"The sought-after one-year CAMERA Fellowship is offered on a highly selective basis. Participants in our Fellows program are leaders on campus, proactively spreading the truth about Israel to fellow students, professors, and the media. Upon completion, Fellows earn $1000/750 euros. CAMERA Fellows attend our all-expenses-paid Student Leadership Conference in Boston...
Blind Spots Highlight UPenn Human Rights Event
The event held at Penn Law titled “Human Rights in Israel/ Palestine” was part of a week-long series of the school’s social justice action week. The two keynote speakers were Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch and Nadia Ben Youssef of Adallah. Given the title, one would expect the event...
Being openly pro-Israel on campus shouldn’t impact your identity
Unfortunately, being openly pro-Israel on college campuses seems to come with a social cost. For every statement reflecting well on the Jewish state, two criticisms emerge calling Israel racist, sexist and any other number of –isms. This is seen nowhere better than at GW, where Israeli Apartheid Week is in full swing...
The Child Soldiers of Palestine
“We collectively continue failing to stop the war on children,” said the UNICEF Regional Director of the Middle East and Africa in February. “The protection of children is paramount under all circumstances.” In contrast to this view, last week, Zainab Iqbal, Managing Editor of the Excelsior, published “Ahed Tamimi is...
Israeli Food is From All Over. That Doesn’t Make it Any Less Israeli.
In his article entitled “Jewish food tells the story of immigrants, not of Israeli nationalism,” visual artist and food researcher, Rafram Chaddad offers his take on Tablet Magazine’s list of the 100 Most Jewish Foods. Included in the list were staples like Challah and brisket as well as a few...
February and March Events Update
February and March have been busy for many CAMERA-supported groups. Events sponsored by CAMERA on Campus had a variety of speakers and topics and were well attended! Glasgow University Israel & Middle East Forum hosted their event, “Israel & Geopolitics with Eylon Levy”. Eylon Levy is an i24NEWS anchor and...
India-Israel Bilateral Agreements to Boost Indian Higher Education Sector
India and Israel’s bilateral cooperation is likely to boost collaboration between in the field of higher education and research observes Hriday Ch Sarma for Elets News Network (ENN). At present, India and Israel are enhancing their political and economic allies. The cooperation between them is steadfastly increasing not only in the area of...
Visiting Ramallah
This past July, at the peak of another sweltering Israeli summer, I hopped onto bus 218 from Jerusalem to Ramallah, the primary Palestinian-Arab city in area A of Judea and Samaria, more commonly known as the West Bank. 45 minutes and one security checkpoint later, the rolling hills of Jerusalem,...