As many returned to the university to meet their classmates and professors in-person after close to two years of online networking, CAMERA Fellows were there to help ease the transition for their peers, providing them an outlet to swiftly and easily get involved with pro-Israeli activity. Within the first weeks,...
Anti-Zionism is a theatrical performance of the all-or-nothing fallacy
In an age when social justice has developed into a herd mentality, anti-Zionists are victims of the All-Or-Nothing Fallacy — a false dilemma suggesting there are only two possible options when really there are many. While accusing the other side of perpetuating false information and pushing an agenda that hurts...
At a time of great political divide, it’s time to highlight one of Zionism’s most beautiful components: its diversity.
On campuses around the world, the word ‘Zionism’ has sadly become a trigger word. At a time when campus communities are putting a great emphasis on listening to minorities, letting them define terms related to their community, and making sure they are the only ones allowed to define hate against...
The Push to ‘Other’ the Identities of Israeli Jews
Photo: Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons When discussing the history of the establishment of Israel, a commonly parroted trope within anti-Israel and antisemitic circles is that the nation was founded by Jewish people who “colonized” the land and displaced more than 1 million Palestinians in 1948. This is an absurd and...
עלילת האפרטהייד היא תירוץ לפגיעה ביהודים
(תמונה: אלקסי רוזנפלד \ דובר צה”ל) ישראל אינה מדינת אפרטהייד בכל מובן המילה. האפרטהייד מתייחס למבנה החוקי, הפוליטי והחברתי של האפליה שהמיעוט הלבן של אזרחי דרום אפריקה הטיל על אזרחי דרום אפריקה השחורים והאסייתיים בין השנים 1948-1994. ביטול זכויות באמצעות הפרדה, אלימות, מאסר ודיכוי כללי של המיעוט הלא-לבן. משטר דיי...
Apartheid Libel is a Cover to Target Jews
Israel is not an apartheid state per any definition of the word. Apartheid refers to the legal, political and societal structure of discrimination that the white minority of South African citizens imposed on the black and Asian South African citizens from 1948 to 1994. Disenfranchisement was followed by segregation, violence,...
Pittsburgh Universities Must Adopt the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
Buried en masse and unmarked throughout Eastern and Western Europe, in Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem and everywhere in between lay the victims of history’s longest and most lethal hatred: antisemitism. The evidence of its wrath on the Jewish people is an exhaustive study leaving an indelible stain on society....
Is Social Media the Most Dangerous Weapon Against Israel?
In 2021, social media is a weapon; it has the power to politicize and the power to spread disinformation. And tens of thousands of students across the US — maybe more — have successfully used social media to find their anti-Israel voices over the past week. The situation between Israel...