CAMERA on Campus

It’s graduation season, and like many others, I attended the Rutgers University engineering graduation ceremony this past week to celebrate my sister’s achievements. However, the celebratory atmosphere was clouded by a bitter campus controversy. A month ago, Rutgers rescinded its commencement invitation to Rami Elghandour, a university alumnus and the Chairman...

As this school year comes to a close, it’s clear that antisemitic incidents across University of California campuses are not following suit, but escalating. From protests against former hostages to promoting suicide bombers, and targeting Jewish students online, antisemitism is alive and well, as it has been for years. Regardless of the different...

Student activism on university campuses often presents itself as part of a broader global struggle for human rights and liberation. Students organize campaigns and protests under the belief that they are standing on the side of justice. Universities themselves have also long been spaces where political movements grow, and where...

Last year, conversations about Eurovision on UK university campuses stopped being about celebrating music and became a platform for anti-Israel hatred. It seems that this year won’t be very different. As president of my university’s Eurovision Society, I found myself in a lonely position ahead of the 2025 contest in...

During my four years as a student at Clark University, I have witnessed numerous episodes of blatant hostility and hatred towards Israel, both inside and outside of the classroom. In response, my fellow Zionist students and I used our voices to combat this rhetoric, yet we found ourselves to be...

Now that the Israel–Palestine conflict is no longer the main concern on university campuses, and Jewish students feel less defensive compared to the last couple of years, one would think that everything should be running smoothly. However, a recent incident caught my attention and made me think of it as...

On many college campuses, Jewish student spaces have increasingly become targets for ideological confrontation when associated with Israel. The issue is no longer just political disagreement over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but a growing expectation that Jewish students must distance themselves from mainstream Jewish organizations in order to comfortably participate in...

Universities are supposed to expose students to difficult perspectives, not shield them from uncomfortable ones. But on many campuses, Jewish and Israeli voices are increasingly treated not as viewpoints to engage with, but as problems to manage or condemn. Few recent incidents captured that shift more clearly than the reaction...