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Jun 27, 2018, 9:36 PM

BDS at Cambridge: Activism blinded by self-righteousness?

Student activism at the University of Cambridge surrounding the most recent events in Gaza has, of late, been severely problematic. Beginning with a rally on Kings Parade, which included calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and drew comparisons between Israeli soldiers and...

May 23, 2018, 8:00 PM

The intersectionality of anti-Semitism

Last week’s emergency rally for Gaza, where over 100 University of Cambridge students gathered to call for an end to the “massacre” in Gaza was neither surprising nor shocking. The decision of the protest’s organisers to neither issue an apology or clarification regarding their stance...

Apr 11, 2018, 1:11 PM

Abbas repeating anti-Semitic mantras is not conducive to peace

While many heard Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas’s March 19th response to US Ambassador David Friedman’s comments regarding Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the significance of these comments appears to have been missed. In calling Ambassador Friedman “a son of a dog settler”, it was...

Nov 20, 2017, 4:28 PM

The misnomer that is freedom of speech at Cambridge University

Concern over the protection of freedom of speech on campus manifested itself once again, this time at a spectacle at the University of Cambridge. It was there, where a panel discussion took place on the role of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in...

May 12, 2017, 12:18 PM

A positive end to an anti-Semitic incident in Cambridge

The recent positive ending to an all too unfortunate anti-semitic incident, which took place last October at the University of Cambridge, has attracted much attention. Some would argue, much more attention than it deserves, given the fact that nobody was hurt and that the entire...

Apr 10, 2017, 12:35 AM

Academics cannot excuse away inability to tackle anti-Semitism

Last month, many members of the pro-Israel community celebrated what was perceived as a victory on UK college campuses due to the cancellation of a number of Israel Apartheid Week events. While this was indeed a victory, in the sense that the planned events were...

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About Me

Shlomo Roiter-Jesner is a second-year undergraduate student at Cambridge University reading HSPS, with a focus in Politics and International Relations. Originally from New York, Shlomo moved to Jerusalem where he served as an officer in the IDF Unit for Strategic Planning. At Cambridge, Shlomo is an executive committee member of Chabad on Campus and is the CAMERA campus fellow.