic accounts) a view of Jews as perennial victims or (in the case of hostile/antisemitic accounts) a view...
Behind the Mask of ‘Pro-Peace’ Groups in Israel
Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green, the Israeli national directors of the Standing Together movement, were included in the Time 100 Next list for 2024 due to their extensive pacifist activities, such as the national campaign “The North Demands Peace – Deal Now.” As part of this campaign, the organization’s activists hung billboards in northern...
CAMERA on Campus UK’s Letter on UEL’s Consultation on Antisemitism Statement
Dear Vice-Chancellor Broderick, Find the below that we wish to submit for the consultation on UEL’s antisemitism statement. CAMERA UK expresses serious concern regarding UEL’s sudden decision to review its adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. In the UEL statement announcing the consultation, it is evident that this...
