Contributed by CAMERA intern Sarah Salinger. Today is Yom Hazikaron, the Day of Remembrance, which is observed every year to honor those who have died in wars to protect Israel and as a result of terror attacks. This year, Yom Hazikaron is especially painful for friends and families of the...
CAMERA Brings Benjamin Anthony to UConn
On Wednesday, April 1, CAMERA fellow Ali Jabick at the University of Connecticut hosted a talk with Sergeant Benjamin Anthony (res.) from the organization Our Soldiers Speak at the UConn Trachten-Zachs Hillel House. Sgt. Anthony was invited to bring awareness to students about the nature of the IDF and to...
CAMERA Fellow Published: Israel and LGBTQ Rights
Contributed by Concordia University CAMERA Fellow Bradley Martin. This piece was published in the Link‘s special LGBTQ Issue. It is reproduced in full below. Israel and LGTBQ Rights Why Israel Provides a Model for LGTBQ Rights Other Nations Should Follow Published March 25, 2015 While there is certainly much debate and controversy on...
Bringing the Sderot Media Center Director to SUNY Buffalo
Contributed by CAMERA intern Chaiel Schaffel. Though sometimes we can barely stand it, time is our most precious commodity. We are so rich in it that it has mostly lost its meaning. We waste time, chew time, burn time, even kill time. But there are those less fortunate. It takes...
Yom HaShoah In Israel
Contributed by CAMERA interns Sarah Salinger and Aaron Hunt. Today, the world commemorates Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. In no country is this day more poignant than in Israel, where at 10:00 AM each year, sirens wail throughout the country. Across the country, all activity stops for two minutes as Israelis...
Sign SAIPA’s Petition to Continue Suspension of Brandeis Partnership with Al-Quds
Our EMET for Israel group at Brandeis, SAIPA (Students for Accuracy about Israeli and Palestinian Affairs) is supporting university president Fred Lawrence’s decision to suspend the partnership between Brandeis University and Al Quds University. They are circulating an online petition supporting the decision, in the form of an open letter...
Laurentian Israel Group Works With PRIDE
With a little Zionist chutzpah, our Emet for Israel group at Laurentian University, LUJSA, just pulled off a unique event with the LGBTQ alliance, PRIDE. Entitled Half Off: Circumcision and Sex Toys, the Ultimate Games Night, the event was planned during PRIDE week—an entire week dedicated to celebrating and educating the...
U Chicago Student: Time to support Israel
Contributed by CAMERA’s Emet for Israel Liaison at the University of Chicago, Blake Fleisher. This article was originally published in the Hill, and is reproduced in full below. Miko Peled’s recent op-ed in the Hill, titled “Time to give Palestinians their country back,” was more rant than reason. Nowhere does he make a single...
