On January 20th, Michigan State University CAMERA Fellow Laela Saulson hosted an intensive training on how to find reliable and accurate reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the most effective process for editing and publishing Op-eds and letters to the editor. The CAMERA Fellowship is a wonderful opportunity to become a campus ambassador for the truth.

On January 18th, Huskies for Israel, a pro-Israel campus student group at Northeastern University who participates in the CAMERA on Campus Coalition program held a welcome back to campus event inviting students to an authentic Israeli-style dinner, fellowship and a brief presentation.

The foods and spices that enriched my childhood — malojahea, fasulia, labneh and za’atar — are unfamiliar to most of my Jewish peers at GW. Despite sharing common words and phrases, our prayer tunes hardly harmonize. And when I share my grandfather’s story, their eyes widen and jaws drop: a Jew from Egypt?

Exeter PhD candidate, Zarefah Baroud, has a history of using emotionally charged language and historical revisionism to demonise Israel.

It comes as no surprise that the same person who cheered Hamas’s massacre of Israelis on Oct. 7 and denounced Israel’s response, wrote an opinion piece for Al Jazeera in 2022 that relied on blatant historical distortions related to the 1948 war of Independence and the Palestinian Refugee crisis to argue that Israel is the cause of all Palestinian suffering.

It’s sad to hear that some of her family members perished during the current Hamas-initiated war. However, her reliance on the outright lies that Israel forcibly expelled all Arabs during the 1948 war and is now legally obligated to allow the return of their descendants essentially justifies modern Palestinian terrorism.

In recent years, UK universities’ student-led groups, such as the Palestine Society at SOAS, have clearly imposed dominating anti-Israel rhetoric, making it a normal standard for many more academic institutions around the country.

In 2020, the Universities of Oxford, Manchester, and Leeds were publicly shamed and condemned by various anti-Israel movements, claiming that their exchange programs with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are only funding and supporting a state whose actions are allegedly “contrary to international law”.

This is a direct step from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement towards the formation of less welcoming university campuses for Israeli, Jewish, and Zionist students. This organization, which over time, has proven its radical antisemitic nature, is the core of growing anti-Israel movements on university campuses all around the world.