After a long investigation held largely behind locked doors, Oberlin College has finally fired Joy Karega, an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition who moonlighted on social media as a hardcore anti-Semite. The Board of Trustees accused Karega inter aliaof “failing to meet the academic standards that Oberlin requires of its...
LGBT Rights in Israel and Jonathan Elkhoury
On November 2, 2016, Jonathan Elkhoury, a Gay, Christian, Lebanese man with a powerful story, came to Clark University. Jonathan’s visit was sponsored by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) and it was co-sponsored by Clark University Hillel’s Israel and Zionism Committee and Clark University’s...
40 years ago this week, the UN perpetuated Palestinian suffering
Over the past few years, the resettlement of refugees has been one of the key issues in international politics. The horrendous conflict in Syria has forced more than half the country to flee from their homes, with 4.8 million refugees rushing to neighbouring countries, and one million having applied for asylum in Europe. The...
CAMERA Fellows In Focus: Eliav Terk
The CAMERA Fellowship program supports student leaders in developing and strengthening their pro-Israel activism on campus. With the school year underway, InFocus is giving you an inside look into the lives of the 2016-17 CAMERA Fellows who are working hard to promote the facts about Israel on campus. Meet Eliav...
#UnityTour
On Monday night in the Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, there was a launch party for the film Mekonen: Journey of an African Jew and a concert from the famous Ethiopian-Israeli hip-hop band, Cafe Shachor Chazak. The turn out was amazing: music was blasting and the crowd was going wild. Hundreds...
CAMERA Fellows in Focus: Jonathan Manevitch
The CAMERA Fellowship program supports student leaders in developing and strengthening their pro-Israel activism on campus. With the school year underway, InFocus is giving you an inside look into the lives of the 2016-17 CAMERA Fellows who are working hard to promote the facts about Israel on campus. Meet Jonathan Manevitch. Many of the CAMERA Fellows advocate...
Twitter anti-semitism, and how Princeton beat it
Miko Peled, a critic of Israeli policies, was scheduled to come to campus on September 20. He and I agree on little — we disagree on almost everything, actually — but I try to open myself to dialogue. Peled was advertised as a human rights activist, and I looked forward...
Statement on Firing of Antisemitic Oberlin Professor
Oberlin College has finally fired Joy Karega following the exposure last January of her incredibly antisemitic Facebook posts. In response to the news that Oberlin College has terminated Karega, Aviva Slomich, International Campus Director for CAMERA stated, “Joy Karega is a disgrace to academia. It’s appalling that a professor would...
