For the morally confused, the chasm between good and evil is best crossed by a well- constructed abstraction. Hence, the systematic murder of six million Jews becomes ‘the final solution`. Hence, the murder of innocent civilians is too often written off as “resistance“ and terrorists branded as “freedom fighters” by...
Campuses Have Become Breeding Ground for Hate
As a new school year begins, the familiar chill of malicious, unbridled anti-Semitism is being felt by Jewish university students across the country. Today, a university student’s intellectualism and tolerance are gauged by the ferocity of his or her Israel hatred. To be a humanitarian, you must deny the humanity...
Imagine There’s No Countries
Recently, it seems that there has been an interesting question reverberating through the walls of the American Jewish Zionist community: Are anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism the same thing? In stereotypical Jewish fashion, in a room of ten people, there are likely to be at least eleven answers to this question. And...
Day 3 Of The Israel Trip: Speakers and Spokespeople
The third full day of the Israel trip started with a meeting with Professor Gil Troy, a Shalom Hartman Research Fellow and author of Why I am a Zionist, who discussed how to portray Israel on campuses and how to tell the difference between legitimate criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism....
Day 2 Of The Israel Trip: Mark Regev, Israel Kimhi and Michael Leitner
The second day of the Israel trip included speakers such as Mark Regev, the International Spokesperson for the Prime Minister, Israel Kimhi, a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Israeli Studies, and Professor Michael Leitner. Additionally, students had a chance to take a tour of Neve Daniel in Gush...
Tel Aviv Pride: Blackmail or Celebration?
By CAMERA intern Shoshana Kranish Back in June, Tel Aviv celebrated its 18th Pride Parade, the end to a week-long celebration filled with parties and beautiful people—Israeli and foreign, gay and straight. While the numbers are not exact, it is estimated that upwards of 200,000 people attended this year’s event,...
The latest from our 2015 Student Mission to Israel
Contributed by CAMERA Fellow Allison Moldoff. The CAMERA Israel Advocacy and Leadership Mission to Israel is three days underway, and I must admit that it has been absolutely incredible so far! As a student and a Zionist, I have had opportunities to meet more influential speakers than I could have...
2015-2016 Fellows
Back to Fellows Main Fellows Binghamton University Joshua Seed is a senior at Binghamton University double majoring in Urban & Regional Planning and Judaic Studies. A graduate of TanenbaumCHAT in Toronto, he is deeply devoted to the principles of Judaism and Zionism, currently serving as the President of Bearcats for...
