CAMERA on Campus

CAMERA’s Samantha Mandeles and Gilad Skolnick visit with our CCAP group at UC Irvine, Anteaters for Israel, and with CAMERA Fellow Daniel Narvey. UC Irvine recently voted against boycotting Israel: UC Irvine Opposed Proposed Boycott of Israeli Academic Institute. Anteaters for Israel has been organizing many great events about Israel...

This piece was contributed by CAMERA Fellow Meyal Chernoff, a pre-med Sophomore studying anthropology and biology. This piece was first published in the Washington University Political Review. In a world where we are enamored with quick fixes, we like to see everything as black and white. But when we are...

The New York Times ran an article on a store that was created by Kenneth and Elisheva Blum, American-Born Israelis living in the Samarian town of Eli (what the international community terms the West Bank). The Blums launched Boutique Katom in 2009 in response to calls to boycott Jewish businesses in Judea...

CAMERA’s campus team is all over the country. We just returned from the University of Southern California, where we met and spoke with dozens of students about the media and inaccuracies about Israel. At USC, students who had just returned from Israel, many of them for the first time, learned...

When UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, pulled their exhibit about the Jewish connection to Israel, the Arab league wrote that “The publicity that will accompany . . . the exhibit can only cause damage to the peace negotiations presently occurring, and the constant effort of Secretary...

SPHR & CJPME Watch Monitoring the University of Calgary campus club “Solidarity for Human Rights in the Middle East” (SPHR) and the Canadian charitable organization that funds it, “Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East” (CJPME) for hate speech, libel, and defamation. http://www.cuwi.ca/4/post/2014/01/sphr-university-of-calgary-pres-i-will-soak-a-koffiah-with-your-blood.html

The following post has been reposted from CAMERA’s blog, Snapshots:  CAMERA is delighted that popular blogger Elder of Ziyon has selected CAMERA as the 2014 winner of the Hasby Award in the category of Best Mainstream Media Watchdog. Elder writes: Besides having a stellar year with dozens of articles showing bias in the...

Contributed by Former CAMERA Israel trip participant Romeu Monteiro:  The weekly newspaper Expresso is one of Portugal’s largest and most influential newspapers. Earlier this January, it ran two articles on its website with titles and headers claiming that Israel had announced 1400 new settlements: one of the articles relating this...