"A number of sessions at the conference were led by CAMERA campus staff to develop solidarity and bonding among students. 'Students are dealing with a lot of difficulties on campus,' said Hali Haber, director of campus programming and strategic relationships, told JNS. 'This conference enables students to meet other people...
At Summer Conference, Pro-Israel Students Learn Tools to Respond to Hostile Campus Environment
Universities have long been one of the toughest environments for pro-Israel students. They have battled stilted curriculums when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more recently, grappled with on-campus pressure in the face of growing BDS activity. Combined with a general uptick in anti-Semitism, including the deadly shootings in...
Enshrined Anti-Zionism at San Francisco State University and Many US Campuses
Recently, as reported by The Algemeiner, dozens of organizations petitioned the chancellor of the California State University system in response to San Francisco State University (SFSU) professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s use of the university’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies (AMED) Facebook page to spread antisemitic propaganda. This concern is more than justified. As the...
Middle East Studies at UT-Austin: Biased Professors, Politicized Classrooms
Contributed by Islamist Watch Writing Fellow for the Middle East Forum Benjamin Baird and director of academic affairs and director of Campus Watch at the Middle East Forum Winfield Myers. The University of Texas at Austin (UT) boasts a large and, at first glance, thriving Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
The Complexity of Jewish Opinions
It is no secret that young Jewish Americans are opinionated and passionate about the State of Israel. With Israel groups on college campuses and majors dedicated to studying Israel and the Middle East, it is easy to actively engage with the conversation. Jewish Americans are taking this interest further and...
Israel Gets Red-Carpet Treatment in New York City
“…CAMERA empowers readers, students, academics, politicians, business leaders and the general public to address these distortions in reporting about the Middle East, and to defend Israel against egregious accusations and harmful inaccuracies in the media.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Some 500 supporters of Israel gathered in New York City...
Outstanding Students Awarded at CAMERA Gala 2019
Two outstanding CAMERA on Campus fellows were honored at our annual gala on June 2nd, 2019. Maynooth University Fellow Daniel O’Dowd received the David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Student Leadership, and Swarthmore College Fellow Matthew Stein received the David Bar-Illan Award for Outstanding Campus Activism. Both students faced especially grueling...
Postmodernism and Israel: Fluidity of Words Has Real-World Implications
The debate as to whether anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism has been used to pummel Israel supporters into submission by claiming that criticism towards Israel is merely the former, even when the criticism transgresses all parameters of acceptable critique and veers into the territory of bigotry. Likewise, the phenomenon...