The group was recognized for its outstanding campus activism This year, UCF’s Knights for Israel was honored with the David Bar-Ilan Award for Outstanding Campus Activism. This award signified a tremendous amount of accomplishments for the organization. When CAMERA called with the great news, we understood why we were being...
Meet Ben Suster: Current Campus Coordinator, Former CAMERA Fellow
Prior to the summer of 2014, CAMERA campus coordinator Ben Suster was politically indifferent towards Israel. Although he had been there multiple times before to visit family and participate in programs, this trip was different. He landed a few days before the bodies of the three murdered yeshiva boys were...
CAMERA Fellows in Focus: Jason Frances
The CAMERA Fellowship supports student leaders in developing and strengthening their pro-Israel activism on campus. With the school year underway, InFocus is giving you an inside look into the lives of the 2016-17 CAMERA Fellows who are working hard to promote the facts about Israel on campus. Meet Jason Frances. Currently a senior at University of Central Florida...
Muslim Zionist Kasim Hafeez Goes to UCF
Over the course of this semester we, members of the the University of Central Florida’s Emet for Israel supported group, Knights for Israel, realized we were growing much quicker than anticipated and we wanted to continue building on this momentum. We decided that bringing in another speaker and not generating too...
Visiting the Sunshine State
Campus Coordinator Tatiana-Rose Becker recently returned from a campus tour of Florida, visiting all six of the CAMERA supported groups in the state: ShalomFIU at Florida International University, EMET Israel at University of Miami, Owls for Israel at Florida Atlantic University, Bulls for Israel at University of South Florida, Knights...
Bassem Eid Tours with CAMERA
Recently, Palestinian human rights activist, Bassem Eid went on a tour with CAMERA. During his tour, Eid went to dozens of campuses across the United States to discuss his experiences living under the Palestinian Authority. Below are pictures and testaments from CAMERA students about Eid’s tour. To read more CAMERA...
It’s time to stop ignoring racism in Israel
As defenders of Israel, we are constantly emphasizing that Israel promotes unconditional co-existence and would never stand for such an awful establishment like institutional discrimination. However, what if I said we were wrong and that Israel does, in fact, actively permit prejudice to flourish? We as educators commit a severe...
A CAMERA Alum Shares: My Life As An Oleh
This piece was contributed by Ari Hoffman, a CAMERA CAP alumnus from the University of Central Florida. Ari made Aliyah after graduating in May, 2014. Ari’s account of living in Israel during Operation Protective Edge is part of our campaign, Witnesses of History. It has been an interesting few months...