BDS With a Twist: Campus Divestment Target More Than Israel This piece, regarding recent divestment resolutions at Stanford University and the University of California system, quotes our Editor-in-Chief. It was originally published at JNS.com, and is excerpted below. For more, read the full piece, here. While two recent student resolutions...
Harvard University’s SodaStream Situation
Last week, Harvard University’s dining services apparently decided to stop stocking SodaStream, due to some agitation against the company by College Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Harvard Islamic Society. Professor Alan Dershowitz set the record straight, as usual, with a timely op-ed in the Harvard Crimson, reproduced in full below....
Spirit of Hanukkah
Neither Greek nor Roman nor Spanish nor Persian Not Assyrian, nor German, or fierce Babylonian Not Egypt with Pharaohs and laws so draconian could stop our forward march. Not ‘Students for Justice in Palestine,’ Not here, not now, not at any time, Not Judith Butler, or Hatem Bazian could stop...
Keeping Track of Biased Professors
The AMCHA Initiative is an organization that monitors anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. Judea Pearl, friend of CAMERA, professor at UCLA, and father of the tragically murdered journalist, Daniel Pearl, wrote this piece in support of the quest to monitor professors’ anti-Israel activity and keep a current list of...
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...
SJP Thuggery: Thoughts from Divest This
From The Editor’s Desk: Thought of the Day (TOTD) If you’re a regular to CAMERA on Campus, or even a recipient of one of our famous packages of “goodies” (accurate, informational material and CAMERA swag to pass out on campus), you’re probably familiar with the pamphlet and blog, Divest This....
Fordham’s Shame: A Professor Charged With “Discrimination” For Fighting Against It
Last month, Tablet Mag published a story about Professor Doron Ben-Alter of Fordham University in New York. Professor Ben-Alter had been vocal about his condemnation of the American Studies Association’s decision to boycott Israel and only Israel. The decision of the American Studies Association to boycott Israeli universities in December...
ASA Boycott Is Not Really A Boycott?
The American Studies Association’s supposed boycott of Israeli academics and institutions of education has landed it in hot water yet again. According to Eugene Kontorovich‘s summary of the controversy, which surrounds the upcoming ASA annual meeting in Los Angeles, So according to the ASA, scholars who are “representatives or ambassadors”...
