Contributed by CAMERA intern Lilia Gaufberg On October 13th, CAMERA fellow Jeremy Ginsberg, in conjunction with Gauchos for Israel, an EMET for Israel group, hosted an event titled ‘Hamsas not Hamas’ at the Santa Barbara Hillel. The goal of this event was to decorate as many Hamsas as possible, and...
University of California, Santa Barbara hosts Israeli Café Night!
Contributed by CAMERA intern Lilia Gaufberg On October 8th at 7:30 PM, Jeremy Ginsberg, the CAMERA fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in conjunction with Gauchos United for Israel, an EMET for Israel group, hosted an Israeli Café Night at the UCSB Hillel. This event was the opening program of the...
UCSB Presents: Anat Berko: The Smarter Bomb
Contributed by CAMERA intern Lilia Gaufberg On October 23rd 2015, Anat Berko was hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara Hillel by Gauchos United for Israel, an EMET for Israel group. Anat presented her research on women and children who become suicide bombers, as well as those who recruit...
GUFI presents: Noam Bedein
Contributed by CAMERA intern Lilia Gaufberg On February 18th, Gauchos for Israel (GUFI), the EMET for Israel group at the University of California, Santa Barbara, hosted Noam Bedein at the UCSB Hillel. Noam is a photojournalist and the founder and director of the Sderot Media Center. At this event, Noam...
Assi Azar Speaks to Students at UC Santa Barbara
Assi Azar, an openly gay Israeli television personality, spent much of April on tour with CAMERA, visiting college campuses around the US to speak to students about LGBTQ rights in Israel. His most recent visit was to the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he gave an insightful presentation...
Divestment at UCSB: Round Three
Contributed by CAMERA Fellow Jeremy Ginsberg For the third year in a row, BDS came during spring quarter at UC Santa Barbara, and I am glad to say that it was defeated in only one meeting instead of in the multiple senate meetings my fellow students have seen for the...
Understanding a Terrorist
On October 22nd, Israel was rocked with yet another attack on its citizens. A Palestinian man rammed his car into a crowded light rail stop, killing two people: a 3-month old American girl and a Ecuadorian woman who had recently moved to Israel to finish her conversion to Judaism. I...