CAMERA on Campus

When Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, known as the father of modern Hebrew, worked to revive the language as a spoken one, he believed it would be a tool to rapidly foster a sense of unity among olim, Jewish immigrants to the land of Israel. His success at making it accessible for day-to-day use continues...

Institutions of higher education have long been perceived as bastions of critical thinking and rigorous debate. Yet recent incidents throughout the United Kingdom suggest that some educators may be exploiting their platforms to rationalize or at least minimize acts of terror. From the distribution of Hamas propaganda to publicly endorsing or defending the violence...

Another morning, another flood of emails. Lately, my university inbox has become more than just a stream of class updates and administrative notices — now even this simplest of tasks has been hijacked by antisemitism. Statements from the Student Union condemning Israel’s “Genocide,” “Educide,” “Domicide,” and a list of other...

For more than a year now, protests have been taking place on university campuses worldwide. The University of Exeter in Britain is no exception. Exeter’s “Friends of Palestine” society holds weekly protests on campus every Wednesday, and these protests have continued despite a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and...

Since the October 7th attacks last year, Jewish and Israeli students have increasingly felt alienated on London campuses through a series of events and intimidation campaigns which facetiously disguised as activism. One of the earliest manifestations I witnessed of this phenomenon was directly after the October 7th attack. After the...

The Concordia Student Union’s (CSU) “emergency” General Assembly on January 29 was never going to be a fair process. Organizers expected 700 registered students but were overwhelmed by nearly 1,000 attendees. The Q&A session and structured debate were scrapped, and the motion rushed to a vote. Jewish students and opponents...

Update 2/21: In a deeply sorrowful turn of events, it has been confirmed that the remains returned by Hamas, initially believed to belong to Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Kfir and Ariel, have revealed that the boys were tragically murdered in captivity. Kfir was just 4 years old...

The Concordia Student Union’s (CSU) “emergency” General Assembly on January 29th was never going to be a fair process. Organizers expected 700 registered students but were overwhelmed by nearly 1,000 attendees. The Q&A session and structured debate were scrapped, and the motion rushed to a vote. Jewish students and opponents...