The anti-Israel indoctrination of high school students in Newton, Massachusetts continues. A teacher inculcates students with a deeply flawed history of the Arab-Israeli conflict in a senior elective class, while the superintendent assures parents that all is well.
Mapheze Ahmad Yousef Saleh is as a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). She also happens to be the daughter of Ahmed Yousef, who served as a top adviser for the terrorist organization Hamas under Ismail Haniyeh’s leadership. In fact, Mapheze herself has worked for the designated terrorist organization.
Napoleon Bonaparte, himself a giant of history, famously remarked that “history is a set of lies agreed upon.” Centuries later, the American Historical Association is on the precipice of taking the French revolutionary’s quip literally.
Since the end of 2023, the extent of anti-American, anti-Israel, and antisemitic radicalism on college campuses has become an issue of national importance. In Congress, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce has even launched an investigation as “antisemitic mobs rule over so-called elite universities…” How did we get here? A new CAMERA study, “Ivy League Propaganda: How Brown University Radicalized Students After October 7,” helps answer this question.
As we look ahead to 2025, we are more committed than ever to what we believe is a foremost necessity of our time – fighting the battle for truth against lies about Israel and the Jewish people in an increasingly complex and dangerous world.
CAMERA stands unreservedly behind Applefield, who is a 2024-25 CAMERA on Campus fellow. We’re proud of her article and of her ability to engage in public dialogue in a civil, fact-based manner.
Academic freedom is an important value that must be protected. That includes protection against those who would exploit their freedom to undermine academic integrity and the academic freedom of others from within. At Cornell University, that threat is emerging.
A call for book-burning at this year’s National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention has laid bare a growing effort by anti-Zionist activists to control, by whatever means, the narrative on topics they consider contentious.
A petition aiming to expel CAMERA from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention is based on misleading claims and seeks to silence Jewish perspectives in education. CAMERA responds, standing firm in its commitment to promoting accurate, inclusive resources for educators.
The banishment of Jewish students from campus spaces clearly impedes their free speech, yet AP's article supposedly covering the chilling of campus free speech said not one word about this dark phenomenon.
Developing the ability to engage in vigorous debate and oppositional advocacy is central to legal education. So why is the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) so averse to a diversity of opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
