Since March, the Gazan border has played host to a series of violent demonstrations. Thousands of rioters, some of whom are armed with hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, and slingshots, regularly amass along the border. As a whole, major media outlets have failed to accurately and objectively cover the events of the...
Students Respond to Antisemitism at University of Michigan and Swarthmore College – 2018
"Some 20 students from the United Kingdom and Ireland participated in the first high-level training conference that prepares students to respond to campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism of its kind. The inaugural CAMERA on Campus UK Student Leadership Conference, which was held on Oct. 14 in London, placed a heavy...
Response to the Recent Anti-Semitic Incidents at Michigan
University of Michigan professor encourages bigotry Recently, John Cheney-Lippold, an associate professor in the American Culture Department at the University of Michigan, declined a student’s request for a recommendation letter for a study abroad program, with vocal support from multiple activists on campus. The reason? The student’s intention to study...
A Case of Anti-Semitism at Rutgers University
Editor’s Note: The US Department of Education recently reopened its investigation into a 2011 incident at Rutgers University in which Jewish students were discriminated against by an anti-Israel group on campus. With a new inquiry into this case, the Department has also adopted a sharper definition of anti-Semitism as adopted by...
UCLA’s Tango With Hate and Anti-Semitism
SJP’s National Conference demonizes students across the country who are supportive of Israel Students for Justice in Palestine will host its annual national conference in November at the University of California, Los Angeles. Despite the notoriously anti-Semitic rhetoric used by this group, UCLA will be directly facilitating the spreading of...
Student Group Claims Tufts’s Anti-Israel Class Violates Administrative Policy
CAMERA-supported Tufts Friends of Israel opposes anti-Israel course. A fall course at Tufts University violates guidelines by the school’s president, according to a statement issued by Tufts Friends of Israel, a pro-Israel student group on the college campus. Titled “Colonizing Palestine,” the course proposes to “explore the history and culture of modern Palestine...
The Forward Delegitimizes Pro-Israel Activism
According to the Forward, there is a shady cabal controlling the actions of the pro-Israel community. On August 2, the Forward published the first of what is now a series of two articles about “covert tactics targeting Israel’s critics,” by Josh Nathan-Kazis. (“A New Wave Of Hardline Anti-BDS Tactics Are...
As New Anti-Israel Threats Emerge, Students Get Crash Course on Changing Campus Environment
CAMERA’s conference teaches tools of activism, using words, facts, patience and plain-old courage to combat the scourge of anti-Israel sentiment on campus. For most college students, summer is an opportunity to travel, hang out with friends or land that exciting internship. But for more than 80 students from nearly 70...