November 19 saw a virtual gathering of notable Jew-haters and terrorist apologists to discuss “resistance across borders.” The webinar was purportedly a response to Israel’s terrorist designation of six “nonprofits” linked to the U.S.-designated Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a leftist Palestinian terror group known for hijacking...
STATEMENT: CAMERA on Campus on November ’21 Actions of Vassar Students for Justice in Palestine
“On November 3rd, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Vassar College distributed posters utilizing age-old antisemitic tropes to promote Eli Valley’s event, “Drawing the Dystopia: On Non-Zionist Jewish Art and Politics.” We are appalled by SJP’s recent attempt at an apology in The Miscellany News, an underhanded response alleging...
The Significance of Adopting the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
This fall, my hometown of Great Neck, New York was one of several Long Island communities that adopted the working IHRA definition of antisemitism. With a concerning rise in antisemitic incidents in cities across the United States and university campuses, the IHRA definition is an incredibly useful tool to help...
The Guardian Palsplains antisemitism
For the third time in two years, the Guardian published a letter (“If we endorse the IHRA definition of antisemitism we put at risk Australia’s academic freedom”, Oct. 29) by a Palestinian group complaining that a widely accepted antisemitism definition designed to protect Jews represents a form of oppression against...
Welcome Back with CAMERA on Campus
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...