Contributed by Lindsay Hurwitz, our CAMERA Fellow at the University of Michigan. This piece was republished in the Algemeiner. In honor of the recent Jewish holiday of Passover, I found myself reminiscing about the oppression of the Jewish people in Egypt thousands of years ago. I then considered a more modern representation...
This Pro-Israel Student Leader lets Alan Dershowitz ‘sleep at night’
Conrtibuted by Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org Justin Hayet (second from left) with famed attorney Alan Dershowitz (third from left). Credit: Courtesy Justin Hayet. Jewish organizations and leaders have been racking their brains trying to address the issue of skyrocketing anti-Semitism on college campuses. But at least one prominent pro-Israel activist is reassured...
Applications are Now Open for the CAMERA Fellowship
Each year, a select number of outstanding student activists are selected as CAMERA Fellows for its premier leadership development program and are awarded a $1000 stipend. Apply today! Their fellowship year begins with an in-depth, four day training seminar that offers skill building for campus activism. This includes programs for...
Divest from the PA Campaign at UNO
Our Emet for Israel group at the University of New Orleans, Allies of Israel, has launched a petition and poster campaign to tell students about corruption in the Palestinian Authority. Chloe Valdary, the president of the organization and a consultant for CAMERA, posted on her Facebook about the campaign on the...
Semester in Review: Brooklyn College
The Israel Club at Brooklyn College hosted Brooke Goldstein, a New York City-based human rights attorney, author, and award-winning filmmaker, for a discussion examining human rights issues in the Middle East with a focus on children in the West Bank and Gaza. The kickoff event, cosponsored by CAMERA and The Brooklyn College Chapter...
Teaching Protest at the 92 St Y
By Chloe Valdary This past Thursday, the groundbreaking documentary Crossing the Line 2 premiered at the 92st Y in New York. The film, produced by Jerusalem U, provided an in-depth look at the spread of the rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses, the vitriol of organizations like Students for Justice...
Students Supporting Israel at IU Hosts Anat Berko
In late October, our Emet for Israel organization, Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at Indiana University, held an event titled Inside the Mind of a Terrorist. The student group invited Anat Berko, author of The Smarter Bomb: Women and Children as Suicide Bombers, to speak about her personal conversations with women and...
Mahmoud Abbas Can’t be Considered a Moderate
This piece was contributed by Concordia University‘s 2014-2015 CAMERA Fellow, Bradley Martin. It has been republished in The Algemeiner. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recently marched with world leaders in Paris in a gesture of unity; just days after Islamic extremists slaughtered 17 people. While much of the Western world...