The CAMERA on Campus Team and Students End 2023 In Strength! Silent Suffering: The Alarming Surge of Antisemitism in UK Higher Education 2023-2024 CAMERA Fellow Rojin-Sena Cantay on the campus of the University of Exeter. Rojin-Sena has been vocal about confronting rising campus antisemitism at Exeter. (Image Credit: Telegraph.co.uk)...
Are Protests on College Campuses “Independent of the Hamas Party Line”?
When the current war between Israel and Gaza is over and the reporting of it is reviewed and judged, this sentence written by Graeme Wood in The Atlantic will rank among the silliest written: Those on U.S. college campuses and in European capitals calling for a cease-fire are demonstrating their admirable independence...
Anti-Israel Crybullies and the Free Speech Inversion
The term “crybully” rose to prominence over the last decade, and describes a phenomenon that has become increasingly common on campus. As defined at Dictionary.com, a crybully is “a person who self-righteously harasses or intimidates others while playing the victim, especially of a perceived social injustice.” This is a particularly...
The War Against Israel Came to My Campus, But We Won’t Be Silenced
On Wednesday, November 15, the Binghamton University Zionist Organization (BUZO) hosted an educational event in the university’s lecture hall with a pro-Israel speaker from StandWithUs. As members of the BUZO executive board arrived to prepare the space for the event, they were met with a shocking sight: The room was...
UMass Amherst normalizes antisemitism
On Oct. 7, the day of the Hamas massacre that left 1,200 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly, brutally murdered, the “Palestine” correspondent for The Nation, Mohammed El-Kurd, responded to the gruesome reports by tweeting, “What is happening in occupied Palestine is a response to weeks and months and years...
זה לא מקארתיזם, זה טרוריזם
לאחרונה, השעיית סטודנטים המביעים אהדה כלפי חמאס הוביל לוויכוחים בנוגע לחופש הביטוי, חירויות האזרח והצורך להגן על ישראל מפני איומים פוטנציאליים. עיתון הארץ ותא הסטודנטים של חד”ש באוניברסיטת תל אביב טוענים שנטפלים לאותם סטודנטים, לגביהם ישנן ראיות ברורות על תמיכה במעשי הטרור של החמאס ב- 7 באוקטובר ברשתות החברתיות. אין...
CAMERA on Campus on the Apathetic Response from UMass Chancellor on Concerns from the Jewish Community
Editor’s note: For context, we recommend you read both the letter submitted by concerned students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst to Chancellor Javier Reyes on the morning of November 10th, 2023, and Chancellor Reyes’ Response delivered a few hours later, which can be found here. CAMERA on Campus expresses...
An Open Letter to My Fellow Tarheels
I have been drafted into the war against misinformation. On October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, ruthlessly murdering, as reported by NPR, upwards of 1400 people. Over 240 people were taken hostage, many of them children or Holocaust survivors. This was filmed in real-time by Hamas on cell phones...