This following excerpt is from a piece by Aviva Slomich, CAMERA’s International Campus Director, was originally published in The Times of Israel. How do you explain to American college students that some of Israel’s neighbors pass out candy on the streets in celebration of murder of innocent people?This is unheard of...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The Right to a Safe Campus and a Secure Israel
This piece was originally published on November 24th in the Cornell Daily Sun. It was written by CAMERA Fellow Reut Baer. To the Editor: Re: “Students for Justice in Palestine Rally Draws Counterprotest,” News, Nov. 20 Over the past month, Jerusalem has not been safe. On Oct. 22, Abdel Rahman Al-Shaludi, a...
BDS and the CSU: A Story of Selective Outrage
This piece was written by our Fellow at Concordia University, Bradley Martin, and originally published at The Concordian. The full piece is reproduced below. Vote ‘No’ to the BDS movement on Nov. 25 On its website, the Concordia Student Union (CSU) describes itself as an organization that “offers a number...
A Futile Letter From a Student to Academia
By Ron Feingold As the number of students walking through the halls of Universities increases, so does the role of academia in policy making. Essentially, what is easily the most energetic and effortlessly mobilized demographic in the world; young, educated, passionate, compassionate, ambitious, and idealistic- is constantly under the watchful eye...
Understanding a Terrorist
On October 22nd, Israel was rocked with yet another attack on its citizens. A Palestinian man rammed his car into a crowded light rail stop, killing two people: a 3-month old American girl and a Ecuadorian woman who had recently moved to Israel to finish her conversion to Judaism. I...
Today I Was Called A Nazi
By Tatiana Rose-Becker This article has been republished in The Algemeiner. Today, among other things, I was told by a Palestinian student visiting at FSU, that the 67 innocent Jews murdered in Hebron in 1929 were actually not Jews, they were Arabs. I was also told I am less of...
Kurds, Baloch, Israelis
By Elisa Greenberg Just as the Jewish people were left without a Jewish state for thousands of years and occupied by others, from the Romans to the Byzantines to the Ottomans, the Kurdish and Balochi people are nations without a country. The land of Kurds is divided between Turkey, Iran,...
Second Thoughts on the Second Intifada
This piece was contributed by a CAMERA Israel Trip alumnus. It was also published in The Jewish Press. Originally from Portugal, the author, Romeu Monteiro, is now a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, and is a dedicated pro-Israel activist and writer. Jerusalem is known as the City of Gold...
