During COVID-19 self-isolation, like many others, I’ve been spending hours a day on social media. In particular, I’ve thoroughly explored the social media app TikTok — an app that has exploded in popularity in the last year. The app, which continuously streams curated 15 second to one-minute-long videos based on...
למה כדאי לכם ללמוד על יהדות המזרח התיכון ואפריקה
Photo: Zoltan Kluger/WikimediaCommons העם היהודי שרד מעשי זוועה רבים, מעבדות במצרים, לאינקוויזיציה הספרדית, לפרהוד בעיראק ולשואה. היסטוריה זו של מאבק מראה כי יש צורך לעמוד נגד שנאה ורוע. יהודים ילידי המזרח התיכון וצפון אפריקה (JIMENA) הוא ארגון עם משימה חשובה. ג’ימנה מעלה את המודעות למצוקתם של פליטים יהודים ומיעוטים אחרים...
אמריקה היא לא הלבנט
Photo: Alexander Clegg/Detroit Jewish News קישור תנועת “בלאק לייבס מאטר” (BLM) למדינת ישראל אינו מדויק ולא הגון. ב-8 באוקטובר פרסם העיתון Jewish News האינטרנטי מאמר דעה של פעילי איף נוט נאו (IfNotNow) דטרויט מאמר של רבקה דריקר-אורן וזק ויטוס שכותרתו “Palestinian lives matter”. כמובן שחיי פלסטיניים חשובים – זה דבר...
#Mizrahi Stories
Newsletter – October 2020 Join CAMERA on Campus’ #MizrahiStories Campaign Beginning November 1st, CAMERA on Campus will be launching our #MizrahiStories social media campaign, led by our social media fellows! Everyone who has a social media account is welcome to participate by completing this form. The campaign is geared towards university...
STATEMENT Regarding Recent Antisemitic Lecture Sponsored by Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
In response to Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning’s (AAP) October 5 event with Brown University professor Ariella Azoulay that featured brazen dehumanization of Jewish immigrants to pre-state Israel, our international campus director Aviva Rosenschein made the following statement: “Unfortunately, many US universities, including some of the most...
Continuing a One-Way ‘Conversation’
Photo: Cantavestrella/Wikimedia Commons The latest of the SOAS University of London “Continuing the Conversations” online events series—“U.S. and Palestine: Shoot to Kill Policies and Transnational Resistance”—offered a platform for activist and professor Noura Erakat of Rutgers University to provide a heavily biased account as opposed to facilitating a conversation over...
Lecturer Tells SOAS Event That Israel Deploys Legal ‘Logic’ set out by Nazi Jurist
Photo: Cantavestrella/Wikimedia Commons An American academic has claimed the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians follows a theory set out by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. Speaking at an online event at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) on 17 September, Professor Noura Erakat, an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University,...
Off-campus but in touch – 2020
Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, CAMERA held this year's student conference via Zoom, teaching students how to effectively combat anti-Israel and biased propaganda on college campuses and online. Unable to attend the typical five-day, in-person training session in Boston, more than 100 students from 66 universities in North America,...