Bassem Eid, a Palestinian human rights activist, has lectured at many CAMERA-supported events on college campuses including at Cornell University, University of Miami, Florida Atlantic University, Vassar College, and Binghamton University. At each school, Baseem Eid shows students his Palestinian perspective, including his vision of how to improve life for Palestinians. He...
Dialogue Sparked at Judges for Israel-Hosted Event
Brandeis University’s Emet for Israel supported group Judges for Israel (JFI) recently hosted a panel of speakers from The Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) who discussed the topic of peace and how it can be achieved. The three panelists arrived early to introduce themselves to the JFI board and to explain in...
Trouble with Chomsky
On November 8, 2015 linguist Noam Chomsky and Norwegian physician Mads Gilbert spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The event drew harsh criticism from MIT students because Dr. Gilbert has explicitly supported the 9/11 terror attacks. In an opinion article published in the MIT Tech newspaper, one student asks “Why is...
Vassar College: New Voices Coming to Campus Beginning with Bassem Eid
Editor’s Note: Brave CAMERA Fellow Jason Storch is bringing Palestinian human rights activist and CAMERA speaker Bassem Eid to Vassar College on February 17th, following a slew of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bigotry on its campus. We commend Jason, who, with the help of the college, is bringing the first Palestinian speaker to campus...
Public Speech Without Accountability at Vassar
Jasbir Puar, an associate professor at Rutgers University, recently appeared at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. During her Feb. 3 talk, she made a number of outlandish accusations that were recounted by Professor William A. Jacobson at his website, Legal Insurrection. Jacobson reported that “Puar’s appearance amounted to an...
In Israeli-Palestinian conflict, advocate says corruption is to blame
When it comes to advancing Palestinian human rights and rebuilding the relationship between Gaza and Israel, activist Bassem Eid believes only the Palestinian government is standing in the way. Born in Jordan-occupied Old Jerusalem, Eid has since founded the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group and travels across the world advocating...
Fighting Fire With Fire
Growing up in America, it is common for children’s shows to teach messages of sharing, kindness, and love. Terrorism? Not so much. In the Palestinian Authority controlled West Bank region, on the other hand, “death, not life, is the prime value” of popular children’s show Tomorrow’s Pioneers. The program, whose co-host Nassur boasts...
For Bassem Eid, Silence is not an Option
Returning home from a celebration in honor of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, the car carrying Eitam and Naama Henkin and their four children came under fire as it slowly made its way through the windy roads of the West Bank. Spotting the vehicle’s Israeli plates, Palestinian terrorists unleashed a volley of bullets...