Photo: John Marino/Wikimedia Commons Syracuse University’s Student Association (SA) claims that it is “false” and “dangerous” to associate anti-Zionism with antisemitism. This is simply untrue, because support for Zionism is support for the Jewish people’s right to self-determine in their ancestral homeland. Nevertheless, in a recent legislative session, the Syracuse SA...
To Avoid Future Scandals Like Karega, Oberlin Should Adopt the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
Photo: Wikimedia Commons At the end of January it was reported that Oberlin College Vice President and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo would be stepping down from that role at the end of the semester, and last Friday it was announced that she had left her post six weeks ahead...
Apartheid Week Exposed Campaign – Big Success!
Newsletter – March 2021 Happy Passover to all of our supporters! CAMERA on Campus is Hiring CAMERA’s campus department has an open position! One is based in our Boston office, one is based either in our Jerusalem or Boston office, and one is a part-time position based in the...
Ha’aretz Op-Ed Misleads to Defend SNL “Joke”
Photo: U.S. Secretary of Defense/Wikimedia Commons Satire is meant to be funny. Many popular, long-running comedy shows relentlessly caricature and mock almost every imaginable group. But there’s a difference between playing on a stereotype—as characters in “The Simpsons” do, for example—and accusing people of murder. Saturday Night Live (SNL) comedian...
The Libelous Claims on National SJP’s Panel
On February 19, 2021, the Institute for Policy Studies’ Middle East Fellow Khury Petersen-Smith and the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) organization shared their latest iteration of antisemitic libels and hypocrisy during “Freedom Intertwined: Organizing for Collective Liberation,” a virtual panel hosted by NSJP. The event framed Palestinian self-determination...
Jewish Populations are More Diverse Than Many Believe
The Farhud was a violent pogrom and massacre waged against the Jews of Iraq in 1941, in which about 180 Jews were murdered and many more injured. Raging during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, the Farhud was the climax of a creeping antisemitic zeitgeist — anti-Jewish graffiti such as, “Hitler...
Academic Antisemitism: In the Name of Palestine, Let’s Fail Some Jews
Photo: John D’Alembert/Wikimedia Commons Surprise, surprise: another case of academic discrimination against Jewish students. This time, the culprit is a chemistry teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University named Rasha Anayah. It seems her hatred for Israel has morphed into the potential abuse of her academic power. In late November, she posted a...
The Irony of Israel-Nazi Comparisons on College Campuses
Photo: German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons On a Spring day in 2018 during the March of Return riots, Palestinians at the Gaza border flew a swastika-emblazoned kite carrying a Molotov cocktail into Israel. From the black smoke of burning tires arose another swastika, only this time interposed between two Palestinian flags....