Photo: Israel Defense Forces/Wikimedia Commons “Educator” Nimrod Evron and groups including King’s College London Action Palestine hosted a virtual discussion on Ethiopian Jews in Israel on July 5 to frame their experience as part of a “global struggle against racial injustice” recently publicized by the Black Lives Matter movement. The key speaker...
Corona Solidarity Means Little Without Erasing Our Double Standards
Photo: Glyn Baker/Wikimedia Commons Considering our campus sits less than 10 miles from Wimbledon, it is perhaps unsurprising that the summer tennis season has traditionally been popular with UCL students. Media coverage could at times be controversial. Perception of historic front-runner Andy Murray in the press often amounted to “When...
Revisiting York University Federation of Students’ Anti-Israel Discrimination
After a virulent and antisemitic riot organised by the YFS (York University Federation of Students) to intimidate and silence Jewish speakers on November 20, most Canadian politicians (and even university administrators) initially condemned the antisemitic riots. This includes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who called the riots violent and racist. Most...
“Pinkwashing”: A Very Colourful Conspiracy?
You’d be mistaken if you were under the impression that “Pinkwashing” describes the sort of accident that might happen when mixing the wrong items in the laundry. This term, in fact, describes Israel’s alleged, contrived strategy to conceal ongoing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind a false image of progress...
Yoseph Haddad Provides Important Arab Israeli Perspective to Aggies for Israel
If someone were to ask me what I believe is one of the most common misconceptions about Israel, it would unequivocally be homogeneity. Anti-Israel advocates on college campuses push this narrative because they argue Israel is an ethnic state of white Jewish Europeans who suppress the rights of any other...
Amidst a Sea of Secularism, God Returns to Gower Street
“What has Jerusalem to do with Athens?” wondered Tertullian in the 2nd Century AD. Holy water was worlds apart from the olive groves of philosophy and academe in the Roman Empire. And indeed UCL’s ancestry, Brougham, Campbell & Robinson, echoed Tertullian in Victorian England. Jeremy Bentham envisaged UCL as an...
Highlights: A Year in Review – 2019
"CAMERA welcomes the strengthened legal measures that will enable Jewish students to enjoy the same protections as others. It's important to note that the legal effort against campus antisemitism began in 2004 with a "Dear colleague letter" from the Office of Civil Rights, and was underscored in 2010 with another...
Apartheid Here, Apartheid There, Apartheid Truly Everywhere
“Up, up, down, down, right, left, and all around.” That is what supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) think when they think about Israel. Yet, Israeli-Arabs have served in the Israeli Supreme Court, Knesset (parliament), military, and national police force. Following the national elections in September 2019,...