At the University of East Anglia in Norwich, Jewish students on campus have faced discrimination. In May 2021 alone, Norwich was marred by antisemitic graffiti and slurs during anti-Zionist demonstrations. Jewish students were targeted for somehow being responsible for the actions of the Israeli government, and the UEA Student’s Union...
Press Release: CAMERA Prepares Students For The Fierce Battle Against Misinformation
BOSTON, August 4th, 2022 – For the first time in two years, students from universities across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Israel gathered in Boston, Massachusetts, for CAMERA’s 12th Annual International Student Leadership Conference (ISLC). An intensive four-day conference packed with trainings, exclusive briefings, and team-building exercises,...
Abraham Accords: Time to Change the Conversation on Campus
In 2020, the world witnessed the signing of the Abraham Accords. This agreement normalized relations between Israel and four Arab states: Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and later that year, Morocco and Sudan. In May 2022, I hosted Yoni Michanie, a researcher and lecturer at Northeastern University’s Department of Political Science,...
Israeli Students Are Experiencing Increased Anti-Israel Sentiment
On May 15th, 2022, CAMERA on Campus hosted an event with speaker Maurice Hirsch, Head Legal Strategist for Palestinian Media Watch at Hebrew University. As part of the event, Maurice described the historical aspects of how Arab leaders created the Palestinian narrative after 1948 that holds the Jewish state solely...
Anti-Israel Academics Attack the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism in Hate-Filled Webinar
On May 8, 2022, the Institute for Holocaust Studies, Genocide and Remembrance at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, posted a discussion on their official YouTube channel that contained unfounded allegations about the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Hosted and moderated by Alon Confino, chair of the Institute for Holocaust Studies...
BDS and the refusal to see antisemitism in UK Palestinian Societies
Earlier this term, KCL Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) co-hosted an event with 17 other Palestinian student societies across the UK featuring the co-founder of the anti-Israeli Boycott Sanction and Divest (BDS) campaign, Omar Barghouti. Barghouti co-founded the campaign in 2005. While BDS officially claims to oppose “anti-Jewish racism”, the...
Ben-Gurion University: A Campus Divided
As tensions rise all over Israel regarding the recent Nakba day protests and the death of Al- Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, Ben Gurion University is not immune to this turmoil. Students at Ben Gurion University were divided, on one side a sea of blue and white, and on the...
Statement: Yale Postdoc Association Responds to the Resource on Palestine
On June 6th, 2022, members of the Yale Postdoc Association (YPA) published the following statement in response to a flagrant endorsement of the discriminatory Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign by the Racial Justice Subcommittee of the YPA. CAMERA on Campus is proud to extend our support to members of the...