After returning from an awful weekend trip with a Christian youth group, I told my mother I wanted to stop going to church in the next town over and worship where we lived. “Nobody likes me over there,” I said. Her response was direct and brutal: “Maybe they are not...
Back to School with a Bang
All great things come to an end, and vacation is no different. But at Ohio State, CAMERA-supported group Buckeyes for Israel got straight back to work supporting Israel on campus! A number of students attended the Spring Involvement Fair at the beginning of the semester, to represent Buckeyes for Israel and...
UCL Releases Report On Hen Mazzig Event Intimidation
Last week, University College London (UCL) released its report into an incident of anti-Israel activity that occurred in October. Hen Mazzig, a former Israeli soldier, was speaking at an event hosted by CAMERA on Campus, CAMERA – supported group UCL Friends of Israel and CAMERA-supported group, KCL Friends of Israel, when the room was...
EU-Supported Palestinian University Calls to “Blow Up” Jews
A Palestinian university with strong U.S. and E.U. ties held a militant parade graphically calling for the murder of Jews. Birzeit University, just outside of Ramallah in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), held festivities to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the Fatah movement on December 31, 2016. Fatah is...
Super Bowl LI – The Most Zionist Super Bowl Ever
Super Bowl LI was billed to be a classic, and it certainly did not disappoint, with the New England Patriots pulling off the largest comeback in Super Bowl history to defeat the Atlanta Falcons 34-28. But this Super Bowl was also special in another way, in the depth of the...
Misinformation Leads to Harmful Boycotting
Walk around the NAC Rotunda between club hours, or even 12pm to 2pm on a Monday or Wednesday. There is no shortage of student clubs trying to sell you baked goods or fresh waffles. The pro-Israel student advocates at City College have introduced a Soda Stream. Soda streaming may be...
Oscar-Nominated Film Peddles Anti-Jewish, Anti-Israel Narrative
“Ave Maria” is a film that was nominated at the Oscars for Best Foreign Short at the 2016 Oscars. It is a fictional comedy, directed by Israeli-born Basil Khalil; and it is marred by a not-too-subtle disdain for Judaism. Although filmed in Israel with Israeli actors, it was submitted as...
Could Everything the Media Told You About Israel’s Eroding Democracy Be Wrong?
The putative ‘erosion’ of Israel’s democracy is one of those NGO and media-driven narratives that has developed into something akin to conventional wisdom among the state’s critics – despite the dearth of any real empirical evidence attesting to such a political decline. Such erroneous predictions, amplified within both the Israeli and British far-left, sometimes go...
