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Newsletter | February 2026
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Get the Facts. Get Israel
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Hello friends,
February marked this year’s launch of CAMERA’s annual Apartheid Week Exposed Campaign. This year focused on opening a dialogue between Iranian and Israeli perspectives through our “Welcome to Our Living Room” tabling with Israel-Is.
Our Fellowship and Coalition Group Applications are both open! The deadline to apply is May 1st. Click here or scroll below to learn more!
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2026-2027 Fellowship Application is open!
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Our 2026-2027 Fellowship Application is officially open! Our program offers the opportunity to expose dishonesty and support Israel on your campus with a team of advisors and researchers behind you. Join students from around the world to receive an exclusive invitation to our annual International Student Leadership Conference in Boston and earn a generous stipend after our year-long professional development program. Click below to apply!
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Apply to Join the CAMERA on Campus Coalition
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The CAMERA Coalition provides educational and financial resources for student leaders who want to either create a new pro-Israel group on campus or strengthen their existing, but underfunded group.
CAMERA provides guidance and extensive resources to help you build an effective and independent Israel group on campus. Members of the CAMERA Coalition learn life-long skills in debate, writing, and public speaking, and benefit from close collaboration with our campus team of advisors and CAMERA researchers. |
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PRESS RELEASE: CAMERA Launches Global ‘Apartheid Week Exposed’ Campaign
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The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) is launching its sixth annual Apartheid Week Exposed (AWE) campaign on college and university campuses, from March 2 through April 3. While lively debate is part and parcel of campus life, our campaign elevates the conversation by shining a light on the false history, distorted terminology, and canards against Israelis and Zionists that national organizations direct their antizionist activists to spread throughout this month.
What is Israel Apartheid Week? IAW is a series of campus events typically organized by antizionist student groups and activist networks in February or March each year. First launched in 2005 at the University of Toronto, it has spread across North America, South Africa, Australia, and the UK.
Their campaign targets Jewish, Zionist, and Israeli students through events, speakers, promotional materials, and demonstrations. An IAW staple is a mock “apartheid wall” on university quads, often featuring gross misinformation and maliciously bigoted rhetoric.
A strong correlation has been observed between the presence of activist groups like Students for Justice in Palestine who lead IAW campaigns and a higher frequency of reported antisemitic incidents targeting Jews. This reflects a simple truth: demonizing Zionism leads to Jews being harmed.
Our AWE website, available in both English and Hebrew, is populated with updated resources tailored toward debunking common narratives in antizionist discourse on campus. Rather than encouraging fruitless confrontations, we want to equip students with the confidence and knowledge to engage calmly and constructively.
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We are proud to highlight Sabrina Soffer, a former fellow at George Washington University, whose work continues to make an impact in journalism, research, and advocacy.
During her time on campus, Sabrina was a highly active student leader who spoke openly about the challenges facing Jewish students in academia. Her experiences at GW led her to examine what she describes as the deeper roots of campus antisemitism and how it can become embedded in academic culture. In an effort to improve the environment for future students, she later testified before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, sharing her experiences and advocating for stronger protections against antisemitism and bias on campus.
Today, Sabrina continues this work as a Research and Diplomacy Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, where she contributes research and participates in policy discussions related to antisemitism, diplomacy, and international affairs. She also moderates podcast conversations on current geopolitical issues and Jewish affairs.
In addition, Sabrina is currently co-writing a forthcoming book, Of Good Courage: Israel and the West’s Fight for Moral Clarity, with Ambassador Dr Yechiel (Michael) Leiter, bringing together insights on Israel, Jewish identity, and the challenges facing the Jewish world today.
Sabrina has shared that her time as a CAMERA on Campus fellow played an important role in shaping her path. The fellowship helped strengthen her writing and advocacy skills while encouraging the kind of intellectual courage needed to stand up for Jewish students and speak out against misinformation.
We are proud to count Sabrina among our alumni and look forward to seeing how her work continues to influence conversations on campuses, in policy circles, and beyond.
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Julia Weinstein is a student at the University of Central Florida and a 2025-2026 CAMERA Fellow.
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Bearing Witness: Why Holocaust Remembrance Must Be More Than a Date on the Calendar
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Holocaust Remembrance Day is not only about remembering the past; it is about ensuring that memory remains real, personal, and meaningful in the present. As survivors age and firsthand testimony become less accessible , the responsibility to bear witness increasingly falls to younger generations. On college campuses, where historical memory often competes with fast-moving headlines and political slogans, that responsibility matters more than ever.
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Naomi Strupinsky is a student at Rutgers University, and a 2025-2026 CAMERA Fellow.
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Wear that Magen David Necklace You Bought at the Shuk — It’s Important
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Inherent to understanding fashion is understanding people: politics, economics, power and the historical cycles we unknowingly repeat. Style has always responded to crisis, conflict and cultural anxiety. When Jewish students began wearing visible symbols of identity after Oct. 7, I didn’t see a trend, I saw communication.
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Lily Karofsky is a fourth-year Communications and Journalism major at UC Santa Barbara, and a 2025-2026 CAMERA fellow.
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Peace as a Litmus Test For Zionism
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As a result of ongoing conflict surrounding Israel, the concept of “Zionism” is constantly being defined and redefined to fit different agendas. Although peaceful realization has long been an important aspiration, as it is for any project of national self-determination, Zionism does not demand blind faith in peace with those who violently deny Jewish indigenous rights, nor an unconditional commitment to political arrangements detached from conditions on the grounds.
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Jamie O’Mahony is the founder of Ireland’s only Zionist student organization, a branch of Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at Dublin City University. He is a CAMERA fellow for 2025-26.
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Ireland risks US relationship over its anti-Israel obsession
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As Irish Taoiseach Michéal Martin prepares for his annual St Patrick’s Day visit to the White House, his government remains committed to passing sanctions against Israel – arguably America’s most important military ally at a moment when Washington and Jerusalem are jointly confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran. The timing could hardly be worse. With Congress and the administration fiercely opposed to such policies, Ireland appears willing to risk vital diplomatic and economic interests to indulge its irrational obsession with the Jewish state.
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Leon Silver is a 2025-2026 CAMERA On Campus Fellow studying at the University of Birmingham.
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Keep Football Out of Politics
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On the 6th of November 2025, English football side Aston Villa faced off against Maccabi Tel Aviv in a UEFA Europa League Match. West Midlands police banned Israeli and Jewish supporters from attending the game, with the police claiming that the community surrounding the stadium wasn’t safe for fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv. Local politicians later admitted in January of 2026 that Jewish and Zionist fans would be targeted if they attended the game, and there was pressure from the Muslim community to call off the game entirely.
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Amichai Greenberg is a student at Yeshiva University and a 2025-2026 CAMERA fellow.
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Token Jews Don’t Speak for Us
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Antizionist organizations and activists often amplify Jewish voices on their side to give the appearance that they cannot be antisemitic. Token antizionist Jews are often used to sideline Zionist Jews’ concerns about the rise of antisemitism related to antizionism.
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Georgia L. Gilholy is a member of the Communications Team at CAMERA.
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Apartheid Week Exposed: Combating a Vicious Anti-Israel Lie on Campus
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On a sundrenched corner of coastline, a light breeze dances across the blue waves. But what seems pleasant at the surface, ideal even, is hardly the full story. To the side, a metal sign reads: “Under Section 37 of the Durban Beach by-laws, this bathing area is reserved for the sole use of members of the white race group.” The city is Durban, the third-most populous city in South Africa, and this scene was commonplace under its erstwhile apartheid regime. “Apartheid,” Afrikaans for “separateness,” was a brutal system of legally enforced racial segregation that dominated Africa’s southernmost nation until being finally abolished in 1994.
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Apply to Join our Campus Team
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Join a fast-growing team where early-career professionals are empowered to lead, learn, and grow. At CAMERA, you’ll gain hands-on experience in organizing, media engagement, and leadership development, while playing a crucial role in the fight against misinformation about Israel.
We’re not just offering a job, we’re offering a meaningful career path for passionate individuals ready to shape public discourse and support the next generation of pro-Israel student leaders.
US Campus Advisor
CAMERA seeks a full-time Campus Advisor to join its growing team of young professionals providing support and guidance to students interested in activism supporting Israel or countering anti-Jewish and anti-Israel voices and forces on campus.
Join the university and college-focused department at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis. Founded in 1982, we are a secular and non-partisan non-profit that strives to correct misinformation in mainstream media.
The Campus Advisor will oversee CAMERA Fellows on campuses in the United States. This includes helping them to organize educational events on campus and to write op-eds for various news outlets.
Advisors are trained to help develop and implement effective measures to expand CAMERA’s campus presence. The position will be based in our Boston office.
Requirements for the position include:
- 1-3 years of relevant campus experience.
- Excellent writing/editing skills.
- Strong event planning skills.
- Strong skills in communications, interpersonal relations, and organization which will be used to mentor students on dozens of university campuses.
- Strong knowledge of history and politics as it relates to the Middle East, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Fluency in English.
Video editing and graphic design skills are a plus.
Salary and Benefits: The salary is competitive and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applicants should send their CV, cover letter, and a writing sample to hali@camera.org.
We do not accept inqueries by phone. |
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Announcing: CAMERA Alumni Affairs Program
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The CAMERA Alumni Affairs program bridges past fellows and coalition members with our mission, helping alumni stay informed, connected, and activated as lifelong stakeholders. Our goal is to foster a strong alumni network that supports our Israel engagement work on campus and beyond.
The Alumni Affairs program is here to make sure that your connection to CAMERA doesn’t end — it evolves. We want to help our alumni stay informed, connected, and empowered as lifelong stakeholders in CAMERA’s mission.
After graduation, we’re still here for you: sharing updates, inviting you to alumni events, connecting you with job opportunities, and giving you meaningful ways to stay involved in Israel activism. We want to be part of that next chapter.
So whether you’re just starting your CAMERA journey or preparing to graduate, know this: your story with us is just beginning. And we’re here to help guide what comes next.
Alumni aren’t our past — they’re our future. And this new program ensures you stay involved, inspired, and invested for years to come with CAMERA
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Your support is vital to the success of these efforts. Together, we can continue building a stronger and more informed community, one that refuses to allow prejudice or ignorance to dominate the narrative.
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Our team continues to work tirelessly with students across campuses worldwide, equipping them with the knowledge and resources needed to promote truth and advocate effectively for Israel. We also provide critical reviews of Israel-related books and films, offer educational materials, and run programs tailored to empower university communities.
If you would like to get involved or learn more about our efforts, please do not hesitate to reach out. Together, we can continue to build a culture of respect, understanding, and truthful conversation.
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