The third full day of the Israel trip started with a meeting with Professor Gil Troy, a Shalom Hartman Research Fellow and author of Why I am a Zionist, who discussed how to portray Israel on campuses and how to tell the difference between legitimate criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism....
CAMERA’s Israel Trip Recounted
By 2014 Israel Trip participant, Alexa Lazerow, Towson University To say it was an honor being a part of the CAMERA advocacy mission to Israel does not suffice. The trip honed in to me more than anything I have ever done before related to Israel what my duty and mission on this...
Judea Pearl Meets with CAMERA
In January, CAMERA’s Campus Coordinators Samantha Mandeles and Gilad Skolnick met with our CCAP group at UCLA, Bruins for Israel, and with Judea Pearl, as seen in the picture below. Professor Pearl expressed his concerns regarding the prevalence of inaccurate information regarding Israel on the university campus and the effort by...
CAMERA Leadership and Advocacy Mission to Israel: Day One
This past week, CAMERA students from around the United States, Canada and Uruguay gathered for CAMERA’s annual Student Leadership and Advocacy Training Mission in Israel. The trip’s goal is to teach students to accurately and affectively spread their messages about Israel. The students on the trip include CCAP activists, CAMERA Fellows, and Israel campus...
From the Campus Director’s Desk: CAMERA’s Amazing Student Trip to Israel
CAMERA just completed its 7th Annual Student Leadership and Advocacy Mission in Israel. Our CAMERA Fellows, who were chosen to represent CAMERA on campus for the 2012-2013 academic year, participated in the all-expense-paid trip, along with student activists who are members of our CCAP-supported pro-Israel organizations. Twenty-three Jewish and non-Jewish...
Student Perspective: The 2013 CAMERA Israel Trip
The room was so tense; one could hear the heartbeats of their colleagues as they desperately hoped that their cell phones would remain silent. As the man with the distinguished British accent walked to the front of the room, we could all sense that greatness was in our midst. Sgt. Benjamin...
This year’s David Bar-Illan Award winners
On Sunday, CAMERA held its annual dinner in New York City, in which hundreds of supporters attended from across the country, and honored Khaled Abu Toameh, a distinguished Israeli-Arab journalist, lecturer, and documentary filmmaker. Congratulations to Ellie Rudee on receiving the David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Student Leadership and Yoni Kaplan...
