Newsletter – April 2021 CAMERA on Campus is proud to celebrate 73 years since the modern rebirth of the Jewish state! CAMERA on Campus is Hiring CAMERA’s campus department has two open positions! One is based in our Boston office, one is based either in our Jerusalem or Boston office. Whether...
Accusations of Israeli Vaccine Discrimination Aren’t True
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, Government Press Office (Israel)/Wikimedia Commons It seems like some people want to downplay Israeli success at all costs. Such is the case with Israel’s outstanding COVID-19 vaccination rollout. More than 60 percent of its population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. With this level of...
Jewish Voice for Peace and ‘Medical Apartheid’
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, Government Press Office (Israel)/Wikimedia Commons The Pittsburgh branch of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) recently circulated a petition that claims that Israel’s alleged refusal to vaccinate Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is “medical apartheid” — even though these Palestinians are not citizens of Israel and live...
Press Release: CAMERA on Campus Launches Zionism Campaign
For decades, Zionism – the belief in the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland – has been under attack. Although the United Nations Generally Assembly’s infamous 1975 resolution slurring Zionism as “racism” was later repealed, its hateful and fallacious presumptions live on, especially on college campuses. Student-run...
Exposing the Lies and Hate of the BDS Movement
In a conversation with American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) on March 31st Omar Barghouti appears to have charged Jews as thieves, settler colonialists, racists, purveyors of apartheid, ethnic cleansers, supremacists, and murderers — or at least the 95 percent of American Jews who support Israel. Barghouti is one of the leaders of...
The Truth About Israel’s ‘Vaccine Apartheid’
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, Government Press Office (Israel)/Wikimedia Commons A recent Lawyers Without Borders blogpost on UCL Reflect supports allegations of “vaccine apartheid” against Israel, claiming that Israel has a legal obligation to vaccinate Palestinian citizens in Gaza and the West Bank. At the time of writing this article, requests...
IHRA Resolution and Defining Antisemitism
Every year, when Jews around the world observe Purim, they finish the Megillah and celebrate that the Jews of ancient Persia were saved. The story of Purim is unique among Jewish stories because the Persian Jews’ salvation came by way of human initiative — through the relentless efforts of Mordechai...
Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: Antisemitism Is Inherent to SJP Activism
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel/Wikimedia Commons On February 26th, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Brown University hosted an event featuring speakers who discussed Palestinian activism. Unsurprisingly, it was an exercise in antisemitic rhetoric and argumentation, including hateful tropes such as, “These attacks on capital, on money are what scares them [Israelis,...