A nonprofit that counters anti-Israel bias in education has launched a new website containing resources that it claims will help teachers, students, and families fight antisemitism at K-12 schools and college campuses across the United States.
Announced on Wednesday by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), CAMERA-edu.org shares methods for tracking curricular bias, materials on the ancient and modern history of Israel, and includes a page showing potential legal options for those who have experienced antisemitic discrimination that was motivated by anti-Zionism.
“In 2021, we founded the CAMERA Education Institute to fight for academic integrity and combat attempts to turn America’s schools into breeding grounds for hatred and turmoil,” said CAMERA representative Steven Stotsky. “The website is a hub of essential information and support. No one student or family can do it alone. The CAMERA institute unites people from across America who seek to restore accurate, fact-based educational content to our nation’s schools.”
CAMERA executive director Andrea Levin noted that the organizations has “decades of experience in countering bias and falsehoods in education materials” and described the new website as an “exciting expansion” of those efforts.
“We’re finding enthusiastic interest across the country in what we offer,” Levin added.
The website’s launch comes amid a deluge of news reports, lawsuits, and federal inquiries prompted by anti-Zionist and antisemitic activity on college campuses.
Earlier this month, the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) began investigating State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz to determine whether it refused to intervene when a campus group expelled Jewish students from its membership because they are Zionists, and in April OCR opened an investigation of George Washington University as well, following allegations that administrators allowed a professor, Lara Sheehi, to browbeat and discriminate against her Jewish students. In April, OCR for the first time ever applied Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to anti-Zionist discrimination.
