While August and September were busy kick-starting events and actions on campus, October proved to be very beneficial by way of programming. CAMERA- supported campuses all over held different events and discussions about different aspects of Israel and Israeli culture. This month, Great Danes for Israel at the University of...
GMU SAIA Shuts Down Discussions on Israel
Last year George Mason University’s chapter of SAIA (Students Against Israeli Apartheid) hosted the National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference. One of their main focuses was to promote their campaign of anti-normalization, meaning that while they would lead their own pro-Palestine events and protest ours, there would be no...
UK CAMERA-Supported Societies Need You — Sign the Petition Today!
Click here to sign the petition. While commendably inviting Israeli lecturer Hen Mazzig back to speak on January 25th after his CAMERA event was violently disrupted in 2016, UCL is not permitting the majority of London area students who attended the original event to attend this one because they are not UCL students. UCL does not have a policy of restricting events only to UCL students. Instead of ensuring that...
November/December Events Report
November and December have been very active in programming on CAMERA- supported campuses. The large variety of events have allowed students to learn about different aspects of history, politics, and culture! Friends of Israel at Rockland Community College held the event, “Israel and The Middle East In The Age of...
August/September Events Report
On CAMERA- supported campuses, August and September have been months to “jump back in”. Different events across different campuses have allowed many students, faculty, and staff to connect and reconnect with other students within their community. Events such as tabling, general body meetings, and speaker held events allowed the different...
The Hero Behind the Scenes
On November 2nd we commemorated 100 years since the Balfour declaration. The Balfour Declaration was published by the British government during World War I declared support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, which was then an Ottoman region with a minority Jewish population....
Could Trump Be Right on Jerusalem?
Contrary to dubious online suggestions, Einstein did not say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Nonetheless, there is some truth to this idea in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A certain orthodoxy in thought has brought...
DACA and the Middle East Conflict: An Impossible Comparison
Before June 2015, when President Obama introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative to help undocumented young people obtain temporary citizenship, immigrants lived in perpetual fear of deportation. Today, with new representation in the Oval Office, fear is once again brimming. President Trump’s decision to cut the DACA...
