Recent incidents at the CUNY School of Law have been cause for enormous concern and doubt as to the school’s commitment to an inclusive, safe learning environment. In addition to a faculty council endorsement of the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign on May 12th, on the following day, CUNY...
This Is What a Zionist Looks Like
Newsletter – April 2022 This Is What a Zionist Looks Like On April 13th, CAMERA on Campus inaugurated the second iteration of its “This Is What a Zionist Looks Like” (TWZLL) campaign celebrating the history of the Zionist movement and honoring the minds and communities that contributed to the development...
Why the Harvard Crimson’s Call for BDS is Dead Wrong
The Harvard Crimson has published an anonymous statement by its Editorial Board in favor of the notorious Boycott, Divest and Sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel: In Support of Boycott, Divest, Sanctions and a Free Palestine. Despite the editorial’s portentous style, as a Harvard alumnus (GSAS 1987) I do feel it’s important to respond in an...
UMass Student Newspaper Spreads Lies About Israel and Defends Terrorism
Anti-Israel activists often draw unreasonable and overly simplistic comparisons between the Arab-Israeli conflict and social causes from police brutality to climate justice. Such conflations are often misleading and intellectually dishonest. A recent column in The Daily Collegian titled Palestinian Perspectives: The double standards of war by Ruya Hazeyen proved no...
Holocaust Inversion: Unmasking the False Comparisons of Palestinians to the Holocaust
On April 12, 1945, General Eisenhower visited Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Upon his return to the United States, he emphasized the importance of spreading the truth about the Holocaust: I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if...
ישראל לא לוקחת צד בסכסוך הקרקעות בשייח ג’ארח
ב- 21 בינואר מוחמד אל-כורד ביקר באוניברסיטת מינסוטה לשיחה עם 80 סטודנטים בהנחיית SJP (סטודנטים למען צדק בפלסטין). לראות את אל-כורד מתארח בקמפוסים אמריקאים בפורומים של ארגונים אנטי-ישראלים, או אפילו על ידי מחלקות לימודים של אוניברסיטאות הפך למראה שאנו רגילים לראות יותר ויותר. אז איך זה הפך לנורמה שפעיל פלסטיני...
SFSU Scholar’s Broken Promise to Professionalism
It’s ironic that Rabab Abdulhadi, the infamous San Francisco State University professor known for her anti-Israel-infused curriculum has recently accused her administration of being paid off by Zionist organizations to discriminate against her. This from the professor who has enjoyed little pushback in recent years from her colleagues or administration...
Why the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism Is Important on Campus
Progressive societies on UK university campuses often pride themselves on championing inclusivity and justice for all ethnic minorities. However, there is undoubtedly a different agenda when it comes to Jews and defining antisemitism. What arguably embodies this issue is the ‘debate’ over the IHRA definition of antisemitism, namely the opposition...