On May 10, Students for Justice in Palestine disrupted a pro-Israel event at UC Irvine with hateful shouting and vitriolic chants, preventing IDF reservists from continuing with the panel until the group left. As a result, the campus administration slapped SJP with a two-year probation and affirmed the university’s commitment to “protect everyone’s right...
The Story of a Minority: Jonathan Elkhoury Tours US Campuses
Being in a situation where you are the minority can be challenging. It is something unique that can be shared with others to allow them to better understand a situation they might never be in. Jonathan Nizar Elkhoury has been a minority his whole life, no matter where he’s been in...
Lebanese, Christian, Gay — and Fully Israeli
Jonathan Elkhoury represents multiple minority groups in Israel. He told his life story to a rapt group of students at the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation on Dec. 1. His father fought for the South Lebanese Army against the Palestine Liberation Organization and fled to Israel when the Israel Defense...
A Lebanese Refugee in Israel
On November 3rd, Eagles for Israel hosted Jonathan Elkhoury at Boston College, as part of his CAMERA on Campus Fall 2016 tour. The event was co-sponsored by ZOA. As a gay, Christian-Arab who fled Lebanon with his family to Israel when he was a teen, Jonathan defies the narrative that...
What you need to know about Israel’s Christian minority
In the Gatestone Institute’s August report on Christian persecution, Raymond Ibrahim described the brutal, rampant and global Islamic persecution of Christians and other minorities, including violations of religious freedom, harassment, detention, torture, and executions. The accounts are too abundant and tragic to list in full, as many involve gruesome persecution,...
Jonathan Elkhoury and the Power of Dialogue
On January 28th, Jonathan Elkhoury embarked on his North American campus tour in partnership with CAMERA. “I lost one country, I won’t lose the other one. Today I’m starting one of my most important journeys – a journey in the United States about the truth,” he remarked on his Facebook page. Jonathan...
Jonathan Elkhoury Breaks Down Barriers on Campus Tour
CAMERA speaker Jonathan Elkhoury just completed a two week tour spanning 10 campuses. Read his amazing testament posted to Facebook below on the power of sharing the facts and being a proud Zionist. How do I define success? Success for me is knowing that the audience pro-Palestinian activists, supporters of BDS activists SJP...