Newsletter – January/February 2021 CAMERA on Campus is Hiring CAMERA’s campus department has three open positions! One based in our Boston office, one based either in our Jerusalem or Boston office and a part-time position based within the UK. Whether you are enrolled in university, have recently graduated, or...
Witnesses Dispute Claims Made by Breaking the Silence’s Joel Carmel
Photo: Oren Rozen/Wikimedia Commons “Everyone was against us. Everything in the MSM [mainstream media] was anti-Israel, and we had a responsibility to show the other side,’” Joel Carmel, a former Israel Defense Forces soldier and now English content coordinator for the Breaking the Silence NGO, said of the zeitgeist characterizing...
An open letter to the participants who left their Birthright trip
These young adults affiliated with IfNotNow chose to feign ignorance. I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I am hesitant to engage with you because a response would give your rhetoric a degree of legitimacy. On the other hand, your rhetoric is so presumptive and your intentions for participating on this...
Amanda Berman and Shai Deluca-Tamasi to Speak at Annual Student Leadership Conference – 2018
"Amanda Berman is an attorney and the Director of Legal Affairs at The Lawfare Project and president and co-founder of the Zioness Movement, a coalition of activists and allies who express their Zionist and progressive values through collective action. For Amanda, Zionism is a progressive value, and believes that we...
When did ‘pro-Israel’ become a bad word?
Sarah Wishingrad’s recent Daily article regarding communal attitudes towards Taglit-Birthright trips to Israel features a quote from Michaela Ben Izzy, who claimed, “Birthright is pro-Israeli by nature.” My response — so what? Seeing as one of Taglit-Birthright’s stated goals is to “diminish the growing division between Israel and Jewish communities,” Ben...
The Vital Role of Dialogue on Campus: A Reflection on Recent Events
Nearly 13 months after October 7, 2023, and amid the ongoing Gaza war, I find myself increasingly concerned about the lack of open discourse, particularly among those who identify as anti-Zionist on our campuses. Many of the people who oppose Israel’s existence simply don’t know or understand the history, and...
Campus Radicalization: How Extremist Narratives Target New Students on UK Campuses
Anti-Israel sentiment on UK university campuses is steadily growing, leading to a troubling trend of student radicalization. Pro-Palestinian student societies across the UK generally claim to promote social justice, but they often use emotionally charged messaging and historical distortions to manipulate impressionable new students into accepting radical narratives. Having met...
How Anti-Israel Student Groups’ Flawed Demands Threaten Jewish Students on UK Campuses
There has been an undeniable rise of antisemitism on UK college campuses since the October 7 massacre. The Community Security Trust (CST) recorded a 465% increase in university-related antisemitic incidents during the first half of 2024. This has been driven by anti-Israel student groups and networks that have coordinated campaigns...