Upcoming: CAMERA’s 10th Annual Student Leadership Conference 

Though it will be different than in past years, having to be held online due to Covid-19, judging by the number of students who will be attending, excitement for the conference has not waned. At least one hundred students from around the world—from universities in the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, and the United States—will log on to the CAMERA conference.

The students will hear from many notable scholars and speakers, such as: George Mason Law Professor Eugene Konotorovitch; Maccabee Task Force Executive Director David Brog; South African Human Rights Activist Olga Meshoe Washington; and CAMERA’s Executive Director Andrea Levin, among others.

The students will be discussing many of the most pressing issues now facing Zionist campus activists, including the legality of Israel applying sovereignty to parts of the West Bank; the relationship between Zionism and the fight against anti-Black racism; the best answers to common myths and misinformation about Israel; and skills and tips for handling social media, online events, and campus recruitment during the coronavirus pandemic, among other topics.   

Watch: Israelis, Palestinians,

How We Got Here and What the Future Holds

On July 22nd, CAMERA’s Campus Managing Editor Zach Schildcrout moderated a fascinating conversation with journalist Haviv Gur on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how it has shaped the current political arena.

Please click here to view the entire conversation.

Incitement? Hatred? Look No Further than Israeli Campuses

Student Instagram Pages Broadcast Antisemitic Beliefs 

“A June 19 post on the @BIPOC.Syracuse page stated ‘There are professors at SU who are openly Zionist to the point that it hurts Palestinian students…This shit runs deep.’ This set off an anti-Semitic witch hunt targeting Miriam Elman, a Jewish faculty member at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs who was also mentioned in a @BlackatCuse post on June 20.

Despite being on leave for the past year, Elman was singled out by a malicious and libelous smear campaign for her support of Jewish self-determination and prior service in the Israeli Defense Forces.

The heinous anti-Semitic insults directed at Elman send a clear message: shed your Zionist identity or get canceled. It reeks of pure McCarthyism.”  Read more 
Read more here for the expanded version.

Elon University Student Project Offered Skewed

Narrative of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 

From Radical Islam to Zionism

“It was evident from the outset of the meeting that Evron was out to dismiss the reality of Israeli society so as to frame it as a devious colonial enterprise. He guided the discussion with statements such as ‘Israel is a white, European culture’ and ‘Israel is a white-supremacist society.’ This shouldn’t come as a surprise since Evron is the facilitator of the ‘Occupation 101 Course‘ that boasts that it does not aim to be ‘balanced’ or ‘equal’ to ‘both sides’ in its history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.”  Read more

“For example, on Jan. 7, 2020, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace Lara Friedman tweeted that the Trump administration’s recent executive order extending protections to Jews under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (Title VI/CRA) was actually drafted to ‘target … campus free speech critical of Israel.’ Her subsequent thread is a compilation of news articles, op-eds, briefs from legal institutes and congressional letters to the Department of Education that supposedly validate her claim that our freedoms are under attack. Notably, one of the congressional letters that Friedman links to alleges Title VI/HEA violations, not discrimination in violation of Title VI/CRA and the executive order. She confuses two entirely different statutes.

But that’s beside the point. The important takeaway is this: Schools found to be in violation of Title VI/HEA and/or Title VI/CRA are at risk of losing federal funding, not their right to speak freely. A professor wants to advocate for the BDS movement? Fine, but efforts to implement those policies at an institutional level, or to predominantly teach one-sided narratives within a Title VI/HEA-funded department are likely antithetical to the law’s provisions.”  Read More