"Reut Baer, a forceful advocate for Israel on the campus of Cornell University, began her activism at the end of her freshman year, when she helped defeat a BDS resolution in the Student Assembly. In her sophomore year, she became a CAMERA Fellow and served as Chair of Advocacy for...
In Israeli-Palestinian conflict, advocate says corruption is to blame
When it comes to advancing Palestinian human rights and rebuilding the relationship between Gaza and Israel, activist Bassem Eid believes only the Palestinian government is standing in the way. Born in Jordan-occupied Old Jerusalem, Eid has since founded the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group and travels across the world advocating...
Fighting Fire With Fire
Growing up in America, it is common for children’s shows to teach messages of sharing, kindness, and love. Terrorism? Not so much. In the Palestinian Authority controlled West Bank region, on the other hand, “death, not life, is the prime value” of popular children’s show Tomorrow’s Pioneers. The program, whose co-host Nassur boasts...
The Man Behind the Incitement
Recently, at his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas, President of the PLO, opened his speech ‘raising the alarm’ to the world as to his version of the facts on the ground as they stand in relation to the most disputed piece of real estate in the...
#IsraeliLivesMatter
Rewind to one year and five months ago. Saturday night in Jerusalem, as I remember it from living in the city, is a time of reawakening. The city gently wakes up from the rest of the Jewish holy day, Shabbat, and shops reopen, people traverse the country to return to...
BBC Blur, a Stirring Reality
First thing in the morning, we, the participants on CAMERA’s Annual Leadership and Advocacy Training Mission to Israel departed our hotel to Kfar Haruv, a kibbutz located in the southern Golan Heights to meet Hadar Sela, the managing director of BBC Watch. Before hearing from Sela, we were entranced by the...
Day 1 Of The Israel Trip: CAMERA Office and Knesset
CAMERAonCampus students just finished CAMERA’s annual Student Leadership Training Mission to Israel. This is an annual 10 day trip that takes CAMERA students to Israel to experience all that Israel has to offer, meet with incredibly knowledgeable and talented speakers, and visit places in Israel to discuss the challenges facing...
French Jews Are No Longer Safe
Contributed by CAMERA fellow David Enav Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe, and the French Republic has felt it the most. France is a country well known for its royalty, art, and pursuit of democracy. This winter, France has been synonymous with terrorism as a result of the rise...