The event held at Penn Law titled “Human Rights in Israel/ Palestine” was part of a week-long series of the school’s social justice action week. The two keynote speakers were Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch and Nadia Ben Youssef of Adallah. Given the title, one would expect the event...
November/December Events Report
November and December have been very active in programming on CAMERA- supported campuses. The large variety of events have allowed students to learn about different aspects of history, politics, and culture! Friends of Israel at Rockland Community College held the event, “Israel and The Middle East In The Age of...
August/September Events Report
On CAMERA- supported campuses, August and September have been months to “jump back in”. Different events across different campuses have allowed many students, faculty, and staff to connect and reconnect with other students within their community. Events such as tabling, general body meetings, and speaker held events allowed the different...
Highlights: A Year in Review – 2017
"In October, Campus Coordinator Ben Suster visited Rutgers campus to counsel the students of CAMERA-supported group Scarlet Knights for Israel and CAMERA Fellow Miriam Waghalter on how to respond to the news of Professor Michael Chikindas's antisemitic Facebook posts. Waghalter and Scarlet Knights for Israel fought hard at Rutgers to...
Could Trump Be Right on Jerusalem?
Contrary to dubious online suggestions, Einstein did not say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Nonetheless, there is some truth to this idea in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A certain orthodoxy in thought has brought...
India-Israel Growing Relationship: The Need for Political Inclusiveness
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to make an official visit to India in January next year- 2018. There is a high possibility that his visit coincides with India’s Republic Day celebration. Netanyahu will then become the first ever Israeli premier to attend this epic annual event of India as a chief guest. Western...
Harvard’s Sara Roy: All Hamas Needs is Love
Solving Gaza is simple. If Israel only wanted to, it could make Hamas disappear, its military wing evaporate, and its followers give up their claim to Jerusalem. That, at least, is what seems to pass for “smart” at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). In a London Review of...
President Trump’s Son-In-Law Jared Kushner Arrives in Israel
Jared Kushner, the husband of President Trump’s daughter Ivanka and a chief adviser to the president has arrived in Israel this week as speculation grows towards the resumption of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Trump has already sent his Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt to the region ahead of...