Contributed CAMERA Fellow Ali Jabick Last month, on April 1st, Sergeant Benjamin Anthony, founder of non-for-profit non-governmental organization Our Soldier Speaks, came to speak at the University of Connecticut. He began his presentation by sharing a traumatic experience from his childhood. One day, while walking to his Jewish school, Sergeant...
Anti-Semitism is Everywhere but Belongs Nowhere
Contributed by CAMERA Fellow Ali Jabick. Ali is the Fellow at the University of Connecticut. This piece was originally published in The Daily Campus on April 6th, 2015. I recently spoke to my friend who is currently studying abroad in London about her experiences. Due to anti-Semitic sentiment and violent attacks in Europe, she...
Our 2015 David Bar Illan Award winners
On Sunday a record 600-plus guests attended the annual Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) awards gala in New York City. CAMERA honored activists including student leaders, a retired professor, and an internationally known journalist for their work in supporting Israel and upholding news media integrity...
Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
Through a series of interviews, photograph and film montages, American directors Jonathan Gruber and Ari Daniel Pinchot tell the compelling story of Israeli military hero Yonatan Netanyahu. Gruber and Pinchot detail Yoni's whimsical love of the world throughout his childhood, and strong bond with younger brothers Bibi, the current Prime...
Divest from the PA Campaign at UNO
Our Emet for Israel group at the University of New Orleans, Allies of Israel, has launched a petition and poster campaign to tell students about corruption in the Palestinian Authority. Chloe Valdary, the president of the organization and a consultant for CAMERA, posted on her Facebook about the campaign on the...
Mahmoud Abbas Can’t be Considered a Moderate
This piece was contributed by Concordia University‘s 2014-2015 CAMERA Fellow, Bradley Martin. It has been republished in The Algemeiner. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recently marched with world leaders in Paris in a gesture of unity; just days after Islamic extremists slaughtered 17 people. While much of the Western world...
Witnesses of History: Marta
This piece was submitted by CAMERA 2014 Israel Trip participant, Marta Slobodyanyuk, as part of our Witnesses of History campaign. Marta is a student activist with CAMERA’s CCAP group at the University of Minnesota, Students Supporting Israel. The plane readied itself for arrival. I remember that feeling in my stomach....
CAMERA’s Israel Trip Recounted
By 2014 Israel Trip participant, Alexa Lazerow, Towson University To say it was an honor being a part of the CAMERA advocacy mission to Israel does not suffice. The trip honed in to me more than anything I have ever done before related to Israel what my duty and mission on this...