Photo: Alexander Clegg/Detroit Jewish News Linking Black Lives Matter to Israeli affairs is inaccurate and dishonest. On Oct. 8, the Jewish News online published an op-ed by IfNotNow Detroit activists Rebecca Driker-Ohren and Zak Witus titled “Palestinian Lives Matter.” Of course, Palestinian lives matter — that is not in dispute. What one can dispute is Driker-Ohren...
San Francisco State’s Ethnicities Department to Host Documented Palestinian Terrorist
San Francisco State University’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) is scheduled to host later this month a virtual conversation with a known Palestinian terrorist. Leila Khaled played a critical role in two airplane hijackings as a member of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of...
Bashing Opportunities to Study Hebrew in Israel
Photo: Philafrenzy/Wikimedia Commons This month it was revealed that the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) moved its “Hebrew Year Abroad” scheme from Hebrew University in Jerusalem to Haifa University. The University of West London has also severed ties with Hebrew U and is yet to announce a replacement Hebrew program....
Pro-Israel Campus Activism, Post-Covid-19
"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,...
Elon Student Project Offered Skewed Narrative of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Every year, Elon University celebrates the academic achievements of its students by highlighting some of the undergraduate research that has been painstakingly gathered, organized, and presented to its professors and student body. However, this year, the content of one project took me aback. The research offered by one student, a...
An Ambassador Inspires Students to Defend the Truth About Israel
Photo: Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Flickr In late May, CAMERA on Campus hosted then-Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev for an online event offered exclusively to students on campuses around the world. With almost two dozen student groups co-sponsoring from Canada, the US, the UK, and Israel, and students attending all the...
Virulent Antisemitism at Florida State, Defended by Students
A Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter has offered us yet another astounding defense of antisemitic vitriol—this time at Florida State University (FSU). After the school’s Student Senate president, Ahmad Daraldik, found himself in the hot seat due to his own past antisemitic social-media posts and shockingly antisemitic website, he took to Facebook to explain himself on...
Palestinian Prisoners Day Misleads Students Worldwide
This year’s Palestinian Prisoners Day (PPD) took place on April 17. Every year, activists use this occasion in an attempt to draw international attention to the hundreds of Palestinians arrested and detained annually by Israel in the West Bank. Yet much of this campaign is dominated by blatant inaccuracies and...