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UC-Davis: Advocates on All Sides of Middle East Conflict Call for a Ceasefire
by E. Ashley Wright
 In addition to students returning to the U.S. after being evacuated from the American University at Beirut, professors planning teaching stints or studies have had to put off plans to travel to the region. Arbel Bedak, sophomore music and religious studies major at UC-Davis, returned from Israel on July 12. He said he feels Israel is protecting itself as it should be. (State Hornet)
East Carolina: Two Students Receive the Opportunity to Visit Israel this Month
by Kimberly Bellamy
 Chris Federici and Joel Carter, political science majors, will travel to Israel this month to represent their organization, Foundation for Defense of Democracies. According to Federici, FDD is a non-partisan, anti-terrorism organization that was created in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. The group is based out of the District of Columbia and funds various anti-terrorism programs for students to educate them on the history of terrorism as well as give them tools and methods for diminishing terrorist activities, Federici said. (East Carolinian)
Kansas: Bombing Affects Native Israel Student
by Tom Slaughter
 Senior Daniel Coldham said he does not want to downplay the situation in Israel. He said the situation was intense and the whole north is like a ghost town, but the rest of the country simply continues with its business. Coldham said that outsiders only see what is on the news - fighting in the streets of decaying cities and missiles exploding on night-vision network cameras; therefore, they perceive the entire country to be a war-zone. (Daily Kansan)
North Carolina: Student to Continue with his Fellowship in Israel Despite Fighting
by Justin Vick
 As fighting between Israeli troops and Hizballah guerrillas intensified this week, so has Andrew Brown's interest in visiting Israel. Months before guerrillas seized two Israeli soldiers on July 12, Brown was selected for a one-year fellowship to study terrorist threats directed at America and allied democracies. This includes a two-week trip to Israel, where students interact with military, intelligence and political officials, as well as tour the country's military bases and border positions. (Independent Tribune)
Penn State: Student in Israel Remains Calm
by Travis Larchuk
 Junior Vikki Korchagin said the news media in the United States doesn't give a completely accurate picture of what's happening in Israel. She said the conflict has brought on a renewed sense of patriotism in Israel, with companies handing out bumper stickers and posting billboards with the slogan "we will win." "No one has left out of the nine people on the internship; everyone has stayed," she said. (Digital Collegian)
Rutgers Trip Connects Students to Israel
by Susie Wahrman
 A month ago, if Naomi Gold, a Rutgers sophomore, had heard about missiles hitting Israel, she would have reacted less strongly. "Before, the places in Israel were just names to me," she said. Although this Orthodox Jew was brought up to love Israel, until she participated in a Rutgers trip to Israel at the end of June, she had never actually been to the country. The Rutgers trip occurred only a few weeks before the missiles from Lebanon began to strike. "Now the idea of losing the land is so much scarier to me," Gold said. (New Jersey Jewish Standard)
Israel Backed by Army of Cyber-Soldier Students
by Yonit Farago
In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special megaphone software www.giyus.org that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate. Jonny Cline, of the international student group, said that Jewish students and youth groups with their understanding of the web environment were ideally placed to present another side to the debate. (Times-UK)
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DePaul: CAIR Gets Professor Suspended For "Offending" Muslim Students
by Jim Kouri
 Professor Thomas Klocek was suspended from De Paul University following a campaign launched by pro-Palestinian student groups and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Klocek once was engaged in heated discussion with two Muslim student groups at a Student Involvement Fair on DePaul's campus. He believes in Israel's right to exist as a sovereign Jewish state within safe and secure borders. (Post Chronicle)
Harvard: As Violence Continues, Hillel Decides To Postpone Student Trip to Israel
by Claire Guehenno and Evan Jacobs
 The organizers of an annual three-week long Netivot Fellowship trip to Israel have decided to postpone this year's trip because of Israel's ongoing conflict with Lebanon. The Netivot Fellowship annually sends around 20 students from Harvard and Yale to Israel as part of a year-long program whose mission is to develop Jewish leaders. (Harvard Crimson)
See also Brigham Young Cancels Student Programs at Jerusalem Center Because of Escalating Violence
Maryland: Israeli-Palestinian "Odd Couple" Tackles the "Conflict" and the Dishes
by Joshua Yaffa
 Though Israeli Edward (Edy) Kaufman and Palestinian Manuel Hassassian teach a summer course together at the University of Maryland on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their discussions rarely end when the class bell rings. Often they will continue on through the dinner hour at the house the two share near campus - as part of a long-running experiment in coexistence and cooperation both inside and outside the classroom. (Forward)
Israel Conflict Through Penn Eyes
by Ross Avila
 While most college students are getting news about the Israeli war with Hizballah on television, some Penn students are witnessing the conflict firsthand. Life in the north of Israel is continually disrupted by rocket attacks but students and University staff are finding a surreal sense of normalcy in Jerusalem as the conflict rages less than 100 miles to their north. "Life up north is incredibly disrupted - there's no food in the supermarkets, no money in the ATMs," said associate director of Hillel Mike Uram. "But life in Jerusalem is very normal. It creates a strange reality." (Daily Pennsylvanian)
Portland Community College: Trip Reveals "Importance of Jewish State"
by Alison Lazareck
 When one Portland Community College student looks back on this summer, the highlight will not be days spent basking in the sun, but rather the time he rode a camel. In June, 18-year-old Daniel Mroz, a Southridge High School graduate, spent two weeks traveling with other college students through Poland and Israel. Mroz participated in a March of the Living trip, the mission of which is to educate young Jews about the Holocaust and the birth of the State of Israel, two of the most significant events in their religious and cultural history. (Jewish Review)
Tel Aviv: Experts: Conflict to Determine Israel's Status in Region
by Moran Zelikovich
 According to a document published Wednesday by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, "the way this conflict (in Lebanon) ends will have great ramifications for the State of Israel's status in the Middle East." "Beyond its direct influence on the situation on the Lebanon border, it will have great influence also on Israel's situation and on the possibilities which it will face in the Palestinian arena and opposite the Arab world in general," the document went on to say. (Ynet News)
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