Early in April, the conservative news website the Blaze reported on a lesson plan about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict geared towards high school students on PBS’ website. The lesson plan, titled, “Dying to be a Martyr,” includes video clips of interviews with three young Arab men who either committed terror bombings against Israelis or planned...
PBS Stands by “Dying to Be a Martyr” Curriculum (Part 2)
The Lesson Plan’s Written Materials The written materials present an extremely one-sided view of the conflict. The discussion of the UN’s proposed partition plan, for example, highlights the mass of land allocated to Jews and Arabs, but omits the fact that approximately 60 percentof the land allotted to the Jews was...
Melt Your Heart Out at RCC
Students at Rockland Community College came together last semester for an important cause: fundraising for Save a Child’s Heart, the Israeli charity that provides life-saving heart surgeries for children across the globe, regardless of country of origin or religion. CAMERA-supported group Friends of Israel at RCC hosted the event, dubbed...
The Story of Mustangs Israel Public Affairs Committee (MIPAC)
Samantha Dorenfeld, Tal Edelstein, Matthew Malsin, Leor Rozen and I didn’t know each other well in September of 2016, but we all had one thing in common; we love Israel. The five us formed Mustangs Israel Public Affairs Committee, or MIPAC as it became known to the pro-Israel community and...
WATCH: Seventh Annual Student Conference Exceeds Expectations – 2017
"This year's CAMERA Student Leadership Conference (video above) was a great success. 80 students from 13 different countries came together in Boston to learn from CAMERA's top-tier researchers and campus staff for six intensive days of training. CAMERA Fellows were treated to an exclusive Shabbaton event, where they delved deep...
Incredible Story of IDF Soldier Yonatan Handelsman
Imagine this, you are a young Israeli man serving in the IDF as a combat soldier. You are Jewish, your parents are Jewish, and you are a proud Zionist. Imagine then being told your great grandfather was a Nazi during World War II. Would you believe it? This is exactly the...
How Does Colombia Feel About Israel?
I was born and raised a proud Zionist. My parents, who grew up in Colombia, instilled in me a love for the Jewish state. I always believed in Israel’s right to exist, but it wasn’t until I started school at the University of Florida that I realized how much of...
Teen Magazine Promotes Conspiracy Theory from Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Affinity Magazine is a publication written by and for teenagers. Its Editor-in-Chief, Evelyn Woodsen, is nineteen, and its Senior Editor Alex Brown is in high school. Its website gets between 200,000 and 600,000 views per month, and it claims that it “serves a purpose of showcasing the voices of aspiring...