Every year in the diaspora anti-Israel activists on university campuses globally unite to host ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’. Concerningly, as opposed to promoting any productive (let alone constructive) solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, it instead fosters an unpragmatic approach, cultivating a hostile environment for many Jewish and Israeli students. Exacerbating the...
Equal Tears for Jews in America and Israel
In the past two decades, some of the most prominent universities in the US have hosted their despicable apartheid weeks, an attempt to delegitimize the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their historic homeland, on the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian initiated this horrendous tradition in 2002; it...
Israeli Apartheid Week Drives Divisiveness on Campus
Just like BDS, Israeli Apartheid Week has become a large part of the conversation about Israel on campuses across the country for many years. Similar to BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions), Israeli Apartheid Week is full of factually incorrect and misleading information. Israeli Apartheid Week was brought to our campus...
Slamming ‘Zionists’ and ‘Zionism’ Writ Large at Harvard
On April 2, I attended Harvard University’s Palestine Solidarity Committee’s event titled “IAW 2019: Black-Palestinian Solidarity,” which was held during the university’s Israel Apartheid Week. The featured speakers —Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill, Princeton University emeritus professor Cornell West and activist/attorney Dima Khalidi—spent nearly two hours regurgitating slander, conspiracy theories...
KCL Students Threaten Legal Action Against Student Union
London, England (Sunday, February 26th) — The King’s College London (KCL) Israel Society is considering legal action after the KCL Student Union (KCLSU) promoted ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ (IAW) in a newsletter emailed to all KCL students on February 23rd. There is no precedent for the KCLSU to promote student society...
When Apartheid Week Goes Low, We Go High
This week, Kings College London Israel Society, a CAMERA-supported group, is hosting an event entitled “Forbidden Lines, New Friendships – The Case for Humanitarian Diplomacy in Syria”. The event may also make a small piece of history, as it is believed to be the first time that an Israeli and a Syrian have...
Being Jewish and pro-Israel in college: 2010 vs. 2015
This week, I was able to talk to many Jewish students from around the world (including a friend from my alma mater who is visiting Israel) about what it is like to be a Jewish student on their university campuses. I graduated from college just about a year and a...
Behind the Scenes of Declare Your Freedom
Contributed by CAMERA intern Aaron Hunt Three years ago, two college freshmen, Maor Shapira, an Israeli Jew and former lone soldier in the IDF, and Chloé Simone Valdary, a Christian African-American who grew up in New Orleans, met at a pro-Israel lecture at Tulane University. They talked after the lecture...