CAMERA on Campus

The Harvard Crimson has published an anonymous statement by its Editorial Board in favor of the notorious Boycott, Divest and Sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel: In Support of Boycott, Divest, Sanctions and a Free Palestine. Despite the editorial’s portentous style, as a Harvard alumnus (GSAS 1987) I do feel it’s important to respond in an...

For Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP), degrading Israel is more important than supporting Palestinians. They don’t care that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) abandon airstrikes, drop warning leaflets, call and text residents and roof-knock to avoid civilian casualties or that Israel uses the most precise rocketry technology available to...

Anti-Israel activists often draw unreasonable and overly simplistic comparisons between the Arab-Israeli conflict and social causes from police brutality to climate justice. Such conflations are often misleading and intellectually dishonest. A recent column in The Daily Collegian titled Palestinian Perspectives: The double standards of war by Ruya Hazeyen proved no...

On April 12, 1945, General Eisenhower visited Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Upon his return to the United States, he emphasized the importance of spreading the truth about the Holocaust:   I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if...

One of the biggest lies ever told about Zionism is that the subjugation or oppression of the Palestinians is somehow a central tenet of the movement. Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist organization with chapters at several universities, posits that “the Zionism that took hold and stands today is a...

It’s ironic that Rabab Abdulhadi, the infamous San Francisco State University professor known for her anti-Israel-infused curriculum has recently accused her administration of being paid off by Zionist organizations to discriminate against her. This from the professor who has enjoyed little pushback in recent years from her colleagues or administration...

Progressive societies on UK university campuses often pride themselves on championing inclusivity and justice for all ethnic minorities. However, there is undoubtedly a different agenda when it comes to Jews and defining antisemitism. What arguably embodies this issue is the ‘debate’ over the IHRA definition of antisemitism, namely the opposition...

A few months after Duke University’s Student Government (DSG) scandalously vetoed the recognition of a pro-Israel group on campus, they have managed to outdo themselves by funding a known antisemite speaker. Earlier this year, DSG rescinded its recognition of Duke’s SSI (Students Supporting Israel) chapter after the Duke SSI Instagram...